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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out a WEB SITE
Student Work:
Alicia
A.
Kira
H.
Project designed and implemented by
Lee Burnett and the eighth grade Latin students of Germantown
Academy.
February 2002