In 65 A.D., the largest and most threatening conspiracy of all early imperial times was woven in Rome, aimed at the assassination of Nero. Its leader was the popular Gaius Piso, a prominent aristocrat, and alongside him was the commander of the Praetorians, Faius Rufus, with his senior officers, the passionate poet Lucan, some say Seneca, the famous Stoic philosopher and advisor to Nero, and a host of others, even women – rare for the time.

They carefully devised a plan of action and set the date for the attempt. But on the eve of the… Closely based on the masterful narrative of the great historian Tacitus, in Dio Cassius and Suetonius, an interesting and unknown to the Greek public, page of Roman history.