A rumor had spread of Nero’s behavior during the fire: although he hadn’t fiddled while Rome burned, he had been singing. With Nero’s mother dead and his tutor retired, the emperor was ...

“Even Tacitus, the great accuser of Nero, writes that no one knows whether Rome burned from arson or by chance,” counters Ranieri Panetta. “Rome in Nero’s time had very narrow streets ...

Some said Trump was unintentionally comparing himself to the mad Roman emperor Nero — who, so the saying goes, "fiddled while Rome burned" Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been ...

THE Motaung family has one thing in common with Nero, Rome’s abominable emperor; they both fiddle while Rome is burning. Kaizer Chiefs, owned by Kaizer “Chincha Guluva” Motaung, are about to ...

4. Nero probably didn’t start the fire in Rome... In 64 AD, much of Rome burned down in a huge fire. It was rumoured that Nero had started the blaze, and later accounts claim he played the ...

Nero wasted no time. He arrested and tortured all the Christians in Rome, before executing them with lavish publicity. Some were crucified, some were thrown to wild animals and others were burned ...

Pune, Feb 28 (PTI) Taking swipes at Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday likened him to "Nero who played the fiddle while Rome burned".

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ... destruction (though scholars doubt he really played a fiddle while Rome burned), he was also an emperor of creation, overseeing the construction ...

Taking swipes at Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday likened him to "Nero who played the fiddle while Rome burned". Speaking at a ...