Nero krone just shy of seventeen a mere teenager when he was vested with absolute power over the mightiest empire in the world the roman empire. Emperor nero was remembered as the incarnation of the evil one of the greatest despots in history a monster and a madman. He killed his brother. His mother and ordered his own wife to be put to death. He was a frustrated artist who made a fool of himself and the imperial throne. But there is evidence that nero was not the crazed and capricious ruler that hes been made out to be. Could nero be the victim of a smear campaign. Did use early biographers distort the facts when they morial. Was his reign. Is reputed crimes nothing but slander. Narrow range in an era shaped by fear morality and brutality his world is this just into us was another planet and yet its strange theres no disputing the fact that rome adored new. Nero Claudius Caesar augustus dramatic us was not yet seventeen when he ascended the throne of the julio claudian dynasty. He was