GOD NO NERO!

[Prince Lightning Da Cute 619]

I was attending my global history class and we got the roman empire, me and my teacher have actually debating in class about it aswell. (Scores 3-2 if you wanted to know) so today we got to watch ancient Rome the movie, which over Neros rein. I was asleep through the first half, but I tuned in just before the assassination attempt....

 

 

God, I should've stayed asleep, the way he killed all them. In public, no excuses and no escapes either. Then he threw an art festival and starred in it while Rome was nearly backrupt?! Back then, Actors weren't what the are now, back then was in social status just, just above a beggar. So this was like Queen Elizabeth mud wrestling. After words he literally killed his wife infront of his servants because she mentioned how he dropped one prop. He kicked her to death and killed their heir aswell.

 

He then went on tour with his act, in a poor attempt to earn money. While there he made a plan to force all the wealthy to put everything they Had in their will to him and then kill them. Not a moment later, he executed this plan, and it was bloody.... He even turned one of them into a women and watched them do it aswell. They then got enough sense to rebel against him, and force to commit suicide. He called himself a god, but I disagree with every part of me to even speak those words.

 

He in my opinion may be one of the worst people on the history of humanity. Did he do good? Or did he doors bad stuff that I forgot to mention? What's your opinion of him?

 

TL;DR? I think Nero is horrible what do you think?

[NeverNeverland 1,940]

I know little to nothing about Nero, and based on what information is given to us, I have to ask - is this a question about morality or not?

[Prince Lightning Da Cute 619]

I know little to nothing about Nero, and based on what information is given to us, I have to ask - is this a question about morality or not?

 

It depends on how you interpret it but otherwise to my viewpoint, it is not, but I can easily see how it could be.

[Whiteshade 1,426]

I don't know Nero, so I did some very very basic Wikipedia research. Apparently he was horrible morally, yet very savvy from the Machiavellian viewpoint, by eliminating his rivals very efficiently and exploiting populism.

[Colon Leftbracket 971]

Nero is a very famous historical figure of tyranny and power gone absolutely wrong!

[Crispy 5,563]

Apparently he was horrible morally, yet very savvy from the Machiavellian viewpoint, by eliminating his rivals very efficiently and exploiting populism.

 

Sounds like he'd make a real run for the presidency, were he alive.

[Luurilka 325]

If only fim was around for him...

[Prince Lightning Da Cute 619]

If only fim was around for him...

 

If Nero saw that then our entire timeline would change, so many things would go wrong from Nero going right, We'd have to get Docter Wooves in here to explain it all!

[Whiteshade 1,426]

If Nero saw that then our entire timeline would change, so many things would go wrong from Nero going right, We'd have to get Docter Wooves in here to explain it all!

 

Which one? We have like 8 docs on these forums alone

[MVC NVMXD JVRXD 2,406]

The Doctor Whooves tm, of course!

[Mr. Wobbels 664]

Nero was pretty cool guy. He burned down ghettos and doesn't afraid of anything.

[Prince Lightning Da Cute 619]

Nero was pretty cool guy. He burned down ghettos and doesn't afraid of anything.

 

"Not sure if serious or playing around"

[MVC NVMXD JVRXD 2,406]

"Not sure if serious or playing around"

 

[Yellow Diamond 7,569]

Nero became emperor at a rather young age, if I recall correctly. He was fairly competent at the beginning of his reign, but being inside the imperial bubble really led him to indulge in destructive, bizarre, and murderous behavior. Of course, he is also remembered for instigating the first major empire wide persecution of Christians. Legend has it that St. Paul was beheaded outside of Rome during the rule of Nero.

 

The whole situation reminds me of I, Claudius (a novel which then became a mini-series produced by the BBC) when Caligula brought an older and slightly more demented Tiberius pornographic scrolls. You could become isolated rather quickly, and that often resulted in a lost grip on reality.

[Lady Rarity Pony 4,892]

Nero was a cool guy.

• Had sex with his own mother...don't ask
• married his step sister
• murdered his own family
• drove Rome to bankrupty
• began the persecution of Christians
• killed people while reenacting myths
• killed people just for the LOLz

pretty cool guy.

[Yellow Diamond 7,569]

Nero was a cool guy.

• Had sex with his own mother...don't ask
• married his step sister

Caligula also had a thing for his sister, if Suetonius's account is correct.

[Lady Rarity Pony 4,892]

Caligula also had a thing for his sister, if Suetonius's account is correct.

 

dem royal sisters be irresistible

[Yellow Diamond 7,569]

dem royal sisters be irresistible

 

If the Celestia and Luna fan art floating out there is any indication, then yes.

[cuteycindyhoney 13,307]

Caligula also had a thing for his sister, if Suetonius's account is correct.

 

Caligula was a regular freakshow! That is if the historical accounts are correct. I advise everyone to STAY AWAY from the movie. I watched it once, and that was enough! I got the DVD used for a dollar, otherwise I never would have bought it! My husband gave it to a buddy of his, because I never ever want to see it again!

[Swordfishtrombone 384]

Yeah Nero, he was pretty evil. I reckon he wasn't as bad as Gaius (Caligula) though. And there were others, like Crassius too. Caligula was a total monster of Rome though, invading the sea, making a horse a consul, sleeping with both his sisters, laughing at the thought of killing senators in front of them and declaring himselfs the god Joves brother? Not to mention all the killing he did, sometimes his own family no less...

Yeah, that screams of evilness and insanity to me. Theres a reason he was killed by his own praetorian guards.

[Prince Lightning Da Cute 619]

Yeah Nero, he was pretty evil. I reckon he wasn't as bad as Gaius (Caligula) though. And there were others, like Crassius too. Caligula was a total monster of Rome though, invading the sea, making a horse a consul, sleeping with both his sisters, laughing at the thought of killing senators in front of them and declaring himselfs the god Joves brother? Not to mention all the killing he did, sometimes his own family no less...

Yeah, that screams of evilness and insanity to me. Theres a reason he was killed by his own praetorian guards.

 

Maybe Caligula was worse, I'd he did all that.

 

Making a horse consul and sleeping with his sisters?! God no!

[Swordfishtrombone 384]

And thats a start on Caligulas crimes, he killed an audience at a game once because he grew tired and turned the palace into a brothel... he was a bad person. Course, we don't REALLY know how much of this is true. On the other hand, he built a temple-boat with marble flooring and plumbing. Plus he claimed to have found a recently killed ten foot man while he was riding a horse to an island on a bridge of ships once. So... make of that what you will.

[Raptor_a22 83]

Nero was certifiably insane. Of that there is no doubt.

[Ezio Auditore 702]

Nero watched Rome fall and did nothing but make it worse. He murdered his brother, slept with his mother and generally screwed up everything.

Nero was the one the first to persecute Christians, he did this very brutally and constantly. He used the burning bodies as a light source for his mansion.

It was said by Suetonius and Cassius Dio that Nero sang the "Sack of IIum" in stage costume while the city burned. Popular legend claims that Nero played the fiddle at the time of the fire, an anachrism based merely on the concept of the lyre, a stringed instrument associated with Nero and his performances. (There were no fiddles in 1st-century Rome.) Tacitus's account, however, has Nero in Antium at the time of the fire.Tacitus also said that Nero playing his lyre and singing while the city burned was only rumor.

Well the rest of the world was becoming mad at nero for his crimes and itallian senate sentenced him to death. after hearing of this Nero promptly killed himself outside of Rome.

Umm yeah sorry I tend to go on history rants sometimes... uhh anyway yes he was an awful awful man.

He also kinda looks like mark cuban....

[Nightfall 3,950]

No matter what...

To put it plainly, Nero sucked. On all levels.