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Well actualy that rumor about burning rome and much more of it was spread by his political enemies and was far from what it trully was, he was a man who rather never didnt want to be the emperor but simply get manipulated into it by his mother, title of the worst emperor goes to the Elagabalus and Tiberius, nor Nero or even Caligula arent the "worst"...
@@AirTheHuntressElagabalus made me lmao tbh. He was crazy af. I heard Nero was hated and many lies were made up by him. But that fkn story about his wife and turning some boy into his wife and cutting his penis off is pretty fucking insane.
@@DEATH14269 It was also partiali made up, that "cutting" couldnt have place simply because he would rather bleed out to death, he actualy by sources just resembled his wife Nero was desperate boy was more "feme" so he just dressed up as a woman, in the clothes of the Neros wife because she was a strong political figure and he after she died couldnt lose such "strenght", it was just a part of mistification to protect the throne....
The Irony is that even the Pagan Gods he claimed to worship Standards Would send this dude to Agony for Eternity. All I can Picture is Jesus and Zeus Looking down on this Guy and Calling a Truce just to create the most elaborate punishment imaginable for this Guy when he dies.😂
@@LiamMacDHe even looted and burned down the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, burned the Pythia (basically the Greek pantheon’s pope) alive and enslaved her priestesses. So Greek pantheon definitely wanted to flying elbow him into Tartarus. 😂
poor kid. what happened to him afterwards? did he have to be castrated? couldn't nero just pretend? why did he kill his wife? why did he sleep with his mother?
Didn't he also immediately come back and build shelters for the fire victims and insured food for them? He also built a market and also a public bathhouse of very high quality for even the average man to use, this was around the same time he was building his Palace.
@@ibraheemshuaib8954what’s for sure is that he built a big ass statue of himself and set Christians on fire as a pastime. He could’ve done those things but not because he was a good person. If someone likes setting people on fire and there’s a huge fire that wipes out a villa and then the person who likes setting people on fire then builds a statue of himself then it’s not gonna look good for ya no matter how much you provided for the people in need.
@carolinahernandez627 to be fair setting Christians on fire back then wasn't really that big of a deal, but it did make him look bad when Christians eventually were the majority group. And he killed them for political reasons, trying to shift the blame of the fire onto them, and many leaders have done this before. And as for the statue, that really isn't a big deal, building statues of yourself when you're a king or emperor is sort of expected
He actually had nothing to do with the fire and rebuilt the city in a improved manner for the ppl & also to avoid fire to spread in the same manner . Tho tho he also used the fire to build quite major stuff for himself which was expensive and unnecessary. Which wasnt to popular.
It took me a while to understand the meaning of that phrase. But yes! This has to be the most elegant way of saying it! I have to admit it: Romans were crazy, but they spoke with style.
Nero was 30 miles away from Rome while it burned and as soon as a messenger told him ab it he rushed to Rome and did everything he could to stop the spread of the fire, and even made building codes to prevent future fires on top of generally taking care of the people displaced by it. The fire is the most common myth about his reign
K. But than why didn’t Nero rebuild the people houses instead of building his sinus aurea? Like Nero did nOT cause the fire but he probably took advantage of it.
@@richardrich8010 Do you seriously think he's the worst or do you just say that as a joke? If we did a list of the most terrible/psychopathic rulers, pretty sure he won't even be in the top 100.
Wouldnt have rose to power. He is a dumb guy who got lucky, he didnt have to use his brain to rise to politics it was given to him. Even for faulty country systems like Russia and China the leaders have had to be somewhat capable and intelligent to rise, their political power wasnt hand to them for them to destroy humanity. Not even Stalin, Mao.
@@chrissosa3723 Nero's rule has literally been the most chaotic We shall be lucky if we don't go for a world war,but if he gets another term Surely a world war is inevitable
@@iamready4846 Nero's rule favored common folk. However with so many incongruent part of his story, you could say he has either amazing PR team or he made enemies with the historians of his time and they made a complete slander.
Historian Student here! It is unclear if Nero really was responsible for the fire. It is true that he was accused for it, but we never know if he really was responsible for it, bcs there are also arguments that he wasn't it, like the fact that many buildings in Rom were really close to each other and were build out of materials that can easily catch fire
It happened from time to time because how roman apartement buildings are. They are just fire hazards waiting to happen. Its something that happened when 1,6 million people are crammed in one city with tenements so close to each other.....
There is only one difference between a psycho path and a sociopath in my opinion both r terrifying but one is tragic. A psychopath is born with no emotions it’s physical area of the brain that is dysfunctional; a sociopath is made and 90% of the time it’s Becuase of cruel upbringing, in other words they lose their emotions do to a traumatic childhoods as a defense mechanism to not suffer.
@@iaamara8434no he’s right psychopaths are generally thought of as being born while sociopaths are made. Psychopaths tend to lack emotion while sociopaths tend to feel them even more then normal people, but mostly just anger.
@@blissr6277Yes but there are definitely big differences in a sociopath vs psychopath’s personality and I’m not completely sure what the specific differences are but if I’m correct I think sociopaths are paths are more impulsive, less self controlled, and I’m not sure what the word is but Ig less intelligent. Psychopaths are more strategic, less impulsive, and better at manipulation.
@@Relax-vb8in No I'm serious about this. Psychopaths feel no remorse and are born unable to, so they usually only become sadistic people who like to torture and kill people, manipulative but not powerful. Sociopaths become tyrants because they can care, but choose not to. Since they have some ounce of empathy they know they'll need to wait and become powerful. Not a psychologist, just a history nerd and always been obsessed with mental illness.
Mike Duncan did a series for ancient rome, he points out the rumors in the video to be just rumors. Nero never started the fire, he never slept with his mother, and he never played the lyre while the fire was burning down rome. He had his mother executed because she was about to betray him for his step brother, since the previous emperor claudis had a biological son and nero was his stepson. Nero's mother married Claudis and convinced him to have her son be the crown prince instead of his son. She was manipulative and deceiving and when Nero no longer listened to her she plotted to remove him and have his step brother become the new emperor. Roman history is difficult so take it with a grain of salt with some of the material.
Nero also executed his wife (daughter of Cladius) to marry Poppea Sabina. After her death he marry a boy who look like her (idk if that boy getting castratred or not) . Nero also poisoned his step bro in front of everyone at party as warning to his mother and wife.
@@passerby7112 exactly! Even though most of his story was made up by rumors, it is also said that he murdered his stepbrother with poisoned mushrooms. Since the guy probably suffered from epilepsy nobody helped him during the banquet. There is no actual proof of what happened of course, but some time later Nero declered mushrooms food of the gods. A lot of these is probably bs by the way according to modern historians. Since the annals were written by the noble class it was proven that all the emperors who supported the plebe were discredited one way or another in officials documents. Plus , Nero's story was heavily distorted by christian scholars over the centuries.
@josephantonio5564 I know a little of Nero, I had to re learn some things since Mike Duncan pointed it out during his podcast. Making me go on a search to see what he said was true or not and to my surprise he was right. What happened with the fire in Rome is just as a mystery today as it was back then, Nero wasn't in rome at the time before and during the fire so he couldn't have started the fire or play the lyre while the city burned. And once he heard of the fire he gave orders to stop the fire and help the citizens.
Nero did not fiddle while Rome burned. He wasn't even in the city, when he heard of the fire, he rushed back with a fire brigade & let the people stay in his palace However he miscalculated by using the damage of the city to build a statue of himself & a few other things. He took advantage of the situation but to the people it looked like he started the fire just to build the statue Which is untrue
@@BLu3RayDiskRang3Hey, guess what? Before stricter moral conditions being emplaced on cultures, literally fucking everybody was like that. Even in the Bible it tells of how shitty people were without religion being spread and encouraged. God had to destroy his own people in a great flood to make them understand that they can't live like they were. It has nothing to do with race. It's about morality.
@ajaybatik4457 if you wanna show respect to the tiger that bite you one time, then you do you. But making that kind of Bastard impotent is best punishment and reward for future generations
Please don't forget that the sources on these emperors are biased and limited. It's well possible that Nero only gets his bad rep because history as we know it was written by his political enemies.
@@StarwarsfanArmy not everyone is serious when they are writing or commenting on some random shorts. It's never that serious bfr 💀And yes I have rubbish autocorrect what you gonna do? Buy me new phone? If you had so much problem just scroll and grow up 😭
Nero wasn’t in Rome at the time of the fire, he was in Antium, 35 miles outside of Rome. He reportedly rushed back as soon as he got news of the fire. It was July and it’s usually quite hot and dry, the dry and hot winds wouldn’t have helped once the fire started. The fire is believed to have began in a workshop near the circus Maximus. Whilst Nero did build his golden palace, he also led the reconstruction efforts and a lot of the archaeological sites in Rome today were built during his reign because of the fire. When the fire happened, a lot of buildings were made of wood. That wouldn’t have helped.
Nero was guilty of many horrible things, but one thing he did NOT do was start the Great Fire. He wasn't even in the city when it happened, but he raced back as soon as he heard the news. He even let ordinary citizens who's homes were burnt down sleep in his palace afterwards.
@@SahihChristian The surviving sources for Nero are mainly Suetonius and Tacitus, who (a) were not contemporary with Nero, (b) were anti-Julio-Claudian, and (c) were both from the senatorial order which Nero antagonized quite thoroughly during his reign. The people loved him, and there are reports of lost histories of Nero which paint him in a positive light which are now sadly lost. Minor surviving sources are Dio Chrysostom: "Indeed the truth about this has not come out even yet; for so far as the rest of his subjects were concerned, there was nothing to prevent his continuing to be Emperor for all time, seeing that even now everybody whishes he were still alive. And the great majority do believe that he still is, although in a certain sense he has died not once but often along with those who had been firmly convinced that he was still alive." And Josephus: "Nor do I wonder at such as have told lies of Nero, since they have not in their writings preserved the truth of history as to those facts that were earlier than his time, even when the actors could have no way incurred their hatred, since those writers lived a long time after them."
What people don't understand about Nero is that he is a product his mother that was orchestrating everything for him since he was a child so that is a product of her lust for power and her manipulation which ultimately got her killed by the very weapon she was building.
@ddjj8 there's also the fact that the senate and the rich hated him....and the senate and the rich are responsible for writing history, some people say that the general public probably still liked him
@@ibraheemshuaib8954 I understand where you are coming from but too many text verify his cruelty and twisted ways. The public had no choice but to validate him because even when he would sing, he required the public to treat him like he was the best and most talented. It wasn't that the public loved him, they loved their lives and not being fed to lions or burned alive to light the pathways.
Actually, he never played the lyre while Rome burned, that's just a rumor to make him seem evil during a kind of good thing he did. He wasn't even in Rome when the fire started and returned to Rome as soon as he heard it was burning. If I remember correctly, he actually helped romans with money or housing after the fire, but he did indeed build a bigger palace for himself. He was still a horrible person, but not in reference to the fire.
@@Chadius_Thundercockthen why improved Nero the Roman city design for the next century by ordering more space between buildings, wider roads and less wood to be used? 🤦♂️
Yes in fact it was tjeir 1st Emperor Augustus or formerly k own as Octavios but after being killed by his wife via posioning his son Emperor Tiberius i Think thats his name tookover whom was a bad emperor as well. (The problem with Agustus is that He WAS a GOOD EMPEROR so the Romans though hey maybe having a emperor isint really bad at all) so when they hv a bad one they just murder n replaced him.
Vespasian liked art and literature. He was not born to be a nobleman but was born into the middle/ working class Also Trajan was quite popular. Many buildings were set up during bis reign. (Trajan pillar, Forum Trajani, Trajan Bridge, termal baths..) He was also a soldier and expanded the Roman Empire. Constantin the First the Great. He founded Constantinople alias nowadays Istanbul. His military troops liked him. He became a Cristian and reformed the Roman Empire.
In fact, a lot of the horrific fact that he was accused of were mad up by Tite Live, an Roman historian who didn't like him, and so wrote his now knows book.
Aside from this, was there counter evidence that Nero didn't do these things? I mean he did build a 100' bronze statue of himself as a God along with a massive palace where the fire destroyed the city. And an emperor has the power to punish anyone who says anything to contradict him no matter how true.
@@lperea21Buddy, that was common custom in Roman historiography. Most historians were members of the senate and when an emperor treated the senate without respect they made him look like an evil maniac after his reign. The same happened with Caligula before, who was neither evil nor crazy, he just behaved like an asshat towards the senate.
@@elektrik_exekutioner6822 I get that, but like I said, aside from the theory that everyone hated the emperor (even though most emperors didn't seemed to have this issue), and that some things that were said seemed too extreme, was there any real evidence that it wasn't true? Thousands of years from now will Hitler be made into the victim of misunderstood contemporary historians? And what will they say about Trump? Was he just hated, or was there a legitimate reason for the hatred?
@@lperea21 What do you mean, is there any evidence against it? There's no evidence FOR it. If you voice an accusation you have to prove it, but there is no proof for that accusation.
@@elektrik_exekutioner6822 i actually did say that there was evidence. He built a 100' bronze naked statue of himself as a God and a massive palace in the heart of the city. This goes along with the megalomaniacal emperor and contradicts his benevolent "caring for the victims of the fire" story.
As a historian this video hurts me. The incest allegations were political propraganda, his supposed burning of Rome has been studied for years and the consensus is that he didn't do it. The persecution of Christians wasn't Nero's thing it had already been happening for some time, and Nero truly believed they were guilty since to this day we don't know who did it or if it was even intentional. But yes he was extremely cruel with Christians. But Nero was considered a good and popular emperor, The Senate hated him and his Mother was in fact plotting behind the scenes in politics, that isn't anything new, relatives of roman emperors always did and kept doing this for centuries to come, and many were executed for it just like Nero's mother. The truth is, Nero wasn't a demon or the worse Emperor in human history, he was just another one among many. The reason people focus on how bad he is, it's simply because Christians hated him and thus created many lies about him that some people wrongfully believe to this day. Stop spreading Misinformation
@@Yopops764 Nero's deed being overblown due to writers that recorded it past his death is literally the most basic fact about someone that studies the julio-claudian roman dynasty. History not being black and white is the most basic thing any historian should know, mister "expert"
A little correction: Nero wasn't in Rome during the fire. He was in his summer residence in Antium and came to Rome days later. Then he watched the fire from a nearby aqueduct, not from a balcony, because the imperial palace on Palatine hill was one of the first buildings to burn down completely.
Nero was not present during the fires of Rome. Not only was he not present, once he found out about the fire, he quickly organized a relief for the victims, also allowing them to take refuge in his villas. Nero is probably one of the most misunderstood emperors and while not a good man, was definitely not evil and as derange as Caligula who was literally insane. Edit: not to mention that Nero was loved by the common proletarii and just the majority of the people of Rome. Second Edit: Also don’t forget about Emperor Elagabalus who is (arguably) worse than Caligula. Just a total madman and psychopath and sadist.
yeah this vid is very one-sided. they only took from the most popular sources when talking about Nero. and failed to mention that the people absolutley loved Nero, especially the plebes and lower classes.
@@longforgotten4823he also was anti christian which is another reason he is painted in a bad light. Additionally the flavian emperors ultimately succeeding him (after Galba, Otho and Vitellius) had interest in painting Nero and most other Julian emperors (excluding Augustus) in a bad light to present themselves as better.
He's the one who crucified peter upside down, the hippie peace symbol being a representation of this violent act. He was an anti christ with substantial power.
The peace symbol has got nothing to do with that, what the fuck are you on about? The peace symbol is a mix between the N and the D of the flag semaphore alphabet and it stands for Nuclear Disarmament, which was designed in 1958 for the Aldertin march against nuclear war. Ence why it has evolved into representing peace.
I was reading that even though the account that Peter was crucified upside down is apocryphal (never accepted by the church) it is accepted as fact by christians.
& the peace sign doesn't originate from this, that's a very narrow "Christan/Catholic American view point". The peace symbol came from a man name named Gerald Holtom, to symbolized "nuclear disarmament" it's not a damn upside down/cut in half cross. It's called semaphore signals
First thought before clicking jn was "I bet this will be Nero." 😂 On a serious note, i learned a lot in such a short video that I had not known about Emperor Nero yet. Wow.
Caligula. But the thing was though Caligula was bat shit crazy. Nero was just a plain narcissistic psychopath. Caligula was Nero's uncle btw so it runs in the family.
Actually Nero isn't responsible for the Fire of Rome. He was accused by the writer and historican Publius Cornelius Tacitus in the Annales 15,38, but in fact this could never have been proven. In fact he wasn't even in Rome during the fire and Nero helped those, who lost their homes by the fire because he paid rebuilding the houses himself.
First, his mother was a fierce politician, and she managed to make her son the emperor so she could control him and the empire. That is why it is speculated that the Senate wanted her dead and did not charge Nero with the crime of killing his own mother, which was punishable by death. Secondly, Nero was in a villa away from Rome when the fire was ignited, and when he heard the news, he immediately rushed to Rome's aid. Nero was a person who was generally liked by the masses, but the elites hated him, so they made a lot of propaganda against him. Although he, like many other emperors, was not such a great human being, he was still not as bad as the media wants you to believe he was since the average human being confronted with such great power at such a young age would develop bad personality traits.
As a student of ancient languages i have finally the opportunity to do something useful with my studies. All the information we have about nero come from historians who were politically opposed to Nero, so many scholars, and also me, think it's all exaggeration or fiction.
Although a cruel man Nero didn't burn down Rome that was a rumor created by his competitors to destroy his reputation. Numerous sources indicate that Nero was on holiday when Rome burnt down
@@harini218 Ik it is romans, I am a fate fan Nero was the most iconic out of all the roman servants, she (yes he got genderbent) calls her citizens roma (which is also the way japanese call rome)
Of course this is how Nero is remembered, the people he hated soon came into power after his demise and have continued to rule ever since... Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
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Well actualy that rumor about burning rome and much more of it was spread by his political enemies and was far from what it trully was, he was a man who rather never didnt want to be the emperor but simply get manipulated into it by his mother, title of the worst emperor goes to the Elagabalus and Tiberius, nor Nero or even Caligula arent the "worst"...
I f*cking hate Nero, he's my least favorite emperor.
@@ashurdraco1510oh I thought you were talking about Americans lmao jk
@@AirTheHuntressElagabalus made me lmao tbh.
He was crazy af.
I heard Nero was hated and many lies were made up by him.
But that fkn story about his wife and turning some boy into his wife and cutting his penis off is pretty fucking insane.
@@DEATH14269 It was also partiali made up, that "cutting" couldnt have place simply because he would rather bleed out to death, he actualy by sources just resembled his wife Nero was desperate boy was more "feme" so he just dressed up as a woman, in the clothes of the Neros wife because she was a strong political figure and he after she died couldnt lose such "strenght", it was just a part of mistification to protect the throne....
Dude, nero's husband is the most unfortunate man in history, that he was forced to marry a maniac.
If I recall Nero also had his penis removed. Yeah he was a pretty messed up dude.
@@blakejones6206 that was Elagabalus
@@blakejones6206 poor dude was castrated because he looked like someone else
Damn
Was nero gay
When a psychopath gains power.
Sounds like joe
Potato
He wasn't a psychopath.
@Man cry more. Bulldozer incoming lol
@@elektrik_exekutioner6822💔💔💔🐶
Bro took "mother f*cker" to a whole new level
You son of a bitch you almost made me choke on my cereal😂😂
Where do you think that saying came from?
He has no idea, or does he?
@@freedomisntfree131 From someone who likes milfs ig lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dude literally bought an express ticket to hell 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Irony is that even the Pagan Gods he claimed to worship Standards Would send this dude to Agony for Eternity.
All I can Picture is Jesus and Zeus Looking down on this Guy and Calling a Truce just to create the most elaborate punishment imaginable for this Guy when he dies.😂
@@LiamMacD LMAO
@@LiamMacDHe even looted and burned down the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, burned the Pythia (basically the Greek pantheon’s pope) alive and enslaved her priestesses. So Greek pantheon definitely wanted to flying elbow him into Tartarus. 😂
@@LiamMacDzues? You serious?
Nero is the reason why there needs to be a check system in politics today to counter irresponsible decisions.
Dont make me laugh, tho its still funny that you said it 😂 "a check system in politics" you are good at stand up comedy i bet
@@_ALUCARD_625You think rools don't apply to politicians? Or what's your point...
I agree...
@@_ALUCARD_625🤡
@@_ALUCARD_625👻🤡🤡
He’d be considered a mid-tier 4chan user today
4chan users don’t have sex with anyone though?
@@llllIllIIl😂😂
@@llllIllIIlno but they fantasize about sleeping with their moms
yeah seriously Nero, that shit WEAK
@@llllIllIIlthey do with men
damn i feel so bad for that boy...
Right?!👀
Also the wife that literally died pregnant:) right
What boy?
@@indra22entol73 seriously?
poor kid. what happened to him afterwards? did he have to be castrated? couldn't nero just pretend? why did he kill his wife? why did he sleep with his mother?
Bro went straight to hell, no judgement needed
Flavian Propaganda
@BBredChi😂😮ll
Hell doesn't exist
Nero was a tyrant, but he was not in Rome during the fire, but he did use the area to build a bigger palace.
Didn't he also immediately come back and build shelters for the fire victims and insured food for them? He also built a market and also a public bathhouse of very high quality for even the average man to use, this was around the same time he was building his Palace.
@@ibraheemshuaib8954what’s for sure is that he built a big ass statue of himself and set Christians on fire as a pastime. He could’ve done those things but not because he was a good person. If someone likes setting people on fire and there’s a huge fire that wipes out a villa and then the person who likes setting people on fire then builds a statue of himself then it’s not gonna look good for ya no matter how much you provided for the people in need.
@carolinahernandez627 to be fair setting Christians on fire back then wasn't really that big of a deal, but it did make him look bad when Christians eventually were the majority group. And he killed them for political reasons, trying to shift the blame of the fire onto them, and many leaders have done this before. And as for the statue, that really isn't a big deal, building statues of yourself when you're a king or emperor is sort of expected
He actually had nothing to do with the fire and rebuilt the city in a improved manner for the ppl & also to avoid fire to spread in the same manner . Tho tho he also used the fire to build quite major stuff for himself which was expensive and unnecessary. Which wasnt to popular.
@@ibraheemshuaib8954 you are really keen on defending a psychopath. Aren't you?
Hahahhaa bro literally went “his father should have been gay” so Nero never came about😂
his father shouldve kicked his mothers belly..
@@Ajcarter95what shit are you guys talking? You should probably be the wife then.
@@soldier7332wtf
It took me a while to understand the meaning of that phrase. But yes! This has to be the most elegant way of saying it!
I have to admit it: Romans were crazy, but they spoke with style.
His own father even said that there could be no good by something that was 'made' by him and Agrippina
That one Nobleman roasted Nero so hard 💀
Fr💀💀
Call me slow 🐌 🐌 🐌 but I didn’t fully understand that last statement by the nobleman
Enlighten me please?
@@hadast3806 if his father had married the boy, nero wouldn't have been born
@@mlaraibsaeed Got it! 😆
@@mlaraibsaeed he also said too bad it didn’t happen basically 😭
This is why you never should give someone too much power
He unironicaly said “shut up mom”
He also un ironically said “f you mom”
@@AngelBien💀
@@AngelBienand “I will f you mom”
Sweet home rome
@@AngelBienIs it really Angel Bien your name?
@@Lucas-eb6qs why? It’s a common name
bro fr became bisexual💀💀💀💀☠️
You don't "become" a bisexual, you're born with it
😂 One of the disgusting acts in the video
@@ShayyanAliYou think it's disgusting to be bisexual?
He just married that Boy because the Boy looked like his late wife.
Thats crazy
Hes not bi, he saw him kinda as a girl. He looked like his ex
Even Satan himself said “ yeah I don’t want this guy here”
Nero was 30 miles away from Rome while it burned and as soon as a messenger told him ab it he rushed to Rome and did everything he could to stop the spread of the fire, and even made building codes to prevent future fires on top of generally taking care of the people displaced by it. The fire is the most common myth about his reign
Thank you was wondering were this comment would be.
I was just about to comment that. Roman politics. Somebody's gotta take the fall.
K. But than why didn’t Nero rebuild the people houses instead of building his sinus aurea?
Like Nero did nOT cause the fire but he probably took advantage of it.
@@dianazheng5737I mean everyone takes advantage of tragedies. Happened with 9/11
He's still horrible
So that's why Vergil won't pay his child support
Bro 😂
💀 (Im still not gonna pay child support)
thats right
I was searching a dmc comment finally I've found one 😭
😂😂😂😂
Nero: I am the worst emperor
Elagabalus: Are you sure about that?
Caligula: where TF am I?
Ivan the terrible: MY rubles are too good, why not take a sit?
There were so many horrible rulers that it really isn't possible to pinpoint one as the worst.
@@Emperor_Marcellusobumer hold my beer
@@richardrich8010 Do you seriously think he's the worst or do you just say that as a joke? If we did a list of the most terrible/psychopathic rulers, pretty sure he won't even be in the top 100.
Nero wasn’t in Rome while the fire started there, he was informed about it later. He was in his vacation home at the coast, I believe
Bro took “no balls” to a whole new level
Im convinced Nero was born in the right era, had he born now he wouldn't have hesitated on starting nuclear WW3
Wouldnt have rose to power. He is a dumb guy who got lucky, he didnt have to use his brain to rise to politics it was given to him. Even for faulty country systems like Russia and China the leaders have had to be somewhat capable and intelligent to rise, their political power wasnt hand to them for them to destroy humanity. Not even Stalin, Mao.
Biden would be Nero now
@@iamready4846 what did Nero do to you that made you insult him like that?
@@chrissosa3723 Nero's rule has literally been the most chaotic
We shall be lucky if we don't go for a world war,but if he gets another term
Surely a world war is inevitable
@@iamready4846 Nero's rule favored common folk. However with so many incongruent part of his story, you could say he has either amazing PR team or he made enemies with the historians of his time and they made a complete slander.
Thank god a legion was able to subdue him due to Nero's reckless behavior.
Bro literally checked off every box of evil. 💀
Historian Student here! It is unclear if Nero really was responsible for the fire. It is true that he was accused for it, but we never know if he really was responsible for it, bcs there are also arguments that he wasn't it, like the fact that many buildings in Rom were really close to each other and were build out of materials that can easily catch fire
It happened from time to time because how roman apartement buildings are. They are just fire hazards waiting to happen. Its something that happened when 1,6 million people are crammed in one city with tenements so close to each other.....
"he regretted that later" I'm telling you, psychopaths only ever get to the serial killer level. Sociopaths get all the way to the tyrant level.
There is only one difference between a psycho path and a sociopath in my opinion both r terrifying but one is tragic. A psychopath is born with no emotions it’s physical area of the brain that is dysfunctional; a sociopath is made and 90% of the time it’s Becuase of cruel upbringing, in other words they lose their emotions do to a traumatic childhoods as a defense mechanism to not suffer.
@@blissr6277 Are you sure its not the other way around ?
@@iaamara8434no he’s right psychopaths are generally thought of as being born while sociopaths are made. Psychopaths tend to lack emotion while sociopaths tend to feel them even more then normal people, but mostly just anger.
@@blissr6277Yes but there are definitely big differences in a sociopath vs psychopath’s personality and I’m not completely sure what the specific differences are but if I’m correct I think sociopaths are paths are more impulsive, less self controlled, and I’m not sure what the word is but Ig less intelligent. Psychopaths are more strategic, less impulsive, and better at manipulation.
@@Relax-vb8in No I'm serious about this. Psychopaths feel no remorse and are born unable to, so they usually only become sadistic people who like to torture and kill people, manipulative but not powerful. Sociopaths become tyrants because they can care, but choose not to. Since they have some ounce of empathy they know they'll need to wait and become powerful. Not a psychologist, just a history nerd and always been obsessed with mental illness.
Mike Duncan did a series for ancient rome, he points out the rumors in the video to be just rumors. Nero never started the fire, he never slept with his mother, and he never played the lyre while the fire was burning down rome. He had his mother executed because she was about to betray him for his step brother, since the previous emperor claudis had a biological son and nero was his stepson. Nero's mother married Claudis and convinced him to have her son be the crown prince instead of his son. She was manipulative and deceiving and when Nero no longer listened to her she plotted to remove him and have his step brother become the new emperor. Roman history is difficult so take it with a grain of salt with some of the material.
What about castrating n marrying a boy/man
@@lataracalloway3636i dont think he castrated him but he did marry him
Nero also executed his wife (daughter of Cladius) to marry Poppea Sabina. After her death he marry a boy who look like her (idk if that boy getting castratred or not) .
Nero also poisoned his step bro in front of everyone at party as warning to his mother and wife.
@@passerby7112 exactly! Even though most of his story was made up by rumors, it is also said that he murdered his stepbrother with poisoned mushrooms. Since the guy probably suffered from epilepsy nobody helped him during the banquet. There is no actual proof of what happened of course, but some time later Nero declered mushrooms food of the gods. A lot of these is probably bs by the way according to modern historians. Since the annals were written by the noble class it was proven that all the emperors who supported the plebe were discredited one way or another in officials documents. Plus , Nero's story was heavily distorted by christian scholars over the centuries.
@josephantonio5564 I know a little of Nero, I had to re learn some things since Mike Duncan pointed it out during his podcast. Making me go on a search to see what he said was true or not and to my surprise he was right. What happened with the fire in Rome is just as a mystery today as it was back then, Nero wasn't in rome at the time before and during the fire so he couldn't have started the fire or play the lyre while the city burned. And once he heard of the fire he gave orders to stop the fire and help the citizens.
Nero did not fiddle while Rome burned. He wasn't even in the city, when he heard of the fire, he rushed back with a fire brigade & let the people stay in his palace
However he miscalculated by using the damage of the city to build a statue of himself & a few other things. He took advantage of the situation but to the people it looked like he started the fire just to build the statue
Which is untrue
The Roman Empire was literally savage.
Nero: acknowledge me!!!!!
Yep, even the original white colonists were like that
@@BLu3RayDiskRang3Hey, guess what? Before stricter moral conditions being emplaced on cultures, literally fucking everybody was like that.
Even in the Bible it tells of how shitty people were without religion being spread and encouraged. God had to destroy his own people in a great flood to make them understand that they can't live like they were.
It has nothing to do with race. It's about morality.
@@BLu3RayDiskRang3these were their ancestors. Savages.
@@Sheperdsdaughterpeople in charge were savages not the Italian people overall
Literally how can a person kick the belly of her wife while she was pregnant 😢
by lifting his leg and pushing forward
@@Pharaoh_Tutankhamen of course a human with no respect for other gender would do that
@@ajaybatik4457fr
@ajaybatik4457 if you wanna show respect to the tiger that bite you one time, then you do you.
But making that kind of Bastard impotent is best punishment and reward for future generations
@@ajaybatik4457how is it gender? He would've done the same thing with males
Vergil: this is why i left you nero.
😂😂😂😂
Finally 😂
Your right
Please don't forget that the sources on these emperors are biased and limited. It's well possible that Nero only gets his bad rep because history as we know it was written by his political enemies.
nero didnt watch rome burn playing a lyre he was in his house 30 miles away
I feel so sad for nero's husband, and her dead wife and kid
@@StarwarsfanArmy not everyone is serious when they are writing or commenting on some random shorts. It's never that serious bfr 💀And yes I have rubbish autocorrect what you gonna do? Buy me new phone? If you had so much problem just scroll and grow up 😭
That was the most tragic bromance tragedyb💀☠️
I’m sorry but I still think it’s to soon to make jokes about his husband/wife
If the Romans were brave enough to kill Caesar for being a tyrant why wouldn't they do the same to Nero
Zuckerberg just used this tactic on Maui! 😢
Damn Suckerberg did that?
Nero wasn’t in Rome at the time of the fire, he was in Antium, 35 miles outside of Rome. He reportedly rushed back as soon as he got news of the fire. It was July and it’s usually quite hot and dry, the dry and hot winds wouldn’t have helped once the fire started. The fire is believed to have began in a workshop near the circus Maximus. Whilst Nero did build his golden palace, he also led the reconstruction efforts and a lot of the archaeological sites in Rome today were built during his reign because of the fire. When the fire happened, a lot of buildings were made of wood. That wouldn’t have helped.
@@caseyjones513 I agree
Caligula: “Am I a joke to you now?”
tbf they both did genuinely horrific things, itd be hard to tell which is worse
Caligula had brain damage from his injury. Before that he was actually a kind person. But for some reason his injury made him a ruthless psychopat.
caligula is a much better emperor before the illness
@@jozefmasny8349huh
I think I saw a case of that in. Dr. HOUSE. Its incredible what illness can do to a human being.
The fun fact is that caligula is the uncle of nero..
Actualy nowdays is given almost for sure that he is innocent about the fire of Rome
Nero: “No one is more wicked than I”
Tiberius: “Hold my beer.”
Bro really went back to his spawn point 💀
And became the father of his brother.
@@krizjamz9823really 😂, please explain more
He also ordered the deaths of Apostle Paul and Peter.
Isn't Paul the guy who edited and corrupted the bible?
True
Christian ruin Rome
@@Bashbekersjiwpraise to God
The only good thing he did.
I think bro was a victim of his mother and that's why he acted like this. It's all a reaction out of trauma he couldn't address.
Nero was guilty of many horrible things, but one thing he did NOT do was start the Great Fire. He wasn't even in the city when it happened, but he raced back as soon as he heard the news. He even let ordinary citizens who's homes were burnt down sleep in his palace afterwards.
Hard to tell since most of Nero's accounts were penned by his enemies.
Even better, they were penned by popular historians trying to sell books.
Hard to tell?? So how many historian spoke good good of him? Everyone just happened to hate him. Funny
@@SahihChristian The surviving sources for Nero are mainly Suetonius and Tacitus, who (a) were not contemporary with Nero, (b) were anti-Julio-Claudian, and (c) were both from the senatorial order which Nero antagonized quite thoroughly during his reign. The people loved him, and there are reports of lost histories of Nero which paint him in a positive light which are now sadly lost.
Minor surviving sources are Dio Chrysostom:
"Indeed the truth about this has not come out even yet; for so far as the rest of his subjects were concerned, there was nothing to prevent his continuing to be Emperor for all time, seeing that even now everybody whishes he were still alive. And the great majority do believe that he still is, although in a certain sense he has died not once but often along with those who had been firmly convinced that he was still alive."
And Josephus:
"Nor do I wonder at such as have told lies of Nero, since they have not in their writings preserved the truth of history as to those facts that were earlier than his time, even when the actors could have no way incurred their hatred, since those writers lived a long time after them."
What people don't understand about Nero is that he is a product his mother that was orchestrating everything for him since he was a child so that is a product of her lust for power and her manipulation which ultimately got her killed by the very weapon she was building.
And people also need to realise that not all that is said bout Nero is true. He was more or less an average emperor in terms of cruelty
@@ibraheemshuaib8954 I don't know about average but he was definitely getting a run for his money when you look at Elegalbas and Caligula.
@ddjj8 there's also the fact that the senate and the rich hated him....and the senate and the rich are responsible for writing history, some people say that the general public probably still liked him
@@ibraheemshuaib8954 I understand where you are coming from but too many text verify his cruelty and twisted ways. The public had no choice but to validate him because even when he would sing, he required the public to treat him like he was the best and most talented. It wasn't that the public loved him, they loved their lives and not being fed to lions or burned alive to light the pathways.
@@ddjj8 fair, if only we had Internet back then, would've been a lot easier to confirm what is true and what is not.
most of what this video mention is acknowledged hearsay. Or slander from his political opponents.
Set fire for expansion, sounds familiar🤔
Actually, he never played the lyre while Rome burned, that's just a rumor to make him seem evil during a kind of good thing he did. He wasn't even in Rome when the fire started and returned to Rome as soon as he heard it was burning. If I remember correctly, he actually helped romans with money or housing after the fire, but he did indeed build a bigger palace for himself. He was still a horrible person, but not in reference to the fire.
Who says he had to be in Rome to order the fires? Obviously Nero wouldn’t do it himself
@@Chadius_Thundercock Nero rly did not set rome in fire.. study history pls
@@Chadius_Thundercockthen why improved Nero the Roman city design for the next century by ordering more space between buildings, wider roads and less wood to be used?
🤦♂️
Did Rome ever had good emperors ?🇦🇺
Yes in fact it was tjeir 1st Emperor Augustus or formerly k own as Octavios but after being killed by his wife via posioning his son Emperor Tiberius i Think thats his name tookover whom was a bad emperor as well. (The problem with Agustus is that He WAS a GOOD EMPEROR so the Romans though hey maybe having a emperor isint really bad at all) so when they hv a bad one they just murder n replaced him.
Octavian the 🐐
Vespasian liked art and literature. He was not born to be a nobleman but was born into the middle/ working class Also Trajan was quite popular. Many buildings were set up during bis reign. (Trajan pillar, Forum Trajani, Trajan Bridge, termal baths..) He was also a soldier and expanded the Roman Empire. Constantin the First the Great. He founded Constantinople alias nowadays Istanbul. His military troops liked him. He became a Cristian and reformed the Roman Empire.
@@sunfire369 Constantine "the great" murdered his family. He was no different than any other Roman emperor.
Five Good Emperors
If the dude from the bud light commercial became emperor..
imagine still falling for propaganda 2000 years later🤣
So Nero was the Roman Hitler.....
there were many (if not worse) hitlers in history
Probably worse...
That would be Hadrian, he killed 1 million jews and destroyed the Jewish homeland.
@@lperea21 definitely a lot worse
@@lperea21 worse than any Japanese war criminal one could argue
In fact, a lot of the horrific fact that he was accused of were mad up by Tite Live, an Roman historian who didn't like him, and so wrote his now knows book.
Aside from this, was there counter evidence that Nero didn't do these things? I mean he did build a 100' bronze statue of himself as a God along with a massive palace where the fire destroyed the city. And an emperor has the power to punish anyone who says anything to contradict him no matter how true.
@@lperea21Buddy, that was common custom in Roman historiography. Most historians were members of the senate and when an emperor treated the senate without respect they made him look like an evil maniac after his reign. The same happened with Caligula before, who was neither evil nor crazy, he just behaved like an asshat towards the senate.
@@elektrik_exekutioner6822 I get that, but like I said, aside from the theory that everyone hated the emperor (even though most emperors didn't seemed to have this issue), and that some things that were said seemed too extreme, was there any real evidence that it wasn't true?
Thousands of years from now will Hitler be made into the victim of misunderstood contemporary historians? And what will they say about Trump? Was he just hated, or was there a legitimate reason for the hatred?
@@lperea21 What do you mean, is there any evidence against it? There's no evidence FOR it. If you voice an accusation you have to prove it, but there is no proof for that accusation.
@@elektrik_exekutioner6822 i actually did say that there was evidence. He built a 100' bronze naked statue of himself as a God and a massive palace in the heart of the city. This goes along with the megalomaniacal emperor and contradicts his benevolent "caring for the victims of the fire" story.
As a historian this video hurts me. The incest allegations were political propraganda, his supposed burning of Rome has been studied for years and the consensus is that he didn't do it.
The persecution of Christians wasn't Nero's thing it had already been happening for some time, and Nero truly believed they were guilty since to this day we don't know who did it or if it was even intentional. But yes he was extremely cruel with Christians.
But Nero was considered a good and popular emperor, The Senate hated him and his Mother was in fact plotting behind the scenes in politics, that isn't anything new, relatives of roman emperors always did and kept doing this for centuries to come, and many were executed for it just like Nero's mother.
The truth is, Nero wasn't a demon or the worse Emperor in human history, he was just another one among many. The reason people focus on how bad he is, it's simply because Christians hated him and thus created many lies about him that some people wrongfully believe to this day.
Stop spreading Misinformation
This
As a former expert historian you seem like a person who just started history sit down please because you’re wrong
@@Yopops764 Nero's deed being overblown due to writers that recorded it past his death is literally the most basic fact about someone that studies the julio-claudian roman dynasty. History not being black and white is the most basic thing any historian should know, mister "expert"
@@maracabo1176 ok chill lil bro 🙏🙏🙏😭😭😭 do you know what a joke is?
You sound like you just don’t like Christian’s tbh
Ah yes Nero played a lyre on the balcony, an instrument made king after his time 💀😂
A little correction: Nero wasn't in Rome during the fire. He was in his summer residence in Antium and came to Rome days later.
Then he watched the fire from a nearby aqueduct, not from a balcony, because the imperial palace on Palatine hill was one of the first buildings to burn down completely.
I don't know why he had to be in Rome to orchestrate the fire. Kings and Emperors rarely did the dirty work themselves.
@@timothyhaines556 exactly!!!
@@timothyhaines556 you're sooo right 🤣
@@timothyhaines556History written by his enemies shouldnt be trusted
@@petrospetromixos6962. He did build the palace in the burn scar.
That boy in his mothers belly was saved by God
Even the Joker fears this man 💀
someone hasn’t heard of Caligula then
Nero was not present during the fires of Rome. Not only was he not present, once he found out about the fire, he quickly organized a relief for the victims, also allowing them to take refuge in his villas. Nero is probably one of the most misunderstood emperors and while not a good man, was definitely not evil and as derange as Caligula who was literally insane.
Edit: not to mention that Nero was loved by the common proletarii and just the majority of the people of Rome.
Second Edit: Also don’t forget about Emperor Elagabalus who is (arguably) worse than Caligula. Just a total madman and psychopath and sadist.
Agreed this video is very misleading with the great fire during Nero’s reign
yeah this vid is very one-sided. they only took from the most popular sources when talking about Nero. and failed to mention that the people absolutley loved Nero, especially the plebes and lower classes.
Caligula was funny
Nero was good
The people liked him in the aristocracy did not, which is why we still have these myths today. Pretty standard for a Roman emperor, if you ask me.
@@longforgotten4823he also was anti christian which is another reason he is painted in a bad light. Additionally the flavian emperors ultimately succeeding him (after Galba, Otho and Vitellius) had interest in painting Nero and most other Julian emperors (excluding Augustus) in a bad light to present themselves as better.
He's the one who crucified peter upside down, the hippie peace symbol being a representation of this violent act. He was an anti christ with substantial power.
Yet he wasn't actually in Rome when Rome burned, he was in the countryside at a private estate. Nero only fiddled over the Roman candles.
The peace symbol has got nothing to do with that, what the fuck are you on about? The peace symbol is a mix between the N and the D of the flag semaphore alphabet and it stands for Nuclear Disarmament, which was designed in 1958 for the Aldertin march against nuclear war. Ence why it has evolved into representing peace.
I was reading that even though the account that Peter was crucified upside down is apocryphal (never accepted by the church) it is accepted as fact by christians.
& the peace sign doesn't originate from this, that's a very narrow "Christan/Catholic American view point". The peace symbol came from a man name named Gerald Holtom, to symbolized "nuclear disarmament" it's not a damn upside down/cut in half cross. It's called semaphore signals
He didn't care that much 😄
Elagabalus and Caligula: We're the worst emperors ever
Nero: hold my husband
Bro is literally the real homelander
He’s not any worse then every other tyrant and conqueror in history
Well, he's up there...
Along with Caligula!😱😖🤮
He wouldn't make it up there. Try burning in hell.
And Commodus
In heaven?
Nero started the alphabet gang 😂😂😂
Lol no, it was a thing way before him
Judaism and middle easterners invented it
First thought before clicking jn was "I bet this will be Nero." 😂 On a serious note, i learned a lot in such a short video that I had not known about Emperor Nero yet. Wow.
He was crazy , yes mad and bad..
But i believe there were worst than him
Like who?
@@saya_miguel_akunlama3008 Caligula
He was neither crazy nor mad.
Recimer, though he wasn't an emperor
Caligula. But the thing was though Caligula was bat shit crazy. Nero was just a plain narcissistic psychopath. Caligula was Nero's uncle btw so it runs in the family.
Those Romans sure did love boys
Just like liberals
And like the leftists.
Conservatives prefer young girls
@@arins8114and Republicans
@@thirdstrike4uand Republicans
Poor young man and at the same time, he must've felt every inch of tyranny from Nero to be filled up from his prostrate.
Nero also manipulated Meg-
Toa fans will understand
Actually Nero isn't responsible for the Fire of Rome. He was accused by the writer and historican Publius Cornelius Tacitus in the Annales 15,38, but in fact this could never have been proven. In fact he wasn't even in Rome during the fire and Nero helped those, who lost their homes by the fire because he paid rebuilding the houses himself.
Caligula, Elagabalus, Commodus, and Caracalla did more damage
Elagabalus was just way more distusting, Nero at least kept the power for some years.
First, his mother was a fierce politician, and she managed to make her son the emperor so she could control him and the empire. That is why it is speculated that the Senate wanted her dead and did not charge Nero with the crime of killing his own mother, which was punishable by death. Secondly, Nero was in a villa away from Rome when the fire was ignited, and when he heard the news, he immediately rushed to Rome's aid. Nero was a person who was generally liked by the masses, but the elites hated him, so they made a lot of propaganda against him. Although he, like many other emperors, was not such a great human being, he was still not as bad as the media wants you to believe he was since the average human being confronted with such great power at such a young age would develop bad personality traits.
This guy is a culmination of multiple human deadly sins
because of him,NERO burning disc software was created
wHeN iN ThE hIsToRy Of MaNkInD wErE cHrIsTiAnS eVeR pErSeCuTeD?!?
He regretted and did what 😅😅😅seriously a psychopath
Nero's dad left without paying child support what would ya expect.
Oh this is Roman emperor I thought it was DMC 5
A good example of excessive power that you can't handle can drive you insane.
Congratulations, your videos are fabulous...
Bro was the Chris Chan of his era 💀💀💀
Now I know who George R R Martin based the targaryens on man these Roman emperors were nuts
Just a story about Nero. It isn’t true with rome and Nero causing the fire or just being egoistic about it
Seems like Roman Emperors used to have some psychotic problems
We'll never know the horrors that boy went through. There is no way the kid complied. Rip to his soul. Hes in peace now
Nero was suspected of starting the fire but seeing as it’s thousands of years ago, we can’t actually know if he did
lol replacing his wife with a femboy who looks like her .Sigma male
You and Nero are gay beta males
my man created the first femboy💀
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
As a student of ancient languages i have finally the opportunity to do something useful with my studies. All the information we have about nero come from historians who were politically opposed to Nero, so many scholars, and also me, think it's all exaggeration or fiction.
But when you look at his immediate impacts on Rome and the sheer quantity of these reports it’s kind of hard to not believe them
Bro's a total rollercoaster of lunacy and misery 💀
Nero loved drag queen story time at school when he was a child
Yeah, he even made sure the custom never dies down. That's why they do it today, in honor of Nero
No one:
Nero making the most craziest life chooses, so that he can astound the generations to come.
Although a cruel man Nero didn't burn down Rome that was a rumor created by his competitors to destroy his reputation. Numerous sources indicate that Nero was on holiday when Rome burnt down
The thing with power is that some sore loser will slander them
Gen Z are the new generation roman.
Lol... Great thesis. So brief too
I am proud of roma
@@daboi6509I think you mean romans cuz Roma are a different ethnicity.
@@harini218 Ik it is romans, I am a fate fan Nero was the most iconic out of all the roman servants, she (yes he got genderbent) calls her citizens roma (which is also the way japanese call rome)
Love it
Bro could’ve just picked up a third wife nahhh he had to force a dude into it💀💀
Of course this is how Nero is remembered, the people he hated soon came into power after his demise and have continued to rule ever since... Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
This video is full of fallacies. They need to do their homework.