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  2. Nero and the Burning of Rome - Wikipedia

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    Nero and the Burning of Rome (Italian: Nerone e Messalina) is a 1953 Italian epic historical drama film directed by Primo Zeglio and loosely based on real life events of Roman emperor Nero. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was based on the novel Nerone e Messalina (c.1949) by Harry Bluhmen.

  3. Great Fire of Rome - Wikipedia

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    Nero watched from his palace on the Palatine Hill, singing and playing the lyre. [25] Nero openly sent out men to set fire to the city. Nero watched from the Tower of Maecenas on the Esquiline Hill while singing. [26] Nero sent out men to set fire to the city. There were unconfirmed rumors that Nero sang from a private stage during the fire. [27]

  4. Sporus - Wikipedia

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    Sporus (died 69 AD) was a young slave boy whom the Roman emperor Nero had castrated and married as his empress during his tour of Greece in 66–67 AD, allegedly in order for him to play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina, who had died the previous year.

  5. Nero - Wikipedia

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    Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (/ ˈ n ɪər oʊ / NEER-oh; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was a Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68.

  6. Nero’s theater — where audience may have sat on ‘pain of ...

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    The Roman elite despised Emperor Nero’s “artistic endeavors,” a historian said. Nero’s theater — where audience may have sat on ‘pain of death’ — discovered in Rome Skip to main ...

  7. Quo Vadis (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Nero is composing a poem about the burning of Troy, and expresses regret at never having seen a real city burning. Later, the courtiers are shocked when news comes that Rome is aflame . Vinicius rides back to Rome to save Lygia, and Peter baptizes him on the spot after he rescues Lygia and him from the flames.

  8. List of historical films set in Near Eastern and Western ...

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    Rome during the reign of Nero: Quo Vadis: 1985: 54–68: Rome during the reign of Nero: Quo Vadis: 2001: 54–68: Rome during the reign of Nero: Nero and the Burning of Rome: 1953: 54–68: Rome during the reign of Nero: Nero's Mistress: 1956: 55: depicts a visit by the Roman Emperor Nero and his entourage to a coastal villa. The Viking Queen ...

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