until flesh nero s sexual escapades were particularly open to attack because he demonstrative lay crossed the line when it came to gender and social norms and if a man doesn t it here to norms he simply can t be an adequate ruler in political terms like. in the year sixty five nero s enemies began plotting to assassinate him. his greek style arts festival the neuron i was coming up and many roman senators couldn t bear the prospect of their emperor once again making a fool of himself identifying roman tradition. for many of the emperor s appearance on a public stage was scandalous. but not all of rumsey lead condemned nero second career. as an oft with. reactions to his performances were very
rome. the biographers of antiquity described 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 felt the pull 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 entertainment where romans were familiar with greek culture but not so much with things like athletics so he was absolutely pioneering in these respects absolutely and who s in that house and he saw himself in the first place
as an artist and only in second place as emperor that s why i always described nero as the emperor artist question. the ancient drama starring emperor nero ended with his words what an artist dies in me then he stabbed himself in the throat with a dagger. the script of nero s life needs a rewrite it remains unclear whether st peter was ever in rome to heighten the drama of his narrative christian historians later cast nero as the anti christ. nero was. no monster nor was he any more brutal than many so-called good emperors but the dead do not write their own history and nero s was tainted by the passage of time. the bishop of rome became the head of the church and rome the center of christianity.
a. towards the palatine you know. it s showtime 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. as god went on the evil kinds of this
played a part and he went so far as to specifically select roles that reflected episodes in his own life. that s most evident in the murder of pina. he repeatedly performs the role of arrest is the greatest epitome of matricide in antiquity and by doing so repeatedly reminded the public of his own mother s murder. as your. heroes first biographers describe using the scene like attacks and growing state of anxiety. it was at this time that nero 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