Nero
37-68 A.D.
Famous as the emperor who "fiddled
while Rome burned", Nero is one of the more interesting characters
to wear the imperial purple. The first five years of his reign were considered
the "Golden Time" of Imperial Rome. However, he was more passionate
about the arts and chariot racing than he wa about governing the Empire,
which soon made him extremely unpopular with the army and the Senate. Emotionally
and psychologically unstable, having a flare for the dramatic, and possessing
nearly unlimited resources made Nero a truly shocking figure at points during
his reign. On the good side, he was responsible for one of the greatest
flourishing of the arts in the history of Rome. In the end, several rebellions
and mutinees brought about his death through suicide. He was the last of
the Julio-Claudian emperors.
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