The Downfall of Nero

S1, E6: On 9th June 68 AD, Nero, Emperor of Rome, took his own life with the help of a servant, as troops came to arrest him for crimes against the state. Bettany Hughes looks again at the most notorious reign in Rome's history, to reveal how the empire's first dynasty, founded by the great Augustus, came to such a pitiful end. This was a day that ushered in an age of struggle and civil war, and perhaps more than any other, gives us the Rome that we think we know - the Rome of legend - extreme, debauched, and sensational.