Here’s how it works. The Roman emperor Nero ranks among the most infamous rulers of the Roman Empire for supposedly fiddling while Rome burned. But did that really happen? And does Nero really ...

The legend surrounding the Roman Emperor Nero is that he started a fire that burned most of Rome - and played the fiddle while it was happening. Historians doubt that the story is true ...

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 ...

Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty.” It is hardly known that the emperor who “fiddled while Rome burned” actually tried to douse the flames. The Great Fire of Rome, a week-long July ...

The legend surrounding the Roman Emperor Nero is that he started a fire that burned most of Rome - and played the fiddle while it was happening. Historians doubt that the story is true ...

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 ...

Curators at The British Museum assert that much of what the layperson learned in school about Emperor Nero is untrue—he did not fiddle maniacally as Rome burned around him, for example ...

Conn Iggulden picks the Roman Emperor Nero, who was accused of killing his ... fiction about Nero with the strapline, "Rome wasn't burned in a day." ...