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The group was led by keyboard player Mike O'Neill as "Nero", and had two minor hits in the UK, "Entry of the Gladiators" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King". O'Neill (born Michael Anthony O'Neill, 8 July 1938 – 10 October 2013) was born in Lowton , Lancashire, and moved to London in 1958.
Throughout the 1960s Moretti continued to tour and record with artists such as Nero and the Gladiators, Ronnie Jones and The Nightimers and Eddie Calvert.In addition, Moretti was in demand as a session musician and, along with other UK guitarists such as Big Jim Sullivan, future Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and Vic Flick, often played guitar at a recording date without being credited.
The ancient biographer Suetonius, who was critical of Nero's ancestors, wrote that emperor Augustus had reproached Nero's grandfather for his unseemly enjoyment of violent gladiator games. According to Jürgen Malitz, Suetonius tells that Nero's father was known to be "irascible and brutal", and that both "enjoyed chariot races and theater ...
This is probably not the case, since the tunica appears in literature of the centuries before Nero's reign. [4]: 174 The tunica molesta seems to have first appeared as an aspect of the gladiator games. [5] The origins of the gladiator games is more obscure. [6] Roman tradition held that gladiator games were not of Roman origin. [7]
Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on ...
Gladiators customarily kept their prize money and any gifts they received, and these could be substantial. Tiberius offered several retired gladiators 100,000 sesterces each to return to the arena. [69] Nero gave the gladiator Spiculus property and residence "equal to those of men who had celebrated triumphs." [70]
Barabbas: Ivan Triesault as Nero. Challenge of the Gladiator: a Nero look-alike fools the Thracians into believing he is the real Emperor. See Ya Later Gladiator: Mel Blanc as Nero. Star Trek: Eric Bana's character is named Nero; a song on the soundtrack is named "Nero Fiddles, Narada Burns"
Claudia Acte was a freedwoman of ancient Rome who became a mistress of the emperor Nero.She came from Asia Minor and might have become a slave of the Emperor Claudius, following his expansion of the Roman Empire into Lycia and Pamphylia; or she might have been purchased later, by Octavia, Claudius' daughter.