complex was laid out like a stage accessible to all it included a huge artificial lake its own future villages with fields of vineyards and woodlands teeming with all kinds of tamed. even by imperial standards the golden house was nothing short of bombastic. nero commissioned a giant statue of his likeness golden and thirty meters sign for the entrance hall of his palace was all this a sign of megalomania proof of his madness. if you didn't need it one wished i was hooked but side missed it but 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