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The Telegraph

How Roman ‘cancel culture’ meant Nero’s reputation was fiddled after his death

Nero’s notorious reputation is to be rehabilitated by the British Museum as curators reveal how the emperor was traduced by “cancel culture” in the Roman Empire. Known for being the emperor who fiddled while Rome burned, Nero’s brutal reign between 54 and 68 AD included persecuting Christians and matricide, the killing of his mother. His statues were quickly destroyed in the aftermath of his overthrow and subsequent suicide at the age of 30, and contemporary portrayals paint him as a corrupt and incestuous murderer. But British Museum curators say Nero was instead one of the first victims of “cancel culture”, with reasons behind his downfall largely out of his control. Monuments toppled following his leadership have been described as the 1st-century equivalent of “statue wars”. A new exhibition at the museum will seek to restore the reputation of Rome’s fifth emperor by presenting him as a populist adored by the common people but disparaged by the patrician propaganda of a “tiny elite”. Roman statue wars Dr Thorsten Opper, Ancient Rome curator at the British Museum, told The Telegraph: “It’s weird how topical it has suddenly become in the last few years. Cancel culture and statue wars, that all resonates so much. “Statue wars is perhaps most appropriate, what we saw with Colston’s statue in Bristol and various monuments in the US. “As soon as Nero was dead there were jubilant people in the street toppling his statues, de ..

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