/lit/ - Literature

Is anyone familiar with Robert Hughes as an author? He's not the most scholarly author of course, but he might be the most interesting. Many of these stories are entirely new to me. For example, how Nero used to beat up people coming back from parties at night, before having his guardsmen dump the badly-beaten man into a sewer. It's not exactly warm-hearted conservatism. The sheer amount of dirt on the streets of Rome is hard to imagine as well.

Read it at night or in the wee, small hours of the morning. Pay especial attention to the first sentence in his paragraphs before completing the other sentences. He dispenses an airy kind of prologue.