Nero
In Our Time: History
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The Roman Empire - The Great Fire of Rome
I would say i think a lot of the criticism after fire about the palace, it's because of misguided reconstruction. The economic damage of that firewould ave been enormous. We can tell, for example, that the coinage gets to base. There are real economic stresses in the system. And in trying to tackle os with limited means at his disposal, he incurred a lot of unpopularity. But by and large, the ship, the ship of the empire was, was reasonably steady. He did appeal to maria can mary. Why can't we talk about his ther agrappina, the younger who got him there, who supported him there,. Who gave him good advice
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