History Year 8 Ancient Rome

If asked to think of a single individual who epitomises the decadence, destruction and debauchery of Ancient Rome, the name Nero would surely be on many people’s lips. But are these stories actually true?

Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in 37 AD. He
was the adopted son of Claudius and biological son of Agrippina. Many Christians considered him to be the Antichrist because he persecuted and blamed them for starting the Great Fire in 64, which burned for six days in the heart of the city.

Primary Source material by C. Suetonius Tranquillus - Roman biographer.