Aims and sluicing the twenty sixteen election. And the dozen friends sound like iraq and berlin on behalf of the entire news team thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us the news continues at the top of the hour see that. Letter we were. When we were. Eighty percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship listen up. Double. Binds. Nero murderer and despot a madman on the imperial throne. Whose name is inextricably linked with one of the biggest disasters of the ancient world The Great Fire over a. Hero set rome a light to make room for his own building plans in takes the blame for the fire on the christians ordering the torture and execution of thousands. But scholars today question the legend of nero as the arsonist of rome and down to the initiator of policy of persecution against the christians. To date there is no archaeological evidence to support the theory that the Apostle Peter was ever in rome but there are mounting indications tha
To the emperor by later writers. Nero an eccentric ruler who wanted to be an artist and preferred to live in a world of fantasy. But neither an arsonist nor persecutor of christians. Was. Its july nineteenth in the years sixty four it hasnt rained for days. Rome is
days thousands will die when the smoke clears three quarters of the city will lay in ruins. According to legend the Apostle Peter was in rome at the same time to supervise the citys fledgling Christian Community. Later he would go down in the annals of the Catholic Church is the first Bishop Of Rome. With. Another natori as legend emperor nero himself started the fire as an excuse to rebuild rome to his own liking and to rename the city mirabilis and thats not all. The Mad Megalomaniac watched the conflagration from his palace on the palatine you know merrily singing and playing his life. In need of a scapegoat he blamed the fire on the christians so many indiscriminately and
mercilessly crucified. Because of peter was also
how did the roman emperor come to be known as the anti-christ and the beast of the revelation. it all started here the circus maximus at the foot of the palatine hill the green oval of the ancient racetrack has survived to this day he marrows time an audience of possibly two hundred fifty thousand could pack into the stadium to share the emperor s delight in chariot race and. the circus maximus was the biggest entertainment complex in the ancient world. it was also the origin of the spark that ignited the great fire of rock. it s the evening of july nineteenth and the year sixty four the summer heat is stifling and the shops clustered around the circus maximus. there are hundreds of bars shops and stalls almost all of them constructed from wood with open fires burning everywhere the blaze breaks out under the racecourses wooden bleachers at
how did the roman emperor of come to be known as the anti christ and the beast of the revelation. it all started here the circus maximus at the foot of the palatine hill the green oval of the ancient racetrack and survived to this day the narrows time an audience of possibly two hundred fifty thousand could pack into the stadium to share the emperor s delight in chariot racing. the circus maximus was the biggest entertainment complex in the ancient world. it was also the origin of the spark that ignited the great fire of rock. it s the evening of july nineteenth and the year sixty four the summer heat is stifling and the shops clustered around the circus maximus there are hundreds of bars shops and stalls almost all of them constructed from wood with open fires burning everywhere the blaze breaks out under the racecourses wooden bleachers at
to almost a million people it s a sweltering summer night. the majority of rum citizens can t escape the heat unlike the wealthy who have long since retreated to their estates in the cooler plains of nearby lot you know. in just a few hours an inferno with a rock turning the city s narrow streets into a death trap. nero is also not in rome he s retreated to his summer residence in the seaside resort of antioch. in rome the brothels bars and betting shops lining the circus maximus are packed on this fateful night. it is here that the catastrophe begins. the great fire of rock a dramatic calamity for the city and its people comparable in the magnitude of its destruction to the earthquake infante. the blame. his will rage for seven days