Even the president appeared to draw the comparison with the Roman emperor.
Nero, a descendant of Julius Caesar, was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in 37 A.D.; his mother, Agrippina, conspired by an incestuous marriage to make Nero the next in line for the throne. Her husband/uncle, the emperor Claudius, died by poisoning soon after, making Nero, 16 or 17 at the time, the fifth emperor of Rome.Agrippina attempted to rule via her son but was soon exiled and later executed. And as Nero grew into a young man, he was kind of always DTFF — down to feast and frolic.
Then, in 64 A.D., Nero announced he wanted to level and rebuild most of the city in a more contemporary style. The Senate refused him permission. Soon afterward, the whole city caught on fire. It burned for six days straight, then rekindled and burned for three more. Ten of Rome’s 14 districts were destroyed. And Nero soon began to build his massive “Golden House” on its smoldering ashes.until the Middle Ages. But he maybe played his lyre?” that Nero was 30 miles away in Antium at the time, “but at the very moment when Rome was aflame, he had mounted his private stage, and typifying the ills of the present by the calamities of the past, had sung the destruction of Troy.
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