This is a blog for IDS 101-17 (fall 2016) at Willamette University
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Evil Nero
Nero seemed to always be causing trouble to someone somewhere. He had several people close to him killed including his mother Agrippina, his wives Octavia and Poppaea, the natural son of Claudius, and others. The only decent act he seemed to do, whether it was genuine or for personal gain, was organize relief measures for the public after the fire. His kindness here was quickly overshadowed by the construction of his new Golden House. His passion for music was even quite selfish because he hired the greatest living master of the lyre as his personal teacher. From the article it would be easy to say Nero is evil, but unfortunately we don't know how much is true or written by a very biased author.
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