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“... too, offers a wry angle on the triumphal procession, best observed, he suggests, from (in Maria Wyke’s paraphrase) ‘the vantage point of his mistress’s embrace’. For Wyke, the mistresses celebrated in this poetry are no less fictive than Octavian’s model of Cleopatra. The first half of The Roman ...”

“... exorcism and the intervention of the Madonna before the area was made safe and the church of Santa Maria del Popolo could be built in the same place. We get occasional snapshots of what Nero was up to in the Infernal Years from clerical handbooks. One account has him bathing in a seething pool of molten gold, from where he calls money-loving lawyers to join ...”