Nero is a crazy Roman emperor who allegedly played the violin while his city burned.
You may have known that he was out of his mind, but you have no idea how crazy the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors was.
He was born in the tangled web of the Roman royal family, and was adopted by Emperor Claudius as heir to the Roman Empire. Nero distinguished himself as even more extravagant than any of his predecessors (which indicated that there was Caligula before him).
All his short, but very turbulent life, Nero spent nothing more than a self-indulgent "artist" who devoted himself to promoting his own legend. Of course, the path he took to get there was insane. The Roman emperor, who ended the dynasty started by Augustus, completed his career with a series of horrific, insane, and bizarre episodes that fascinate all historians.
Nero used burning Christians to light up his garden at night
The most famous myth of the emperor Nero is that the distraught emperor did indeed play the violin while Rome burned down during the Great Fire of 64 CE.
The myth of the "violin" arose from the belief of the Roman people that Nero was a spoiled aristocrat who cared little for the plight of his people, so he was considered a man so heartless and carefree that he could play music while his people suffered.
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Lights of Christianity are torches of Nero.
Nero placed the blame for the Great Fire directly on Christians. Nero began to persecute believers with glee. He threw them to the dogs, nailed them to crosses, and sometimes dipped Christians in oil, set them on fire, thereby illuminating his gardens at night with light.
Nero killed his second wife, and then married a guy like her
It can be assumed that Poppaea Sabina was Nero's great love. He exiled his first wife to marry her, and then quickly impregnated her as soon as they got married. Then Poppaea mysteriously died before giving birth to her second child. Historians of the time claim that Nero actually killed Poppea. Modern historians argue that most likely, Poppaea died of a miscarriage.
Illustration by Poppaea Sabina and Nero.
It is also known that after a while Nero fell in love with a young man named Spore, whose most striking feature was his great resemblance to his deceased wife. Nero ordered the boy to be castrated and brought him to the palace, where he began to call him "lady" and "queen".
Nero loved to dress up like a wild animal and not only
As the rule of Nero developed, his sexual characteristics also developed.
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In his youth, he was content with just visiting brothels, and with age, his tastes became more sophisticated. According to the Roman historian Cassius Dio: "Nero tied naked boys and girls to stakes, and then, putting on the skin of a wild beast, attacked them and satisfied his cruel lust in the guise of devouring parts of their bodies."
The murder of a brother and a mother by Neuron
Initially, Nero was not supposed to become emperor. However, after the Emperor Claudius married his niece, Nero's mother Agrippina, she persuaded her husband to adopt Nero. It was then - with Nero, next in line to the throne was Nero's mother Agrippina, who allegedly poisoned Claudius and entrusted the crime to another woman.
Nero and Agrippina.
As soon as Nero took the throne at the age of 17, he was warned by both his advisers and friends to keep an eye on Agrippina. In an attempt to gain a foothold on the throne, Nero poisoned his half-brother Britannica, and then, fearing the wrath of his mother and hers.
Panic murder
Nero tried to flee Rome after some political animosity and a healthy dose of paranoia. He made it to the port city of Ostia, several officers in the city refused to listen when the emperor was giving them orders, so Nero returned to the Roman palace.
Death of Nero, Vasily Smirnov.
A messenger arrived and informed Nero that the Senate had declared him an enemy of the state and that they intended to beat him to death at the first opportunity. This was actually a misunderstanding, as the Senate was only considering beating Nero. Eventually, they decided to reinstate the emperor and sent a second messenger to bring the news to him.
At this time, Nero tried to gather his courage and commit suicide. He reportedly walked in circles repeating "the artist dies in me!" So he tried to convince his surroundings that it was easy to commit suicide. When the Senate messenger arrived to inform him that everything was in order, Nero heard the noise of approaching horses, panicked and ordered his secretary Epaphroditus to kill him. He obeyed and did it. Epaphroditus was put to death for his loyalty.
Nero had his own clack
Nero could be a good performer. Some of his closest advisors allegedly encouraged him to speak in public. However, according to some historians, the emperor had a "weak and indistinct voice", so that all his listeners burst into laughter and cried at once.
Alma-Tadema Claudius.
However, so that his pride would not suffer, Nero assembled a special detachment of five thousand soldiers, called the Augustans, whose only task was to clap their hands when Nero did it. These soldiers were also encouraged to engage the audience in shouts and applause.
He established Juvenalia - games in honor of his own beard
In 59 CE, when Nero was 22, he finally began to grow a manly beard that deserved a shave. In honor of this rite of passage, the emperor instituted Juvenalia, or "games of youth," literally a holiday in honor of Nero's shaving.
Bust of Nero, Carol Raddato.
The festival distinguished itself as a show of theatrical art, consisting of all known types of theatrical performance. The most famous members of Rome were expected to join the cast and look like they liked it. When some church members wore masks to hide their identity, Nero demanded that their faces be shown to the public.
Nero emptied the Roman treasury by rebuilding his palace
After the Great Fire, Nero decided to spend his vast Roman treasury not rebuilding the city as a whole, but building a luxurious 100-acre palace complex that became known as the Golden House.
Emperor Nero, Jan Styka.
In the center of the Golden House of Aurea stood a bronze statue of Nero himself, which the emperor named the Colossus of Nero.
He may have been a model for the antichrist
When Nero died in AD 68, some believed that his "suicide" was not real and that the insane emperor was still alive. There were cases when people who looked like a ruler and sang to the music of the lyre pretended to be the emperor Nero. As a rule, these people were quickly discovered and killed.
Nero, John William Waterhouse.
The image of Nero as vile was so widespread that his actions could contribute to the personification of the Antichrist in the New Testament, and the belief that when the Antichrist appears, he will do so in the form of an emperor.
Everyone who comes to power in a dirty way thinks first of all about himself and never about his people. Glorified for low deeds and deeds. The memory of them is preserved for centuries.