revenge of the roman elite and an emperor who rejected what they saw as decorum. nero's biographers began painting a negative picture of the emperor as soon as he died and his odious reputation has survived into the twenty first century. you think. i'm certain that all surviving tanks same in any way connected to the famous fine referendum were tainted by all teary eyed motives it is with intensity that it escaped kind value because there is no valid primary source testimony from which one could deduce that nero actually set fire to rob and if you try to list the reasons why he may have done so after all the arguments appear very tenuous there really is no motive that one could assign to what kind would tif bussmann were tossed and credit to. even if nero played no part in starting the fire the romans blamed him none the less as pontifex maximus he was the high priest of the empire