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,...