Nero - Legend of a Monster

From the back of the video:
37 years after Christ a man was born in Rome whose name persists to this day as a byword for evil, cruelty, and the "madness of the Caesars". So frightful are the cruelties attributed tot him that in the Middle Ages he was considered to be the Devil. Pope Paschal III (1099-1118) caused a church to be erected on his grave, for fear of this monster in human form returning from the dead. The murder of his wife and his mother are just two of the accusations made against him. A madman, besotted with absolute, god-like power, unfit to be a potentate but more than cruel enough, his name was Nero. Whom do we have to thank for this assessment of Nero; who created this Nero in our heads? It was the Roman chroniclers, men such as Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius. But can we trust what they say? Or was Nero the victim of a historical conspiracy?
The documentation paints a picture of an unpredictable, capricious ruler, who abhorred cruelty in his presence, forbade gladiatorial contests, loved art and culture, but set the scene for the murder of his mother as if producing a play. Join the search for the keyto the riddle: who was Nero really?
Around 1995 Time Life's Lost Civilizations were released on video, there were intially 10 episodes which are listed on imdb here: www.imdb.com/t...
These first 10 episodes are public domain and have been uploaded by Time Life here:
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These are readily available on VHS, there are always tapes of them selling for a few quid. But while browsing for them I stumbled across 14 further episodes. Now it's taken nearly 10 years for me to get all of them. The episodes I have now transferred for this channel are The Huns (7940111), Hannibal (7940112), The Vikings (7940113), Crete (7940114), Alexander the Great (7940115), Cleopatra (7940116), Nero (7940117), Ramses (7940118), Charlemagne (7940119), Richard the Lionheart (7940120), The Phoenicians (7940121), China's First Emperor (7940122), Akhenaten and Nefertit (7940123) and Nebuchadnezzar (7940124). The numbers in brackets refer to the code on the spine. These tapes do not have barcodes / ISBN numbers. Episodes of Lost Voices will follow at a later date.
I've used a JVC D560 with nicam bass boost on a few tapes and a Toshiba DVD-R recorder to transfer them to DVD. A couple of them have audio dropouts near the start and the odd flicker. If better versions become available I will replace them.

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Good Stuff 👍🏻

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Thanks Chris