Sensitive and handsome, Nero (37 – 68 AD / reigned 54 – 68 AD) started out well as emperor. But his early ... Without any heirs, the Roman Empire now had no leader. With the ultimate prize ...
The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most brutal and eccentric leaders. He is said to have killed his mother, stepbrother and wives, persecuted Christians and squandered a fortune ...
She persuaded Claudius to disinherit his own son. She then murdered Claudius. Now Nero was emperor. Again, a good start soon gave way to a darker side of extravagance and random killings.
Nero was a Roman emperor who took the throne in A.D. 54 at the age of 16 and died in A.D. 68. He was considered the worst ruler in the history of the empire. During his reign, he was infamous for ...
Some said Trump was unintentionally comparing himself to the mad Roman emperor Nero — who, so the saying goes, "fiddled while Rome burned" Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been ...
The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a chunk of Egyptian blue ingot, an example of the opulence of the palace itself.