The Great Fire of Rome
The Ancients
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The Great Fire of Rome
The story of the Great Fire of Rome has been passed down to us in present day can't you and so people like yourself are trying to sort the fact from the fiction it must be an extraordinarily difficult task. I think I'd like to actually talk a little bit more about the notion of Nero fiddling well Rome burned and how it's caught on with English language culture because of the word fiddle which is funny because it's not what Nero played but I think because the word fiddled also means things like sort of waste time or something nefarious. So yeah you can very much see the Flavian legacy in how the story of theGreat Fire of Rome have been passed down through generations.
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