perform he wanted success as a chariot race or because he wanted to stand in front of a large audience naturally he tried to assert himself as emperor but probably only because it afforded him a heightened experience of the things that really matter to these invocation of eyes also the. nero disregarded all the warnings in place to government in the hands of his trusted freedman. in august sixty six he took his show on the road to greece he was accompanied by an entourage of six thousand people with string instruments bows and theater masks the crusade for the arts. hero ask the organizers of all four. games in a million fifty in just beyond and olympic games to reschedule their competitions within the same year so that he niro could take part.