Nero’s Domus Aurea – the golden house

Nero’s Domus Aurea – the golden house

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Nero’s first home as emperor was the “Domus Transitoria” which gained its name by virtue of linking the imperial properties on the Esquiline hill (Fagutal-Oppius on image below) which Augustus had inherited from Maecenas with the traditional site on the Palatine hill (hence the root of the word “palace”). The great fire of Rome in […]

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