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 odious reputation has survived into the twenty first century. i think. i m certain that all surviving texts in any way connected to the famous fire of rome were tainted by all teary eyed motives. with intensity that escaped validas there is no valid primary source testimony from which one could deduce that nero actually set fire to rob 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 darkened teef basement with a current. even if nero played no part in starting the fire the romans blamed him none the less as pontifex maximus. yes he was the high priest of the empire
a. toward the palatine hill. it s show time at the imperial palace where emperor nero has opened the gates to his gardens the people of rome have been demanding revenge for the loss of loved ones and property in the fire. the emperor lights up the festivities with the perpetrators using their bodies as human torches. nero reportedly ordered tar pitch to be poured on christians who were crucified and set on fire to light up his garden death by fire was common punishment for arsonists so that was nothing unusual what is strange for us today is the juxtaposition of jovial festivities and a brutal mass murder. another indication of just how strange life could be in ancient rome. if god went on naval kinds of democracies
played. and he went so far as to specifically select roles that reflected episodes in his own life. and that s most evident in the murder of. he repeatedly performed the role of arrested as the greatest epitome of matricide in antiquity and by doing so repeatedly reminded the public of his own mother s murder. using. the rose first biographers describe using creasing panic attacks and growing state of anxiety. it was at this time that mural made a fateful decision. he really didn t want to rule over the roman world as the princeps the emperor he wanted to recycle witchery he wanted to
perform he wanted success as a chariot race or because he wanted to stand in front of a large audience naturally he tried to assert himself as emperor but probably only because it afforded him a heightened experience of the things that really matter to d.c. . is also the. nero disregarded all the warnings in place to government in the hands of his trusted friedman. in august sixty six he took his show on the road to greece he was accompanied by an entourage of six thousand people with string instruments bows and theater masks crusade for the arts. hero ask the organizers of all four. games the new median the in used to be end and olympic games to reschedule their competitions within the same year so that he nero could take part
could no longer stomach nero s act they viewed it as a mockery of the imperial coughed. a new conspiracy took shape. the legates bendixen and got joined forces in a rebellion. got a very good his legion declare him emperor. one last time nero mobilized his loyal generals and initially he even won the upper hand but then he sank into apathy. the ancient texts repeatedly note that in the final phase of the first signs of apostasy nero would certainly have had the chance to turn back the tide in his favor has he shown more determination. reached out and taken the necessary steps but he didn t his response was hesitant at times he didn t respond at all and merely concentrated on his artistic interests and that served to solidify the opposition and facilitate