A statue of Nero resides in Anzio, Italy, his hometown.
A statue of Nero resides in Anzio, Italy, his hometown.
Rethinking Nero
He killed two of his wives and possibly his mother. He may have presided over the burning of Rome. But he never fiddled, and now some scholars say he wasn’t all bad.
This story appears in the September 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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