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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 wo ....
Revenge of the roman elite and an emperor who rejected what they saw as decorum. nero s biographers began painting a negative picture of the emperor as soon as he died and his body is reputation and survived into the twenty first century. thing. i m certain that all surviving texts in any way connected to the famous fire of rome were tainted by all teary and motives it is interesting that it escaped validas there is no valid primary source testimony from which one could deduce that nero actually set fire to rome and if you try to list the reasons why he may have done so after all the arguments appear very tenuous there really is no motive that one could assign to a dark and tif. critter. even if nero played no part in starting the fire the romans blamed him none the less as pontifex maximus he was the high priest of ....