It centers on an event in which a certain ruler's desire to experience (*) artistic suffering leads him to order a city to be burned, while it ends shortly after the suicide of the "arbiter of elegance", a member of that ruler's court named Petronius.
After a dramatic philippic is given late in this novel, a slave named Eunice cuts her own vein and bleeds to death. In one episode in this novel, the protagonist hires the traitorous charlatan Chilon Chilonides to aid in his pursuit of another character. Shortly thereafter, its protagonist's other companion, a gigantic athlete named Croton, is defeated by the bull-killing slave Ursus. It centers on an event in which a certain ruler's desire to experience (*) artistic suffering leads him to order a city to be burned, while it ends shortly after the suicide of the "arbiter of elegance", a member of that ruler's court named Petronius. Its title comes from a scene in which Nazarius watches Peter have a vision of Christ. For 10 points, identify this work in which Lygia marries Marcus Vinicius after the latter converts to Christianity, a novel set during the rule of Nero and written by Henryk Sienkiewicz.
After a dramatic philippic is given late in this novel, a slave named Eunice cuts her own vein and bleeds to death.
{Quo Vadis?}