Did Nero persecute Christians? It’s part of our imaginative ... they were “stuck on stakes” in preparation for burning (leaving aside a serious textual problem). Those others dressed in ...

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In “Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended ... to deflect suspicion from himself, Nero blamed Rome’s Christians for the fire, orchestrating wholesale and gruesome public executions.

Carl Theodor von Piloty, “Nero Views the Burning of Rome,” ca ... not without historical proof, that the early Christians were considered dangerous to the Roman Empire — which was on ...

Archaeologist Andrea Carandini provides the most convincing evidence to corroborate the implication of Tacitus — that Nero circumvented the senate by burning ... that the Christians were to ...

not to mention in the computer software Nero Burning ROM. But are any of these stories that feed our popular conception of the emperor Nero actually true? We’d like to tackle two of the most ...

Arrival of the Christian Slaves: The captives are brought before Nero. He chooses one fair maiden to serve in his palace. The others are condemned to death for a Roman holiday.

Nero is accused of having "fiddled while Rome burned" and remembered for executing his mother and burning Christians alive. History has sided against him on all counts, but could there be another ...

the burning of Rome, the shackled captives under Roman rule, the pagan ceremonies, the secret Christian meetings, the gladiators unto the death to amuse Nero’s court, and the climax as the ...

“But what has been going on with these state premiers, particularly the one here in Victoria, who literally is like Nero fiddling while Rome is burning and then blaming the Christians.” ...