Nero And The Great Fire

Nero And The Great Fire




Nero, his real name was Lucius Donituis Ahenobarbus. He was only 16 yrs old when he inherited his spot as emperor. He was the youngest person, ever to become Emperor. With the finagling, and deception that his mother Agripia had that helped. Nero was the last connection to Julius Caesar. His mother wanted to play the role of the emperor; she wanted to control her son. Agripia wanted to tell Nero how to be ruler, how to do what she wanted done, but he was smarter than that. In 59 A.D. Nero had his mother murdered, and soon after that he had his wife Octavia murdered because she didn’t give him a son. After doing this he married his pregnant mistress Poppaea. Nero poisoned his stepbrother because he was jealous of him. Nero did make mistakes during his time as emperor, but all people in power do at some point or another. Nero was ruthless and sounds to be heartless also. If he even had a thought that somebody was trying to plot against ...