Well actualy that rumor about burning rome and much more of it was spread by his political enemies and was far from what it trully was, he was a man who rather never didnt want to be the emperor but simply get manipulated into it by his mother, title of the worst emperor goes to the Elagabalus and Tiberius, nor Nero or even Caligula arent the "worst"...

I f*cking hate Nero, he's my least favorite emperor.

​@@ashurdraco1510oh I thought you were talking about Americans lmao jk

​@@AirTheHuntressElagabalus made me lmao tbh. He was crazy af. I heard Nero was hated and many lies were made up by him. But that fkn story about his wife and turning some boy into his wife and cutting his penis off is pretty fucking insane.

@@DEATH14269 It was also partiali made up, that "cutting" couldnt have place simply because he would rather bleed out to death, he actualy by sources just resembled his wife Nero was desperate boy was more "feme" so he just dressed up as a woman, in the clothes of the Neros wife because she was a strong political figure and he after she died couldnt lose such "strenght", it was just a part of mistification to protect the throne....

If I recall Nero also had his penis removed. Yeah he was a pretty messed up dude.

@@blakejones6206 that was Elagabalus

​@@blakejones6206 poor dude was castrated because he looked like someone else

Damn

Was nero gay

Sounds like joe

Potato

He wasn't a psychopath.

@Man cry more. Bulldozer incoming lol

​@@elektrik_exekutioner6822💔💔💔🐶

You son of a bitch you almost made me choke on my cereal😂😂

Where do you think that saying came from?

He has no idea, or does he?

@@freedomisntfree131 From someone who likes milfs ig lol

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The Irony is that even the Pagan Gods he claimed to worship Standards Would send this dude to Agony for Eternity. All I can Picture is Jesus and Zeus Looking down on this Guy and Calling a Truce just to create the most elaborate punishment imaginable for this Guy when he dies.😂

@@LiamMacD LMAO

⁠​⁠@@LiamMacDHe even looted and burned down the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, burned the Pythia (basically the Greek pantheon’s pope) alive and enslaved her priestesses. So Greek pantheon definitely wanted to flying elbow him into Tartarus. 😂

​@@LiamMacDzues? You serious?

Dont make me laugh, tho its still funny that you said it 😂 "a check system in politics" you are good at stand up comedy i bet

​@@_ALUCARD_625You think rools don't apply to politicians? Or what's your point...

I agree...

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4chan users don’t have sex with anyone though?

​@@llllIllIIl😂😂

​@@llllIllIIlno but they fantasize about sleeping with their moms

yeah seriously Nero, that shit WEAK

​@@llllIllIIlthey do with men

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Call me slow 🐌 🐌 🐌 but I didn’t fully understand that last statement by the nobleman Enlighten me please?

​@@hadast3806 if his father had married the boy, nero wouldn't have been born

@@mlaraibsaeed Got it! 😆

@@mlaraibsaeed he also said too bad it didn’t happen basically 😭

Right?!👀

Also the wife that literally died pregnant:) right

What boy?

@@indra22entol73 seriously?

poor kid. what happened to him afterwards? did he have to be castrated? couldn't nero just pretend? why did he kill his wife? why did he sleep with his mother?

Didn't he also immediately come back and build shelters for the fire victims and insured food for them? He also built a market and also a public bathhouse of very high quality for even the average man to use, this was around the same time he was building his Palace.

@@ibraheemshuaib8954what’s for sure is that he built a big ass statue of himself and set Christians on fire as a pastime. He could’ve done those things but not because he was a good person. If someone likes setting people on fire and there’s a huge fire that wipes out a villa and then the person who likes setting people on fire then builds a statue of himself then it’s not gonna look good for ya no matter how much you provided for the people in need.

@carolinahernandez627 to be fair setting Christians on fire back then wasn't really that big of a deal, but it did make him look bad when Christians eventually were the majority group. And he killed them for political reasons, trying to shift the blame of the fire onto them, and many leaders have done this before. And as for the statue, that really isn't a big deal, building statues of yourself when you're a king or emperor is sort of expected

He actually had nothing to do with the fire and rebuilt the city in a improved manner for the ppl & also to avoid fire to spread in the same manner . Tho tho he also used the fire to build quite major stuff for himself which was expensive and unnecessary. Which wasnt to popular.

​@@ibraheemshuaib8954 you are really keen on defending a psychopath. Aren't you?

his father shouldve kicked his mothers belly..

​@@anneececarterwhat shit are you guys talking? You should probably be the wife then.

​@@soldier7332wtf

It took me a while to understand the meaning of that phrase. But yes! This has to be the most elegant way of saying it! I have to admit it: Romans were crazy, but they spoke with style.

Flavian Propaganda

​@BBredChi😂😮ll

Hell doesn't exist

He also un ironically said “f you mom”

​@@AngelBien💀

@@AngelBienand “I will f you mom” Sweet home rome

​@@AngelBienIs it really Angel Bien your name?

@@Lucas-eb6qs why? It’s a common name

You don't "become" a bisexual, you're born with it

😂 One of the disgusting acts in the video

​@@ShayyanAliYou think it's disgusting to be bisexual?

He just married that Boy because the Boy looked like his late wife. Thats crazy

Hes not bi, he saw him kinda as a girl. He looked like his ex

Thank you was wondering were this comment would be.

I was just about to comment that. Roman politics. Somebody's gotta take the fall.

K. But than why didn’t Nero rebuild the people houses instead of building his sinus aurea? Like Nero did nOT cause the fire but he probably took advantage of it.

@@dianazheng5737I mean everyone takes advantage of tragedies. Happened with 9/11

He's still horrible

Caligula: where TF am I?

Ivan the terrible: MY rubles are too good, why not take a sit?

There were so many horrible rulers that it really isn't possible to pinpoint one as the worst.

@@Emperor_Marcellusobumer hold my beer

@@richardrich8010 Do you seriously think he's the worst or do you just say that as a joke? If we did a list of the most terrible/psychopathic rulers, pretty sure he won't even be in the top 100.

Bro 😂

💀 (Im still not gonna pay child support)

thats right

I was searching a dmc comment finally I've found one 😭

😂😂😂😂

It happened from time to time because how roman apartement buildings are. They are just fire hazards waiting to happen. Its something that happened when 1,6 million people are crammed in one city with tenements so close to each other.....

Wouldnt have rose to power. He is a dumb guy who got lucky, he didnt have to use his brain to rise to politics it was given to him. Even for faulty country systems like Russia and China the leaders have had to be somewhat capable and intelligent to rise, their political power wasnt hand to them for them to destroy humanity. Not even Stalin, Mao.

Biden would be Nero now

@@iamready4846 what did Nero do to you that made you insult him like that?

@@chrissosa3723 Nero's rule has literally been the most chaotic We shall be lucky if we don't go for a world war,but if he gets another term Surely a world war is inevitable

@@iamready4846 Nero's rule favored common folk. However with so many incongruent part of his story, you could say he has either amazing PR team or he made enemies with the historians of his time and they made a complete slander.

What about castrating n marrying a boy/man

​@@lataracalloway3636i dont think he castrated him but he did marry him

Nero also executed his wife (daughter of Cladius) to marry Poppea Sabina. After her death he marry a boy who look like her (idk if that boy getting castratred or not) . Nero also poisoned his step bro in front of everyone at party as warning to his mother and wife.

​@@passerby7112 exactly! Even though most of his story was made up by rumors, it is also said that he murdered his stepbrother with poisoned mushrooms. Since the guy probably suffered from epilepsy nobody helped him during the banquet. There is no actual proof of what happened of course, but some time later Nero declered mushrooms food of the gods. A lot of these is probably bs by the way according to modern historians. Since the annals were written by the noble class it was proven that all the emperors who supported the plebe were discredited one way or another in officials documents. Plus , Nero's story was heavily distorted by christian scholars over the centuries.

@josephantonio5564 I know a little of Nero, I had to re learn some things since Mike Duncan pointed it out during his podcast. Making me go on a search to see what he said was true or not and to my surprise he was right. What happened with the fire in Rome is just as a mystery today as it was back then, Nero wasn't in rome at the time before and during the fire so he couldn't have started the fire or play the lyre while the city burned. And once he heard of the fire he gave orders to stop the fire and help the citizens.

by lifting his leg and pushing forward

@@Pharaoh_Tutankhamen of course a human with no respect for other gender would do that

​@@ajaybatik4457fr

​@ajaybatik4457 if you wanna show respect to the tiger that bite you one time, then you do you. But making that kind of Bastard impotent is best punishment and reward for future generations

​@@ajaybatik4457how is it gender? He would've done the same thing with males

There is only one difference between a psycho path and a sociopath in my opinion both r terrifying but one is tragic. A psychopath is born with no emotions it’s physical area of the brain that is dysfunctional; a sociopath is made and 90% of the time it’s Becuase of cruel upbringing, in other words they lose their emotions do to a traumatic childhoods as a defense mechanism to not suffer.

@@blissr6277 Are you sure its not the other way around ?

@@iaamara8434no he’s right psychopaths are generally thought of as being born while sociopaths are made. Psychopaths tend to lack emotion while sociopaths tend to feel them even more then normal people, but mostly just anger.

@@blissr6277Yes but there are definitely big differences in a sociopath vs psychopath’s personality and I’m not completely sure what the specific differences are but if I’m correct I think sociopaths are paths are more impulsive, less self controlled, and I’m not sure what the word is but Ig less intelligent. Psychopaths are more strategic, less impulsive, and better at manipulation.

@@Relax-vb8in No I'm serious about this. Psychopaths feel no remorse and are born unable to, so they usually only become sadistic people who like to torture and kill people, manipulative but not powerful. Sociopaths become tyrants because they can care, but choose not to. Since they have some ounce of empathy they know they'll need to wait and become powerful. Not a psychologist, just a history nerd and always been obsessed with mental illness.

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Finally 😂

Your right

Nero: acknowledge me!!!!!

Yep, even the original white colonists were like that

​@@BLu3RayDiskRang3Hey, guess what? Before stricter moral conditions being emplaced on cultures, literally fucking everybody was like that. Even in the Bible it tells of how shitty people were without religion being spread and encouraged. God had to destroy his own people in a great flood to make them understand that they can't live like they were. It has nothing to do with race. It's about morality.

​@@BLu3RayDiskRang3these were their ancestors. Savages.

@@Sheperdsdaughterpeople in charge were savages not the Italian people overall

@@StarwarsfanArmy not everyone is serious when they are writing or commenting on some random shorts. It's never that serious bfr 💀And yes I have rubbish autocorrect what you gonna do? Buy me new phone? If you had so much problem just scroll and grow up 😭

I’m sorry but I still think it’s to soon to make jokes about his husband/wife

@@caseyjones513 I agree

tbf they both did genuinely horrific things, itd be hard to tell which is worse

Caligula had brain damage from his injury. Before that he was actually a kind person. But for some reason his injury made him a ruthless psychopat.

caligula is a much better emperor before the illness

​@@jozefmasny8349huh I think I saw a case of that in. Dr. HOUSE. Its incredible what illness can do to a human being.

The fun fact is that caligula is the uncle of nero..

Isn't Paul the guy who edited and corrupted the bible?

True

Christian ruin Rome

​@@gozerofgozmis4181praise to God

The only good thing he did.

Yes in fact it was tjeir 1st Emperor Augustus or formerly k own as Octavios but after being killed by his wife via posioning his son Emperor Tiberius i Think thats his name tookover whom was a bad emperor as well. (The problem with Agustus is that He WAS a GOOD EMPEROR so the Romans though hey maybe having a emperor isint really bad at all) so when they hv a bad one they just murder n replaced him.

Octavian the 🐐

Vespasian liked art and literature. He was not born to be a nobleman but was born into the middle/ working class Also Trajan was quite popular. Many buildings were set up during bis reign. (Trajan pillar, Forum Trajani, Trajan Bridge, termal baths..) He was also a soldier and expanded the Roman Empire. Constantin the First the Great. He founded Constantinople alias nowadays Istanbul. His military troops liked him. He became a Cristian and reformed the Roman Empire.

@@sunfire369 Constantine "the great" murdered his family. He was no different than any other Roman emperor.

Five Good Emperors

This

As a former expert historian you seem like a person who just started history sit down please because you’re wrong

@@Vegito_gotdripandcigaretemario Nero's deed being overblown due to writers that recorded it past his death is literally the most basic fact about someone that studies the julio-claudian roman dynasty. History not being black and white is the most basic thing any historian should know, mister "expert"

@@maracabo1176 ok chill lil bro 🙏🙏🙏😭😭😭 do you know what a joke is?

You sound like you just don’t like Christian’s tbh

And became the father of his brother.

​@@krizjamz9823really 😂, please explain more

And people also need to realise that not all that is said bout Nero is true. He was more or less an average emperor in terms of cruelty

@@ibraheemshuaib8954 I don't know about average but he was definitely getting a run for his money when you look at Elegalbas and Caligula.

@ddjj8 there's also the fact that the senate and the rich hated him....and the senate and the rich are responsible for writing history, some people say that the general public probably still liked him

@@ibraheemshuaib8954 I understand where you are coming from but too many text verify his cruelty and twisted ways. The public had no choice but to validate him because even when he would sing, he required the public to treat him like he was the best and most talented. It wasn't that the public loved him, they loved their lives and not being fed to lions or burned alive to light the pathways.

@@ddjj8 fair, if only we had Internet back then, would've been a lot easier to confirm what is true and what is not.

Damn Suckerberg did that?

Yet he wasn't actually in Rome when Rome burned, he was in the countryside at a private estate. Nero only fiddled over the Roman candles.

The peace symbol has got nothing to do with that, what the fuck are you on about? The peace symbol is a mix between the N and the D of the flag semaphore alphabet and it stands for Nuclear Disarmament, which was designed in 1958 for the Aldertin march against nuclear war. Ence why it has evolved into representing peace.

I was reading that even though the account that Peter was crucified upside down is apocryphal (never accepted by the church) it is accepted as fact by christians.

& the peace sign doesn't originate from this, that's a very narrow "Christan/Catholic American view point". The peace symbol came from a man name named Gerald Holtom, to symbolized "nuclear disarmament" it's not a damn upside down/cut in half cross. It's called semaphore signals

He didn't care that much 😄

there were many (if not worse) hitlers in history

Probably worse...

That would be Hadrian, he killed 1 million jews and destroyed the Jewish homeland.

@@lperea21 definitely a lot worse

@@lperea21 worse than any Japanese war criminal one could argue

I don't know why he had to be in Rome to orchestrate the fire. Kings and Emperors rarely did the dirty work themselves.

​@@timothyhaines556 exactly!!!

@@timothyhaines556 you're sooo right 🤣

​@@timothyhaines556History written by his enemies shouldnt be trusted

@@petrospetromixos6962. He did build the palace in the burn scar.

Even better, they were penned by popular historians trying to sell books.

Hard to tell?? So how many historian spoke good good of him? Everyone just happened to hate him. Funny

@@SahihChristian The surviving sources for Nero are mainly Suetonius and Tacitus, who (a) were not contemporary with Nero, (b) were anti-Julio-Claudian, and (c) were both from the senatorial order which Nero antagonized quite thoroughly during his reign. The people loved him, and there are reports of lost histories of Nero which paint him in a positive light which are now sadly lost. Minor surviving sources are Dio Chrysostom: "Indeed the truth about this has not come out even yet; for so far as the rest of his subjects were concerned, there was nothing to prevent his continuing to be Emperor for all time, seeing that even now everybody whishes he were still alive. And the great majority do believe that he still is, although in a certain sense he has died not once but often along with those who had been firmly convinced that he was still alive." And Josephus: "Nor do I wonder at such as have told lies of Nero, since they have not in their writings preserved the truth of history as to those facts that were earlier than his time, even when the actors could have no way incurred their hatred, since those writers lived a long time after them."

Who says he had to be in Rome to order the fires? Obviously Nero wouldn’t do it himself

@@Chadius_Thundercock Nero rly did not set rome in fire.. study history pls

@@Chadius_Thundercockthen why improved Nero the Roman city design for the next century by ordering more space between buildings, wider roads and less wood to be used? 🤦‍♂️

Aside from this, was there counter evidence that Nero didn't do these things? I mean he did build a 100' bronze statue of himself as a God along with a massive palace where the fire destroyed the city. And an emperor has the power to punish anyone who says anything to contradict him no matter how true.

​@@lperea21Buddy, that was common custom in Roman historiography. Most historians were members of the senate and when an emperor treated the senate without respect they made him look like an evil maniac after his reign. The same happened with Caligula before, who was neither evil nor crazy, he just behaved like an asshat towards the senate.

@@elektrik_exekutioner6822 I get that, but like I said, aside from the theory that everyone hated the emperor (even though most emperors didn't seemed to have this issue), and that some things that were said seemed too extreme, was there any real evidence that it wasn't true? Thousands of years from now will Hitler be made into the victim of misunderstood contemporary historians? And what will they say about Trump? Was he just hated, or was there a legitimate reason for the hatred?

@@lperea21 What do you mean, is there any evidence against it? There's no evidence FOR it. If you voice an accusation you have to prove it, but there is no proof for that accusation.

@@elektrik_exekutioner6822 i actually did say that there was evidence. He built a 100' bronze naked statue of himself as a God and a massive palace in the heart of the city. This goes along with the megalomaniacal emperor and contradicts his benevolent "caring for the victims of the fire" story.

Agreed this video is very misleading with the great fire during Nero’s reign

yeah this vid is very one-sided. they only took from the most popular sources when talking about Nero. and failed to mention that the people absolutley loved Nero, especially the plebes and lower classes.

Caligula was funny Nero was good

The people liked him in the aristocracy did not, which is why we still have these myths today. Pretty standard for a Roman emperor, if you ask me.

@@longforgotten4823he also was anti christian which is another reason he is painted in a bad light. Additionally the flavian emperors ultimately succeeding him (after Galba, Otho and Vitellius) had interest in painting Nero and most other Julian emperors (excluding Augustus) in a bad light to present themselves as better.

Like who?

@@saya_miguel_akunlama3008 Caligula

He was neither crazy nor mad.

Recimer, though he wasn't an emperor

Caligula. But the thing was though Caligula was bat shit crazy. Nero was just a plain narcissistic psychopath. Caligula was Nero's uncle btw so it runs in the family.

Just like liberals

And like the leftists.

Conservatives prefer young girls

​@@arins8114and Republicans

​@@thirdstrike4uand Republicans

He wouldn't make it up there. Try burning in hell.

And Commodus

In heaven?

You and Nero are gay beta males

Elagabalus was just way more distusting, Nero at least kept the power for some years.

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Lol... Great thesis. So brief too

I am proud of roma

@@daboi6509I think you mean romans cuz Roma are a different ethnicity.

@@harini218 Ik it is romans, I am a fate fan Nero was the most iconic out of all the roman servants, she (yes he got genderbent) calls her citizens roma (which is also the way japanese call rome)

Love it

If I remember well, the idea that Nero was the responsable of the fire came out from the common people and was supported also by pagan hystorians who hated him, not by catholics.

​@@nikocesari The church promoted the ideas of his enemies

There was also no proof for him sleeping with his mom, or doing many of the things he did. He also did a lot for the fire victims such as building temporary shelters and insuring food. He also built a market and a large public bathhouse for the general public.

​@ibraheemshuaib8954 maybe it's just a rumor

His history was written by his enemies Church needed a villain as well, the fire started by fanatical christians most likely the considered Rome the city of Satan they were skinning people alive as well or burning them

But they burned Rome

Eh just wait until you find out about Diocletian

Yeah, he even made sure the custom never dies down. That's why they do it today, in honor of Nero