Supporting BlackLivesMatter. August 24, We all have to admit that Rome has one of the most enriched histories and a list of rulers that are considered one of the most powerful packs in the history of this planet.
A short introduction on Nero Nero is considered as one of best known for the worst list of Roman emperors ever existed and also having allowed his wife and also his mother to rule for him and then stepped out from their Shadows and in the result of having them and reportedly kicking his wife to death.
What made Nero so bad? Author Sky Hoon Italy Lover. He travel to Europe a few times and loved Italy for its unique language and culture. Agrippina enjoyed enormous power while Claudius ruled but she wanted more. In 54 A. Claudius died, again allegedly poisoned by Agrippina.
Nero became Emperor at the age of For the first five years of his reign, he was actually known for his political savvy and generosity. However, Agrippina was the one pulling the strings. Nero learned some tricks from Agrippina and had Britannicus murdered with, shockingly, poison. After that things went downhill for Nero. Yet one of these volumes was dedicated entirely to the reign of one man: the Roman emperor Nero.
Nero ascended to power in AD 54 following the death of his step-father, Claudius. Fourteen chaotic, blood-spattered years later it was all over, Nero dying — perhaps by his own hand — at the climax of a rebellion against his rule.
Nero would return to Earth again, and his second coming would signal the time of the apocalypse. Listen: Roman historian Shushma Malik discusses the infamous crimes of the emperor Nero and considers whether he is deserving of his monstrous reputation. There are a number of reasons why, for almost 2, years, historians have lined up to denigrate Nero.
But the most important is surely that his reign saw the first persecution of the Christians. In AD 64, a fire ripped through Rome , devastating 10 of its 14 districts. Nero sought to quell these rumours and, to do that, he needed a scapegoat. That, Tacitus tells us, is where the Christians came in. For the crime of starting the fire, Nero punished this already unpopular religious sect by setting up a display in his own gardens at which the condemned were mutilated and killed by dogs. Another punishment saw the victims fixed to crucifixes and set alight to burn as lamps at night.
This truly horrific account understandably grabbed the attention of early Christians. And those historians gave Christian writers like Sulpicius a lot of material to work with. All three writers invariably describe Nero as a violent fratricide, matricide and uxoricide wife-killer. First of all, Nero was 35 miles away when it happened.
Could he have secretly given instructions to people to carry out the fire and then left to give himself plausible deniability? That is entirely possible. Is it suspicious that Emperor Nero then had a gigantic palace erected where many of the homes had burned? Could allowing citizens to stay in his current palace have been a ploy to gain sympathy from an unsuspecting public? But as far as the whole fiddling thing went, the instrument he allegedly used was not invented until centuries later, per History.
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