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
ravaged city nero set fire to rome to build a new city but he will rename the after himself. and the biggest nero cliche of them all while a city was burning nero mounted his private stage and comparing modern disasters with ancient and some of the destruction of troy. was what is there. in the story appears to corroborate accounts of his expressive facilities as an artist and of the way he presented himself at other times it s one of the many scenes that one is tempted to regard as an exaggeration of the literary sources but i m not so sure. consider. what tacitus noted as a rumor was recorded as a fund to tony s nero started the fire. and a century after so tony use casio s dio wrote nero said his heart on accomplishing
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 body is reputation and survived into the twenty first century. thing. i m certain that all surviving texts in any way connected to the famous fire of rome were tainted by all teary and motives it is interesting that it escaped validas there is no valid primary source testimony from which one could deduce that nero actually set fire to rome 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 dark and tif. critter. even if nero played no part in starting the fire the romans blamed him none the less as pontifex maximus he was the high priest of
a. towards the palatine you know. it s showtime at the imperial palace where emperor nero has opened the gates to his gardens the people of rome have been demanding revenge for the loss of loved ones and property in the fire. the emperor lights up the festivities with the perpetrators using their bodies as human torches. nero reportedly ordered tar pitch to be poured on christians who were crucified and set on fire to light up his garden death by fire was common punishment for arsonists so that was nothing unusual what is strange for us today is the juxtaposition of jovial festivities and a brutal mass murder. another indication of just how strange life could be in ancient rome. as god went on the evil kinds of this
the edge of the killing and in palatine elves soon a firestorm sweeps through the narrow corridors of the complex. it that my. near always out of town relaxing it is summer residence in antioch a seaside resort on the west coast frequented by wealthy functionaries and politicians it s a day s journey from rome. and here he s built a monumental waterfront palace that includes its own amphitheater where he pursues his artistic ambitions. word of the catastrophe reaches in that night and he hurries back to rome. the city is a sea of flames. when the fire eventually dies three of the city s fourteen administrative regions