Skip to main content
Home

User menu logged out

  • Subscribe
  • Sign in

History Today September 2025

Subscription
Offers

Give a Gift

Main menu

  • Home
  • The Magazine
  • Subscribe
  • Buy the Current Issue
  • Explore the Digital Archive
  • Institutions
  • Reviews
  • Sign in
Home

Mini header menu

  • Search
  • Magazine
  • Latest
  • Subscribe

Subscribe

Cartoon

Alternative Histories - Rome, 64 AD

The great conflagration, with Nero playing his lyre, as reimagined by Rob Murray.

Rob Murray | Published in 09 Apr 2013

- More of Rob Murray's Alternative History cartoons

Roman EmpireItaly

Related Articles

galen_bust.jpg
Galen and the Great Fire of Rome
galen_relief.jpg
Galen and the Great Fire of Rome

Popular articles

Acclamation of Dom Pedro I, emperor of Brazil, at the camp of Santa Anna, in Rio de Janeiro, Jean Baptiste Debret, c.1834-49. New York Public Library. Public Domain.
Empire of Exceptions: The Making of Modern Brazil
‘A Bit of War History: The Veteran’, Thomas Waterman Wood, 1866. Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Public Domain.
‘The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole’s America’ review

Recently published

‘A Bit of War History: The Veteran’, Thomas Waterman Wood, 1866. Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Public Domain.
‘The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole’s America’ review
Passers-by looking at a modern sculpture in the window of a Wimpy Bar in London, c.1961. Photograph by John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins. © Estate of John Hopkins.
Wimpy vs McDonald’s: The Battle of the Burgers
Henry Kissinger poses for a portrait in the Situation Room in the basement of the West Wing at the White House, Washington, DC, 1969. Photo © Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Getty Images.
‘Zbig’ by Edward Luce and ‘Henry Kissinger’ by Jérémie Gallon review

Most read

  1. ‘The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole’s America’ review
  2. Wimpy vs McDonald’s: The Battle of the Burgers
  3. The Lin Biao Incident
  4. Did It Matter That Elizabeth I Was a Woman?
  5. ‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review
X
Get Miscellanies, our free weekly long read, in your inbox every week

Footer menu

  • About
  • Masthead
  • Contact
  • Jobs
  • Advertising
  • RSS feeds
  • Submit an Article
  • Back Issues
  • Binders
  • Cookie policy
  • Awards
  • Students
  • Privacy policy
  • Terms of Use
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Bluesky
  • Facebook

© Copyright 2025 History Today Ltd. Company no. 1556332.