Nero
In Our Time: History
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Do You Think He Set Fire to Rome?
i'd like to the christians think a bit more. Did he? Did he burn them because they were christians, or because they were a community creating that? It could easily be picked on wesper's. One way of thinking about it is that the church wants to present him,. em in the early period, as the first persecutor of the faith. But i think the mistake is to think that there's this large community, that they are a uttered for faith, that it happens in the colosseum. No, don't think he set fire to rome. They got there early.
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