Wine, Women & Slaughter ; Dormice for a Starter, an Orgy for Main Course -- And Christians Burned Alive As a Sideshow. As Nero's Roman Pleasure Palace Is Unearthed, What Really Went On at the Emperor's Toga Parties ... [Eire Region]

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DUSK, and as the shadows lengthen over the streets of ancient Rome, the early evening quiet is shattered by a chorus of piercing screams. It is the beginning of another of Emperor Nero's infamous orgies.

Peering out of the palace windows, the emperor's drunk guests are confronted by a shocking sight: a dozen terrified men, smeared with tar and bound to wooden stakes. And then, at a signal from Nero, they are set alight, their agonised cries accompanied by the whoops of the halfnaked dancing girls.

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Wine, Women & Slaughter ; Dormice for a Starter, an Orgy for Main Course -- And Christians Burned Alive As a Sideshow. As Nero's Roman Pleasure Palace Is Unearthed, What Really Went On at the Emperor's Toga Parties ... [Eire Region]

Burning these Christians, Nero jokes to his guests, is the perfect way to illuminate his magnificent gardens.

In Nero's sadistic world, such barbarity was commonplace. And it was at its most inventive and acute at the parties staged in his fabled rotating dining room.

This wondrous structure -- part of his magnificent Golden House palace -- ...

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