Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known for his tumultuous reign as Roman emperor from AD 54 to AD 68, built the "Golden House" whose archaeological treasures continue to astonish ...

He had succeeded where Caesar had failed ... As Tacitus said, "Dangerous crimes bring ample reward." Claudius was dead. Nero was Emperor. This would prove interesting.

The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a chunk of Egyptian blue ingot, an example of the opulence of the palace itself.

Pp. xvii, 357. Illus., maps, tables, stemma, notes, biblio., index. $32.00 paper. ISBN: 978-0-521-70825-8 In Claudius Caesar Osgood gives us not so much a biography of the fourth emperor, as a look at ...