# Episode CLXXXIX - Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (Live in Canberra)

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Podcast: [Emperors of Rome](https://stenobird.com/podcast/emperors-of-rome-1057029)
Published: 2022-05-20T08:04:28+00:00
Episode link: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/marketing/assets/podcasts/emperors/220520-nero-live.mp3
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On the night of 18 July, 64 CE, a fire broke out in the Circus Maximus at Rome. It raged for nine days, destroying or damaging ten of the city’s fourteen regions. Was the fire just a terrible accident? Or was it deliberately lit, either by dissident Christians or by the emperor Nero, who allegedly sang while Rome burned? Recorded on 12th April 2022, in front of a live audience at the Australian National University. Now funding on Kickstarter: Agricola (the podcast miniseries) . Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University).

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