and cassius dio wasn't writing until a century later. it was in custody of tacitus and cassius dio belong to the senatorial class so you turn uses social standing was a little below that but he too wrote for an heiress to traffic audience. and those were exactly the circles that narrow antagonized so these primary sources endorse a very negative picture that draws heavily on distorted aspects of the neuron a narrative of these distortions are highly. the magic for historians. the characters into tony and his biography of nero are authentic but the same can't be necessarily center of the plot the author was seeking to entertain not inform his readers on tikun you can't judge anxious historiography according to the standards of modern historical writing the writers of antiquity about voting to produce literature when they conceived their works accordingly. and question. it's up to historians today to verify how much truth lies in these ancient sources and peel away fiction from historical fact and what contrasts in ancient historians view
