> Nero played the violin while rome burned xDD you realize

take it to the cracked.com forums, pseud

>>3004612
what

>>3004620
I'm saying this thread is utterly worthless and serves no purpose but to vault your pathetic ego over those imaginary 'others' who don't know this rather pointless tidbit of pop-history trivia.

Your thread is basically the thread equivalent of the fact on the inside of a Snapple cap.

>>3004610
He did take the opportunity to build a massive palace on the land the fire cleared, at the expense of the plebs who lost their homes. Succeeding emperors found the place embarrassing and refused to live there and eventually buried it and built over it

>>3004610
Noone believes this anymore. Everyone knows violins didn't even exist then.

Considering that Crassus built his fortune doing the exact same thing, it's not that far fetched to think that Nero either started the fire or deliberately let it spread.

>>3004634
Holy shit the fedora just came through my monitor like fucking Oddjob's bowler hat

>>3004610
>implying violins and fiddles are the same

>>3004610
It was a lyre.

>>3004610
>vitriolic, politically charged account of Nero from early xtians
Particularly funny considering modern historians do actually believe the fire was caused by extremist christians, spurred by the pisonian conspirators.

>>3004610
>violin existing in ancient rome
wut

>>3005998
He's right you know

>>3006452
>he
ah yes, the poster who definitely isnt you

>>3005998

No he is right, OP you are a faggot.

>>3008724
I'm not the first guy but he really was right. The only times I've heard about Nero and the fiddle was when people were acting smart for knowing that it never happened.

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>>3004610
I know right, he played the lyre.

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>>3004610

Nero is by far the most aesthetic Roman emperor.

>>3008764
>a Neckbeard
No