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. i think. i m certain that all surviving texts in any way connected to the famous fire of rome were tainted by all teary eyed motives. with intensity that escaped validas 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 a darkened teef basement with a current. even if nero played no part in starting the fire the romans blamed him none the less as pontifex maximus. yes he was the high priest of the empire
i m going to slay show nero s sexual escapades were particularly open to attack because he demonstrative lee crossed the line when it came to gender and social norms and if a man doesn t that here to norms he simply can t be an adequate ruler in political terms like. in the years sixty five euros enemies began plotting to assassinate him. his greek style arts festival the neuron i was coming up and many roman senators couldn t bear the prospect of their emperor once again making a fool of himself by defying roman tradition. for many of the emperors apparent on a public stage was scandalous. but not all of rumsey lead condemned nero second career. as an oft with. reactions to his performances were very
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
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 d.c. . is also the. nero disregarded all the warnings in place to government in the hands of his trusted friedman. 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 crusade for the arts. hero ask the organizers of all four. games the new median the in used to be end and olympic games to reschedule their competitions within the same year so that he nero could take part
could no longer stomach nero s act they viewed it as a mockery of the imperial coughed. a new conspiracy took shape. the legates bendixen and got joined forces in a rebellion. got a very good his legion declare him emperor. one last time nero mobilized his loyal generals and initially he even won the upper hand but then he sank into apathy. the ancient texts repeatedly note that in the final phase of the first signs of apostasy nero would certainly have had the chance to turn back the tide in his favor has he shown more determination. reached out and taken the necessary steps but he didn t his response was hesitant at times he didn t respond at all and merely concentrated on his artistic interests and that served to solidify the opposition and facilitate