. in the able for then we have accounts that reveal nero suffered from severe stage fright before these events but that he still put in spirited performances against his competitors and he has always tremendously surprised when as if by coincidence he won first place and very humbly accepted the prizes and the applause. even if he'd fallen off the chariot and nearly died during the race and this. as we hear so here again we have the phenomenon that we can observe in many other areas of nero's person he was living in his own world and shaping his own reality a shuffle hot. aside from athletic competitions like chariot raising the games also featured artistic contests nero took part in all of them organizers