nero flipped rome. the biographer is around to could you 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 latin literature really flourished amid a burst of literary activity for out he put 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 rome 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 and absolute nor in imposing because of that house that he saw himself in
displayed ingenuity as they vied for the emperor s favor they hired veteran singers who still saying well but were no longer interested in accolades nurul was celebrated as the most successful competitor since the birth of the games. the venue of olympia served him as a stage and he won every competition. it will never be known whether nero was aware of this charade but he didn t just accept the trophies that came with his victories he also pocketed the cash prizes gold that he badly needed to restock use depleted travel fund where. is certain is that nero s popularity among his subjects reached its zenith during his tour of greece.
the empire a mediator between the people. and the gods and baby seemed angry. nero was also commander of the vigilance rome s force of police and fire fighters and office traditionally held by the emperor and one taken very seriously by his predecessors people expected the emperor to rush to the scene of the final. nero couldn t he was an anti and get details didn t interest the public which felt betrayed by nero. his efforts to oversee firefighting operations were praised but they came to live. under warms. or nero lost a great deal of his capital among the population because he was very very late arriving back in rome after hearing about the fire so look at the whole thing and though he then assumed control of the rescue and reconstruction efforts the people
could no longer stomach nero s act they viewed it as a mockery of the imperial comfort. the new conspiracy took shape. the leg it s been dicks 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 up. the ancient texts repeatedly note that in the final phase and made 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 and good 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
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