The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City (44 page)

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and interpolations
 
House of the Vestals
 
Hunting Theater, The (Colosseum)
 
Hurricanes
 
 
Icelus
 
Informants
 
Interpolations, historian
 
Interrogation
 
Isea (temples to Isis)
 
Iseum Campense
 
Isis.
See
Cult of Isis
 
Isthmian Games
 
Janiculum
 
Jerusalem
 
and Jewish Revolt(
see also
Jewish Revolt)
 
Jesus of Nazareth
 
Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles
 
Jewish priests.
See also
Jewish Revolt
 
Jewish Revolt.
See also
Jewish priests
 
Jews
 
and Christianity
 
Joseph bar Matthias (aka Flavius Josephus)
 
and Great Fire, account of
 
and Jewish priests
 
and Jewish Revolt
 
and Poppaea Sabina
 
Josephus, Flavius.
See
Joseph bar Matthias
 
Judea
 
Jewish Revolt in (
see also
Jewish Revolt)
 
Julia (daughter of Germanicus Caesar)
 
Julian (centurion)
 
Juno
 
Juvenal
 
Juvenile Games
 
 
Kalends of March
 
 
Laecanius, Gaius
 
Laelia (vestal)
 
Landlords
 
and arson
 
and greed
 
Lateranus, Plautius
 
Lavinium
 
Legions
 
Lepida (wife of Cassius)
 
Lepidus, Marcus
 
Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius
 
Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius (triumvir)
 
Levi
 
Levites
 
Libraries
 
Libya
 
Licinius, Marcus
 
Locusta (sorceress)
 
Looting
 
Lucan.
See
Lucanus
 
Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (aka Lucan)
 
and conspiracy
 
death of
 
and interrogation
 
and Martial
 
Lucilius
 
Lucius Aemilius Pailus
 
Ludi Apollinares
 
Ludi Magni.
See
Great Games
 
Ludi Plebii.
See
Plebian Games
 
Ludi Romani (Roman Games).
See
Great Games
 
Ludi Victoriae Caesaris
 
Lugdunum
 
Luke, Saint
 
Luna temple
 
Lyre
 
 
Maecenas, Gaius
 
Mail service
 
Mamertine Prison
 
Marcellus Eprius
 
Marcellus (senator)
 
Marcus Julius Vestinus Atticus
 
and Great Fire
 
and water supply
 
Marcus Volusius
 
Marius, Publius
 
Marriage
 
Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialus)
 
Mary (mother of Jesus)
 
Mauriscus (senator)
 
Megalesia Festival
 
Megalesian Games
 
Mela, Annaeus
 
Mentana
 
Messalina (wife of Claudius)
 
Milichus
 
Military
 
arms and equipment
 
operations
 
tactics
 
Millaria
 
Milvian Bridge
 
Mint
 
Montanus
 
Months, names of
 
 
Napoleon Bonaparte
 
Natalis, Antonius
 
and conspiracy
 
and immunity
 
and Seneca
 
Navigium Isidis
 
Neapolis, singing contest in.
See also
Singing contest
 
Nemean Games
 
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
 
as actor
 
and Agrippina, murder of
 
as arsonist
 
as artist
 
and Britannicus, murder of
 
and building regulations
 
as charioteer
 
as chief priest
(pontifex maximus)
 
and Christian martyrs
 
demise of
 
as dice player
 
and Egypt, fascination with (
see also
Cult of Isis)
 
engineering feats of
 
and executions
 
fall of
 
fascination with
 
and gladiatorial contest
 
and Great Fire(
see also
Great Fire; Rome)
 
and imperial dignity
 
insecurities of
 
as lyre player
 
military operations of
 
name of
 
as new Alexander the Great
 
physical description of
 
plots and revolts against (
see also
Conspiracy)
 
as poet
 
and pseudo Neros
 
and public opinion
 
reputation of
 
and “returned to life” legend
 
rumor mongering against
 
sexuality of
 
as singer (
See also
Singing contests)
 
spirituality of
 
and stage fright
 
suicide of
 
and Vatican circus
 
and water-organ
 
Neronia
 
Neronian Games (aka Quinquennial Games)
 
Nero’s Pool
(stagnum Neronis)
 
Nerva, Marcus Cocceius
 
and Triumphal Decorations
 
New Year’s Day
 
Niger, Veianius
 
Night Watch.
See
Cohortes Vigiles
 
Nile River
 
Nomentum
 
Noncitizens
 
and crucifixion
 
and cult of Isis
 
See also
Citizenship
 
Nymphidia
 
Nymphidius Sabinus, Gaius
 
execution of
 
and Praetorian Cohorts, defection of
 
and rumor mongering
 
 
Obelisk
 
Octavia Augustus (wife of Nero)
 
and adultery
 
execution of
 
and Poppaea Sabina
 
Octavian
 
Olympic Games
 
Oracle of Delphi
 
Ostia
 
Ostorius Sabinus
 
Ostorius Scapula, Marius
 
Ostorius Scapula, Publius
 
Otho, Marcus Salvius
 
and conspiracy
 
and cult of Isis
 
as emperor
 
Ovid
 
 
Pacorus, King (of Media)
 
Paetus, Thrasea
 
Palace of Herod
 
Palatine Hill
 
and Great Fire
 
and Vestinus
 
Palatium
 
Pallas
 
Pammenes
 
Pancratium
 
Panhellenic Games
 
Papinius, Sextus
 
Parade
 
Parthian shot
 
Parthians
 
Patrobius
 
Patronage
 
Paul, Saint (the apostle; aka Paulus of Tarsus; Saul of Tarsus)
 
and Christianity
 
and citizenship
 
death of
 
and Jewish Revolt
 
Paulinus, Suetonius
 
Paulus of Tarsus.
See
Paul, Saint
 
Pedius Secundus
 
Pedo, Albiovanus
 
Pelago
 
Peter, Saint (the apostle; aka Simeon of Galilee; Simon)
 
death of
 
and Jewish Revolt
 
Petilius
 
Petronius, Gaius (aka Gaius Petronius Arbiter)
 
Phalanx of Alexander the Great
 
Phaon
 
Pharsalus, Battle of
 
Philo Judeaus
 
Phoebus
 
Piso, Gaius
 
and Agrippina, murder of
 
and Antonia
 
and conspiracy
 
as Nero’s successor
 
and Seneca
 
suicide of

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