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
first place as an artist and only in second place as emperor that s why i always describe nero as the emperor artist special. the ancient drama starring emperor nero ended with his words what an artist dies in me when he stabbed himself in the throat with a dagger. the script of nero s life needs a rewrite it remains unclear whether st peter was ever in rome to harden the drama of his narrative christian historians later cast nero as the anti christ. nero was no monster nor was he any more brutal than many so-called good emperors but the dead do not write their own history nero s was tainted by the passage of time. the bishop of rome became the head of the church in rome the center of christianity.