the empire a mediator between the people. and the gods and baby seemed angry. nero was also commander of the vigilance rome s force of police and fire fighters and office traditionally held by the emperor and one taken very seriously by his predecessors people expected the emperor to rush to the scene of the final. nero couldn t he was an anti and get details didn t interest the public which felt betrayed by nero. his efforts to oversee firefighting operations were praised but they came to live. under warms. or nero lost a great deal of his capital among the population because he was very very late arriving back in rome after hearing about the fire so look at the whole thing and though he then assumed control of the rescue and reconstruction efforts the people
was laid out like a stage accessible to all it included a huge artificial lake it s own suter villas with fields of vineyards and woodlands teeming with all kinds of team down. even by imperial standards the golden house was nothing short of bombastic. nero commissioned a giant statue of his likeness golden thirty meters high for the entrance hall of his palace was all this a sign of megalomania proof of his madness. it would enable nish to buy its looked at side and if i wouldn t describe nero as crazy not because i rule out that he was crazy but because ultimately we just know too little about nero to classify him as such. as it s
search for the bones of the apostle peter beneath the basilica. digging was conducted in secrecy and at night so no one would hear anything above in the basilica it wasn t long before workman made a significant discovery. soon the vatican archaeologist was overseeing the operations for the find was a christian tomb and ultimately a handful of clones was on earth it was only twenty five years later that pope paul the sixth announced the remains of st peter had been found below the vatican. after the great fire nero set about reconstructing the destroyed districts two thousand years later not much of his efforts has survived the ruins of an insulating a multistory department block. in nero s day such tenements were groundbreaking both in terms of architecture and city planning as a way of providing housing for the growing population of. nero made his mark on the
could no longer stomach nero s act they viewed it as a mockery of the imperial comfort. the new conspiracy took shape. the leg it s been dicks 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 up. the ancient texts repeatedly note that in the final phase and made 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 and good 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
mixed we know of roman aristocrats who supported nero s performances and encouraged them others were deeply contemptuous of what he debt and it was tessa tests and particular who gave a voice to their view a horse for tots it was. a conspiracy was exposed and nero s police cracked down at least nineteen men and women were arrested going to go on their social status they were killed or forced to commit suicide neuros former tutor an advisor seneca was one of the. nero put his life on public display he gave guitar of performances and poetry recitals and increasingly he appeared on stage in roles that echoed his own personal history erasing the boundary between stay. i think. he was clearly identifying himself with the characters he