Ravaged city nero set fire to rome to build a new city but he will rename the after himself. and the biggest nero cliche of them all while a city was burning nero mounted his private stage and comparing modern disasters with ancient and some of the destruction of troy. was what is there. in the story appears to corroborate accounts of his expressive facilities as an artist and of the way he presented himself at other times it s one of the many scenes that one is tempted to regard as an exaggeration of the literary sources but i m not so sure. consider. what tacitus noted as a rumor was recorded as a fund to tony s nero started the fire. and a century after so tony use casio s dio wrote nero said his heart on accomplishing