This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm Gaius with Germanicus. We're enjoying ourselves

reflecting upon the strange behavior of the American Republic Empire in the 21st century.

However, the Roman history is filled with strange characters, perhaps several more strange than Nero,

but not as famous for being strange as Nero.

A man who has his mother murdered because she annoys him and then misses her and mourns her every night

because the conversation was excellent.

His mother, Claudia, the minor, that is younger, was married to Claudius the emperor before,

who inherited the Roman Julian Claudian Empire by hiding behind a curtain the night the Puritoreans

killed Caligula.

I don't go on.

You understand.

This is Rome.

But Nero didn't believe he was born to be an emperor.

He felt that it was a burden. He had to live up to it. He was born to be an actor, which in the Roman

times meant singing, dancing, and acting out parts on stage.

The year before he fell into disrepair with the Senate,

I believe was when he'd gone to Greece for the Olympic Games.

And then 2,000 years ago, the Olympic Games included theater.

And so he'd won all the prizes.

What a surprise.

The emperor of the Roman Empire wins all the

first prizes at the Olympics, clever Greeks. But in any event, he wept, he wept because he wasn't

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