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 ...

A rumor had spread of Nero’s behavior during the fire: although he hadn’t fiddled while Rome burned, he had been singing. With Nero’s mother dead and his tutor retired, the emperor was ...

or Nero for short, was the last emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. And though he was infamous for his indifference toward destruction (though scholars doubt he really played a fiddle while ...

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Myth-believers to the end, Bruschini would conclude, the same who believed that foolishness about fiddling while Rome burned and who would fail to appreciate the tragedy of Nero’s final day ...

last week received the following invitation: “My dear Senator: Having recently received a famous fiddle, you are most ... the world that having out-Neroed Nero in persecuting and denouncing ...

It was rumoured that Nero had started the blaze, and later accounts claim he played the fiddle while the city burned. This can’t be true since fiddles didn’t exist in Roman times (although ...

When the BBC called to talk about my letter to Caffé Nero, the one protesting over their tax-dodging activities, I realised I must have hit a nerve. Tax, tax evasion and tax avoidance aren’t the most ...