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
rome s establishment was incensed by the egalitarian ism of the christian community where freed men sat a long aristocrats a no go in the hierarchical class conscious society of any age group. and credits from. the traditional roman would have looked at a christian community and said and we know they did because their attacks that quote them and this is an outrageous gathering which permits fishmongers weiss to speak about religion and he ordered it and credits and so a traditional roman would have found the christian community pretty scandalous and because of the disconcerting way it removed hierarchical distinctions in this. stratification finds he won t it will be because they trust. the church of sun giovanni apollo on the kalian hill this was where the super rich lived in nero s