The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

In the year 54, the Roman Emperor Claudius died, and his adopted son Nero became the emperor of Rome at the age of 16.

His reign was one of the most infamous in history, and over 2,000 years after he came to power, his name is

still used to invoke the image of a cruel ruler and a despot. But what exactly made him so bad,

and was he really as bad as the legend say? Learn more about Emperor Nero, and why his

reign became so infamous on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Bet the responsible way, gamblerware.org The Emperor who was to become known as Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus D'Germanicus, was born with none of those names.

He was born Lucius Demisius Ahanna-Barbus on December 15th in the year 37, in the Italian town of Antium, now called Anzio, which is about 50 kilometers south of Rome.

His father, who really has no part in this story,

was Nyestimichius Ahanabarbis. The parent who played an outsized role in his life was his mother,

Agrippina the younger. Agrippina was the daughter of Germanicus, who was once in line to

become emperor himself, the sister of the Emperor

Caligula, and the great-granddaughter of Augustus. She was a core member of the Julio-Claudean

dynasty that ruled Brom. Nero's father died when he was just two years old. His mother

later became the fourth wife of the Emperor Claudius. And just to get an idea of how dysfunctional this family was, Claudius was the brother of Germanicus,

and thus, Agrippina's uncle.

Agrippina was, by all contemporary accounts, an extremely ambitious woman who wanted to rule Rome herself.

But because she was a woman, she couldn't wield power directly, so she didn't. an extremely ambitious woman who wanted to rule Rome herself.

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