People · 37–68
Nero
Roman emperor (54–68)
Nero toured Greece in 66–67 AD. According to Pausanias he tried to sound the bottomless Alcyonian lake at Lerna with weighted ropes many stades long, without finding the bottom.
Also written: Νέρων, Nero Claudius Caesar, Νέρωνας
Events
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c. 67
Emperor Nero tries to find the bottom of the lake
Beside the springs lay the Alcyonian lake, said to have no bottom; through it, the Argives believed, Dionysus went down to the underworld to fetch his mother Semele. Pausanias tells that the emperor Nero had ropes many…