The Roman emperor Nero ranks among the most infamous rulers ... But even if Nero did play music while Rome was burning, he would not have used a fiddle, as bowed instruments would not become ...

although he hadn’t fiddled while Rome burned, he had been singing. With Nero’s mother dead and his tutor retired, the emperor was beyond anyone’s control. Rome was now victim to the ...

June 9th is a date etched in history with events that have shaped the world in profound ways, across continents and centuries ...

The ruins of Emperor Nero’s theater have been uncovered in Rome, Italian officials said ... happily fiddling against the backdrop of a burning city. Tacitus, an ancient historian, wrote that ...

Nero has gone down in history as one of Rome's cruelest and most sadistic emperors. And indeed ... and was implicated in the burning of Rome. But was he really the debauched tyrant that many ...

Across centuries and continents, formidable fires once threatened to destroy three major cities: Rome ... Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty.” It is hardly known that the emperor ...

Contrary to legend, Nero probably did not play the fiddle during the Great Fire of Rome ... by the image of the emperor happily fiddling against the backdrop of a burning city.