My Dad has a Bachelor’s degree in World History, and he told me the Roman Emperor Nero did that in cold-blood, and it happend at a Party, gosh, what other horrible, barbarous acts to Nero committ?
What else did he do that was Evil and cold-blooded? What a heartless douchebag he was.
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He actually had Christians turned into human torches for one of his parties. The poor Xtians were covered with tar and set ablaze, screaming and crying as they burned.
Yes he did. He also killed his mother, and had his first wife murdered as well.In ‘Chronilce of the Roman Emperors’ Chris Scarre writes:
‘Nero’s mother Agrippina exercised enormous influence over her son, and sought to rule the empire through him. At first he treated her with great deference, choosing ‘best of mothers’ as the watchword on the first day of his reign. Early in 55 however her guards were dismissed and she was expelled from the imperial palace. Finally, four years later, Nero decided that she too had to be removed. Abandoning the idea of poison, since Agrippina was alert to the danger and took careful precautions, he hit upon the scheme of an ‘accident’
During the Festival of Minerva in march 59 Nero invited Agrippina to dine with him at Baieae. For the return journey he put her aboard an especially fine vessel as if to do her honour. The ship had gone only a little way, however, when the mechanical death-trap came into play: a lead-weighted canopy collapsed on top of her; and she was only saved by the height of the couch sides. The ship was then intentionally capsized, but AGrippina was a strong swimmer. She managed to make it to the shore and reached one of her own villas, but soldiers were sent to finish her off.
In the year 58 Nero developed a passion for Poppae Sabina, a lady of great beauty. She was married to Marcus Otho, one of his closest companions, who used frequently to boast of his wife’s accomplishments. Soon Otho was appointed governor of Lusitania and Poppaea was sharing the emperor’s bed. The problem was that he was still married to Octavia, Claudius’s daughter, and the link with Octavia (though she was barren) was politically important. Only in 62 did Nero feel secure enough to divorce Octavia and marry Poppaea.
Octavia was first sent to Campania, then imprisoned on the island of Pandateria on a trumped-up charge of adultery. She wsa killed later in the year, and ina refinement of callousness her head was brought back to Rome for Poppaea to gloat over.
Poppaea herself did not survive long. She bore Nero an infant daughter Claudia on 21 January 63, but the child survived only four months. Then in the summer of 65, while pregnant a second time, Nero kicked her to death in a temper tantrum. He married Statila Messalina the following year, but then took up with the boy Sporus because he resembled Poppaea in appearance.’
In ‘The Twelve Caesars’ Suetonius describes many other murders committed by Nero;
‘There was no family relationship which Nero did not criminally abuse. When Claudius’s daughter Antonia refused to take Poppae’s place, he had her execuuted on a charge of attempted rebellion and destroyed every other member of his family, including relatives by marriage, in the same way. he committed an indecent assault on young Aulus Platuius and then put him to death. There was also his step-son Rufrius Crispinus, Poppaea’s child by her former husband. Nero had the boy’s own slaves drown him on afishijgn expedition simply because he was said to have played at being a general and an emperor. He promised Burrus, the Guards commander, a cough mixture, but instead sent poision: also poisoning the food and drink of the rich old freedmen who had originallyu arranged for him to be adopted as Claudius’s heir, and were now acting as his Privy Councillors.
Pretending to be disgusted by the drab old building and narrow, winding streets of Romen, he brazenly set fire to the City; and though aa group of ex-consuls caught his attendants, armed with oakum and blazing torches, trespassing on the property, they dared not interfere. This terror lasted for six days and seven nights, causing many people to take shelter in the tombs. ‘