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
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 is house to tony is 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 fermenter gritty. rome was no stranger to