I'm John Datschner, Nero.

Actraside music and murder in Imperial Rome, Anthony Everett and Roddy Ashworth, the

authors, it is 64 AD.

Summer in Rome, a city crowded, never built in any fashion

to sustain fires that are routine here and there everywhere in the

crowded neighborhoods except a fire begins near the circus maximus and

spreads. Anthony the fire spreads because or despite the efforts of the firefighters. Do we know today

because their accusations that they did this to destroy the city so Nero could

burn it is is he guilty or innocent yes and quite well more than innocent

he's actually a very effective assault as the problems after the fire was over. The fact is that people

call rumors, malevolent rumors about the fire, mistaking what were fire breaks, the building of fire

breaks, mistaking that for people, the soldiery, and purposely putting the set, setting fires.

And that's not true, it's the Parliament is quite clearly an effort to create fire plates.

Niro was blamed for the fire, largely because there's nobody else around to blame.

He handled the whole thing very well. He redesigned the city. He organized improvements to the public environment.

Nero's blame for the fire. His response is to rebuild Rome, rebuild Rome with

marble and with the golden house, but Nero blames the Christians or does he?

I'm careful of all of this because the distortion

after 2,000 years can be enormous does Niro say this sect of Jews is is

responsible well he seems to, but in fact there's the good evidence that the section of the

texting passengers that goes into all of this is in fact written by somebody completely different

three or four centuries later.

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