Word: nero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a decade of dickering for the rights, Metro was filming Quo Vadis? (Where Are You Going?), Henry Sienkiewicz' flamboyant old (1895) novel of Nero's Rome. Filmed three times before on a much smaller scale (once by the French and twice by the Italians...
...last word belongs to science and cannot be anticipated. At the present time a commission of reputable archeologists is preparing the publication of its scientific conclusions on the discoveries . . . In the meantime, one may observe that the excavations have confirmed convincingly the Roman tradition which closely connected Nero's Circus and the Vatican burial ground-or, in other words, the place where St. Peter was executed and the place where he was buried...
...Nero started the fire that burned Rome down--that's the story that went around--but actually you can put the blame on a sweet little courtesan named Phoenicium, to be played by Brooks Emmons, Radcliffe '50, in "Pseudolus," this year's Latin play...