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  2. Great Fire of Rome - Wikipedia

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    After the Great Fire of Rome occurred in July AD 64, it was rumored that Nero had ordered the fire to clear space for a new palace, the Domus Aurea. [6] [page needed] At the time of the fire Nero may not have been in the city but 35 miles away at his villa in Antium, [7] and possibly returned to the city before the fire was out. [8]

  3. Nero - Wikipedia

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    The Fire of Rome by Hubert Robert (1785) The Great Fire of Rome began on the night of 18 to 19 July 64, probably in one of the merchant shops on the slope of the Aventine overlooking the Circus Maximus, or in the wooden outer seating of the Circus itself. Rome had always been vulnerable to fires, and this one was fanned to catastrophic ...

  4. Domus Aurea - Wikipedia

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    The Domus Aurea (Latin, "Golden House") was a vast landscaped complex built by the Emperor Nero largely on the Oppian Hill in the heart of ancient Rome after the great fire in 64 AD had destroyed a large part of the city. [1] It replaced and extended his Domus Transitoria that he had built as his first palace complex on the site. [2] [3]

  5. Lost for centuries, Emperor Nero’s theater is unearthed in Rome

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    Ruins of a private theater belonging to the 1st century Roman Emperor Nero have been unearthed in the Italian capital just meters from the Vatican, in what experts are calling an “exceptional ...

  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. Nero's Torches - Wikipedia

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    It depicts a group of Early Christian martyrs who are about to be burned alive as the alleged perpetrators of the Great Fire of Rome, during the reign of emperor Nero in 64 AD. People from many different social spheres, including the emperor himself, are present to watch the burning, which takes place in front of the Domus Aurea.

  8. Domus Transitoria - Wikipedia

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    The Domus Transitoria (House of Passage) [1] was Roman emperor Nero's (r. 54 – 68) first palace damaged or destroyed by the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, and then extended by his Domus Aurea (or Golden House).

  9. Nero in the arts and popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The Emperor's Spy: The story of the Great Fire of Rome, featuring Nero as a secondary character. Riordan, Rick . 2016–2020. The Trials of Apollo : Nero and two other evil Roman emperors have survived into modern times because their infamy has essentially made them gods.