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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's Torches - Wikipedia

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    Nero offered his gardens for the spectacle, and was exhibiting a show in the circus, while he mingled with the people in the dress of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car. [ 2 ] Of note is that the signs attached to the feet of the condemned list their alleged crimes, and show the Alexamenos Graffito .

  6. Tacitus on Jesus - Wikipedia

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    Raymond E. Brown and John P. Meier state that in addition to establishing that there was a large body of Christians in Rome, the Tacitus passage provides two other important pieces of historical information, namely that by around AD 60 it was possible to distinguish between Christians and Jews in Rome and that even pagans made a connection ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Paul, Apostle of Christ - Wikipedia

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    Paul has been imprisoned inside Mamertine Prison in Rome for his strong influence as a Christian leader which makes him a threat to Nero's power. Mauritius Gallus, the newly appointed prefect of the prison, accuses Paul of burning half of Rome down and, by Nero's decree, sentences him to death.

  9. 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 ...