a result they have come to question the integrity of many written accounts from antiquity. the apostle peter is martyrdom on the vatican hill is one of them. it marks the dramatic climax of a religious legend but as one of the most powerful stories in church tradition. some one and a half centuries later a magnificent basilica was erected on the vatican you know of the sign believed to be the very spot where peter was buried. peter s basilica is a monument to the apostle and one of the holiest catholic shrines. in the catacombs deep below the church is an ancient roman graves a veritable city of the dead in which according to legend jesus is first apostle simon peter was buried. peanuts
a dope up oto one of rome s grand squares in middle the. ages it was believed to be haunted by demons and evil spirits because it harbored the remains of the most barbarous man who ever walked the earth nero. in the twelfth century anyone entering the eternal city from the via flat mean yeah would ha
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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
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. it s july nineteenth in the years sixty four it hasn t 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 city s 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 that s 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
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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
Nero fled rome. the biographers of antiquity describe his last hours as the death of a cowardly tyrant not man enough to voluntarily and his own life. bad p.r. until the very end. and yet this emperor did rack up victories even if they weren t on the battlefield. what we can determine is that under nero the latin literature really flourished amid a burst of literary activity felt the pull of the team aspect the positive side of nero s personality was certainly his enthusiasm his love of the arts and culture which had a formative influence on not just in the development of the arts but also in city planning and in entertain. and romans were familiar with greek culture but not so much with things like athletics so he was absolutely pioneering in these respects absolute nor in imposing in the course of that house that he saw himself in the