In 37 AD, Nero was born in Antioch, a prosperous coastal city near Rome. He comes from a royal family, but he had a very miserable childhood. Nero's father was a cruel and dissolute dude who killed many innocent people and was notorious. Nero's mother, Agrippina Jr., was vicious and scheming.
When Nero was 3 years old, his father died of excessive sexual life. His uncle caligula not only failed to bear the responsibility of raising Nero, but also deprived Nero of his inheritance and exiled Nero with his mother. If not adopted by his aunt, Nero would almost become a royal family living on the streets.
Tragic experience can sharpen people's will, but it can also make people crazy, and Nero is the latter. Shameless parents and miserable circumstances have created such a freak. For him, nothing is indestructible.
Shortly after caligula's death, his uncle Claudius succeeded to the throne, which became a turning point for Nero's mother and son. Nero's mother married Emperor Claudius and miraculously made Emperor Claudius choose Nero as his successor. In 54 AD, Claudius died of poisoning, and Nero, who had no outstanding military exploits and abilities, became the new emperor. This scene is a lamentation of the Roman Senate, which was the most prominent institution in Rome in the past, but now it has become a vassal of the imperial power. This represents that Rome has completed the transition from monarchy to monarchy.
Nero became the ruler of the Roman Empire. /kloc-once the 0/7-year-old boy ascended the throne, he showed people his ferocity. Claudius had a biological son, and Nero was worried that he would become a threat, so he poured strong poison into his brother's wine. At the banquet, my brother was poisoned and couldn't afford to fall to the ground, but Nero ate his meal with relish and said it was just a seizure. This is the first person that Nero publicly killed, but it will never be the last.
Nero is different from all the emperors of the Roman Empire. He acted in different ways. He likes to wander in the street, listen to the bard's performance, and often fight during it, which is completely out of line with the identity of an emperor.
In 64 AD, a fire broke out at the entrance to Rome. Three of the city 14 administrative districts were completely destroyed and seven were partially destroyed. Only four boroughs survived. Thousands of people died in the fire, 500 thousand people were homeless, and the imperial government offices and high-rise buildings were reduced to ruins.
The young emperor performed unexpectedly in the fire. He opened the palace to let the victims live and led the soldiers and civilians to actively put out the fire. But most Romans thought it was an arson case, and Nero was the mastermind behind it. Because Nero always wanted to expand the palace, but the palace was surrounded by houses, Nero ignored the sufferings of civilians and ordered the siege machines to be destroyed one by one. But the resistance was too great, so Nero ordered the people to set fire to Rome, burn it to ruins and rebuild it.
No one knows the truth of this eternal mystery, but what is certain is that Nero rejected the suggestion of the Senate to move the capital and decided to rebuild the city of Rome. Seneca, Nero's teacher, had high hopes for Nero, saying, "When there is a crisis, the great emperor rules like a god.
The wise old man hopes that the students can shoulder the heavy responsibility of rejuvenating Rome and become great kings. However, Emperor Nero only heard the power like God, but he didn't understand the responsibility behind this power. Now, Nero decided to use his power. He wanted to be the god of Rome admired by the world.
Nero announced his plan to the Senate: he would rebuild a new Luocheng with wide roads, squares, gardens, theaters and temples, all of which would be born in the capital of art.
On the order of the emperor, Rome began the largest construction project in history. Tens of millions of tons of precious metals and marble were transported to Rome from Egypt, Greece and Spain to rebuild the capital. However, even the wealthy Roman Empire could not satisfy Nero's desire. He ordered countless huge works of art and asked to make a bronze statue of 120 feet for himself.
Seneca wanted his beloved student to get lost, but he responded with Nero's violence. He growled and angrily demanded that Rome meet all his demands. Now, Nero no longer trusts his teacher. He drove seneca away and listened to Tigrinus, the captain of the guard.
Tigrinus, the son of a Sicilian businessman, was loyal to Emperor Nero and knew how to blackmail the wealth of the empire. Tigrinus suggested to the emperor to rob the temple, which was the place where the Romans sacrificed to the gods and accumulated for one hundred years.
The temple is the pillar of imperial belief. For hundreds of years, no Roman ruler has touched this temple, not even Julius Caesar. However, Nero, who had mastered the power of the emperor, was no longer afraid of theocracy. He arrogantly declared that God needed his protection. At Nero's order, the guards ransacked the temple and continued to build a huge statue of Nero.
The looting of the temple made Nero furious and his prestige was wiped out. Even the civilian class who benefited in the early days of his rule could not stand what Nero did.
When the arena was rebuilt, Nero boarded the observation deck in his robe and greeted everyone with cheers and encouragement, but what he didn't know was that there was a plot to assassinate the king with thunderous applause. Seneca's nephew, poet Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, and other Senate elders plotted to get rid of the tyrant.
Seneca was a respected teacher of Emperor Nero. Although he was dismissed because of repeated persuasion, his right to speak is still great. Seneca's nephew Marcus Annaeus Lucanus is one of the leaders of the rebels. He found seneca and asked him to support the assassination of Nero. Seneca was very disappointed with Nero's atrocities, but he regarded Nero as his son. Even though he thought Nero was not a qualified monarch, he refused to kill Nero and his nephew's invitation.
The rebellious nobles talked all night about the plan to kill Nero, but what they didn't expect was that a slave heard their plot and told Nero. When Nero learned of this, he immediately arrested all the aristocratic elders who plotted against him and severely interrogated all the participants from their mouths.
Nero started a massacre. Whether it is true or not, anyone who is repented by the participants in the rebellion will be killed by Nero. By making the bloodiest massacre in the history of Roman Empire, Nero got rid of all his political opponents, among whom a large number of innocent people were implicated, and seneca was the most regrettable one. This old man, who regarded Nero as his son, assisted three generations of emperors of the Roman Empire, but was executed by Nero, his most valued student, because he was involved in a rebellion.
In order to seize wealth, Nero ordered the wealthy businessmen to make a will, leave part of the wealth to the emperor, and immediately commit suicide or kill the whole family if they didn't agree. For the sake of future generations, many wealthy aristocrats were forced to write wills and then committed suicide.
There is blood flowing in the land of Rome, and the voice against Nero is getting louder and louder.
In 67 AD, every elder received a letter calling on them to rebel, and these letters were written by the governor of Gaul and the governor of Spain appointed by the Roman Empire. This time, rebellion is different from conspiracy. They have an army of 100 thousand, and the momentum is huge. More importantly, the rebellion was initiated by Roman nobles, who wanted to get rid of Nero, not the Roman Empire.
Only then did Nero finally realize the seriousness of the problem He returned to Rome, hungry and complaining all the way. Nero returned to the magnificent city of Rome, surrounded by people. The rebuilt capital is magnificent and magnificent, but at the cost of sucking the blood of the Roman Empire, countless people are hungry and starve to death on the road. When the rebels attacked, at this moment, Tigrinus, the commander of the guards who had been loyal to the emperor, was desperate. He knew Nero was hopeless. The tyrant's accomplice decided to betray the emperor, and his betrayal also led to Nero's final death.
Without guards, the Senate has no scruples. They declared Nero a public enemy of the Roman Empire, which meant that all Romans had a responsibility: to kill or help kill the emperor Nero.
Nero, desperate, took his own life.
Nero, the bloodthirsty tyrant, fell, and his decadent and ruthless rule ended the Jorio-Claudia dynasty. All the Romans realized that the emperor of the empire was not elected by blood, but by virtue, and the era of a wise emperor came. I'm afraid this is the only legacy Nero left in Rome.