![]() ![]() Metropolitan Museum of Art /about-the-met/curatorial-departments/greek-and-roman-art The Internet Classics Archive īryn Mawr Classical Review ĭe Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors īritish Museum .uk Oxford Classical Art Research Center: The Beazley Archive beazley.ox.ac.uk The Roman Empire in the 1st Century pbs.org/empires/romans “Outlines of Roman History” “The Private Life of the Romans” | BBC Ancient Rome bbc.co.uk/history Perseus Project - Tufts University Lacus Curtius Websites on Ancient Rome: Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Late Antiquity Forum Romanum Later Ancient Roman History (33 articles) Īncient Roman Life (39 articles) Īncient Greek and Roman Religion and Myths (35 articles) Īncient Roman Art and Culture (33 articles) Īncient Roman Government, Military, Infrastructure and Economics (42 articles) Īncient Greek and Roman Philosophy and Science (33 articles) Īncient Persian, Arabian, Phoenician and Near East Cultures (26 articles) ![]() The case against Nero as evil incarnate would appear to be open and shut.” Ĭategories with related articles in this website:Įarly Ancient Roman History (34 articles) 64 and then shifted the blame to a host of Christians (including Saints Peter and Paul), who were rounded up and beheaded or crucified and set aflame so as to illuminate an imperial festival. Robert Draper wrote in National Geographic: “He instructed his mentor Seneca to commit suicide (which he solemnly did) castrated and then married a teenage boy presided over the wholesale arson of Rome in A.D. Paul was beheaded and Peter was crucified upside down.” He even tortured and killed the apostle Paul and the disciple Peter. He was so bad that many of the Christians thought he was the Antichrist. Thousands of Christians were starved to death, burned, torn by dogs, fed to lions, crucified, used as torches and nailed to crosses. He often raped women and cut off the veins and private parts of both men and women. He poisoned, beheaded, stabbed, burned, boiled, crucified and impaled people. Patrick Ryan wrote in Listverse, Nero “ murdered thousands of people including his aunt, stepsister, ex-wife, mother, wife and stepbrother. Then followed a career of wickedness, extortion, and atrocious cruelty. He discarded the counsels of Seneca and Burrhus, and accepted those of Tigellinus, described a man of the worst character. At her suggestion, he first murdered his mother, and then his wife. He afterward yielded himself to the influence of the infamous Poppaea Sabina, said to be the most beautiful and the wickedest woman of Rome. The intrigues of his unscrupulous and ambitious mother, Agrippina, to displace Nero and elevate Britannicus, the son of Claudius, led to Nero’s first domestic tragedy-the poisoning of Britannicus. Nero’s worst enemies were in his own family and household. ![]() His last words were, “What an artist died in me!” And he committed suicide at the age of 30, one step ahead of his executioners. He competed as a poet, singer an actor, a herald and charioteer, and he won every contest, even when he fell out of his chariot at the Olympics games, he alienated and persecuted the elite, neglected the army, and drained the treasury. He fixed the blame for the Great Fire on the Christians, some of whom he hung up as human torches to light his gardens at night. “After incinerating the city in 64, he built over much of downtown Rome with his own great Xanadu, the Golden House. He melted down the household gods of Rome for their cash value." He married another freedman, this time himself playing the bride. He castrated and then married a freedman. In fact, he executed or murdered most of his close relatives. Nero also slept with his mother, Nero married and executed one stepsister, executed his other stepsister, raped and murdered his stepbrother. In his book “Nero,” Edward Champlin wrote: “Nero murdered his mother, and Nero fiddled while Rome burned. He is known mainly for being a cruel wacko but in many ways he left the Roman Empire better off than when arrived. Nero's real name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. He became the Roman emperor when he was seventeen, the youngest ever at that time. 37-68) was the fifth emperor of Rome, ruling from A.D. Poppea, Nero's second wife, bringing the head of Octavia, his first wife, to Nero
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