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What did Nero do while Rome burned?

He certainly did not play the violin, which was invented only in the XNUMXth century.

Even Nero was accused of the fact that in 64, when Rome was engulfed in fire, he allegedly sang a song about burning Troy, hinting that he himself had set up all this arson.

In fact, when the fire broke out, Nero was 56 km from Rome, at his dacha on the coast. Hearing the terrible news, Nero immediately rode to the burning city and personally led the work to extinguish the fire. The suspicion that Nero wanted to burn Rome may have arisen from the ambitious plans he repeatedly expressed to completely rebuild the Great City.

Now a few words about what Nero really did. This man was a transvestite who liked to dress up in a woman's dress, sing, play musical instruments and organize orgies. By order of Nero, his own mother was killed. He was very proud of his musical ability; it is believed that his last words were:

"What a great artist the world is losing!"

Nero is said to have often accompanied himself on the kithara (a relative of the lyre), but he also played the bagpipe.

Dio Chrysostomos, the Greek rhetorician and philosopher, writing in the year 100, noted:

"They say he can write, carve statues, and play the aulos with his mouth and armpit, under which he puts an inflated sack."

At the beginning of the XNUMXth century, the Greek historian Procopius mentioned that bagpipes were a popular instrument in the Roman infantry, while the cavalry favored the trumpet.

Nero also invented ice cream (messengers brought him mountain snow, where they then added fruit juice), and his personal poisoner, the master Locusta, became the first officially registered serial killer in history.

Locusta is translated as "lobster" or "locust": the Latin language uses the same word in both meanings.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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