Aims and sluicing the twenty sixteen election. And the dozen friends sound like iraq and berlin on behalf of the entire news team thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us the news continues at the top of the hour see that. Letter we were. When we were. Eighty percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship listen up. Double. Binds. Nero murderer and despot a madman on the imperial throne. Whose name is inextricably linked with one of the biggest disasters of the ancient world The Great Fire over a. Hero set rome a light to make room for his own building plans in takes the blame for the fire on the christians ordering the torture and execution of thousands. But scholars today question the legend of nero as the arsonist of rome and down to the initiator of policy of persecution against the christians. To date there is no archaeological evidence to support the theory that the Apostle Peter was ever in rome but there are mounting indications tha
on the city s design and proved to be a visionary and pragmatic planner with his advisors he set out to read rome of its narrow streets and congested spaces unbearably confined in the hot summer months. instead he ordered wide avenues in colonnades to provide shade a mammoth project that nero helped finance from his own coffers tacitus praised nero s actions as wise and prudent. at last i m going to be able to be housed like a human being that it sounds to tony as quote here on the completion of his new palace the domus aria or golden house. it s wall and ceiling frescoes were rediscovered at the height of the renaissance painters were abseiled down into the subterranean labyrinth of the palace to copy the works of their predecessors ferment dignity. rome was no stranger to