Create Playlist. Select the Station you want to upload this audio to. Playlist Icon Image:. Subscribe Subscribed. Password reset sent. Passwords must be match. Update If you still need help, contact Vurbl Support. Your voice matters. Email Address. You must be signed in to view your notifications. Please sign in. Type station name to add additional tags. Some even believed he had ordered the fire started, especially after he used land cleared by the fire to build his Golden Palace and its surrounding pleasure gardens.
Nero himself blamed the Christians then an obscure religious sect for the fire, and had many arrested and executed. But while Nero may have been guilty of many things, the story of him fiddling while Rome burned belongs firmly in the category of popular legend rather than established truth.
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As usual, so called "historians" take old accounts using their biased lens. You must be of the devil to insinuate such evil. Like many things in ancient history, the Fiddle while Rome Burns phrase has probably lost its original meaning. Fiddle comes from the Latin Vitula which mean to dance around lively or to rejoice.
So if Nero was in fact participating in a play merriment he would have indeed been fiddling while Rome burned. Even if he did not realize it at the time. By the time of Shakespeare this original meaning would have been lost as Etymology did not become a study until the brothers Grimm began their collection of stories, thus they would have assumed it was with a Fiddle.
This is an interesting summary of the events. I hate to quibble, but I am wondering about one detail -- that Nero reduced the price of corn in the wake of the fire. Corn is a food not brought to Europe until after the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Do you perhaps mean another food staple, like wheat or barley? Ancient Origins has been quoted by:. At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings.
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Our open community is dedicated to digging into the origins of our species on planet earth, and question wherever the discoveries might take us. No fiddle but he did sing and play his lyre in public performances. He seems to have been quite a mixed bag as emperor. Big on Greek culture, theater, festivals, music, poetry, gymnastics, and horsemanship. He really wanted to be loved by his people and did things that benefited the lower classes. Good for Nero! He was also quite ruthless and had no qualms about ordering the death of anyone who displeased him or got in his way.
That group would include his still-scheming mother and his first wife. Back to that fire. He rebuilds Rome, mostly in the Greek style. Maybe the fiddling rumor came out of another rumor that he had the fire set while he was conveniently away because he needed an excuse to make the city over the way that he wanted it. We know that he was aware of the rumors because he tried to shift the blame to the early Christians.
I was not surprised to read that his end was bloody. Nero fled the city, and stabbed himself in the throat rather than face the humiliating execution.
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