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April 05, 2002
Rome burnt. Nero played the what?
In 64 A.D. a fire broke out in Rome's slum. It burnt for a week and voraciously consumed acre after acre of the district. Nero who was away at the time returned immediately. He opened up his palace to the homeless and assisted in the rebuilding. So moved was he by the scene that he composed a song about the burning of Troy. (Romans believed that Trojans had founded Rome). The fiddle required several centuries of human toil to be invented. It is presumed Nero might have had to make do with the lyre.
A rumor arose that Nero had started the fire to build a new palace. Sensing the anger that was fermenting Nero's aides started a counter rumor blaming the Christians.
Posted at April 5, 2002 08:59 PM