The Great Fire of Rome
The Ancients
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Nero and the Fire
The next year 65ad is there this massive conspiracy against Nero that might also have its roots in the fire. After the fire he loses a lot of credibility with leadership and i think even with the the provinces as well because he taxes apparently all of italy and a number of the eastern provinces very heavily to finance the rebuilding at ron. There are a lot of people involved in this allegedly the poet lukein who wrote the farsalia maybe the author patronius who possibly is the person who wrote the satiragon but people argue about this. It eventually involves even lukein's uncle the philosopher Seneca who had been Nero's tutor but they had kind of been on the outs actually
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