The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City

The never-before-told story of Rome's famous fire that destroyed the world's greatest city and its most notorious emperor: Nero.

In A.D. sixty-four, on the night of July nineteen, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium that spread to engulf much of Rome. From this calamity, one of the ancient world's most devastating events, legends grew—that Nero was responsible for the fire and fiddled while Rome burned and that he blamed the Christians and burned them alive as punishment,...