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Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome Poetry_Gift_Guide smoked a single cigarette beforeA striking, nuanced biography of Nerothe controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesarsand a vivid portrait of ancient Rome Exciting and provocative . . . Nero is a pleasure to read.Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium The Roman emperor Neros name has long been a byword for cruelty, decadence, and despotism. As the stories go, he set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it