Today is the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Fire of Rome in A.D. 64.
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Ah yes. . . those were the days. Nero playing his lyre while Rome burned. And now we have the liar in the White House telling us there’s no problem with a $14 TRILLION debt ceiling; Americans LOVE new taxes, we want more!!
I mean, ya’ know. . . .
Get your copy of Annales imperii Romae.. Decide for for yourself whether Tacitus wrote sine ira et studio. It was a hard lesson in “urban renewal.” [LOL]
Romans rejoiced when the property was recycled as the Flavian.
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And what tune did the Emperor play on the fiddle? I’m told it was “Nero, my god, to thee”.
‘Nero, my god, to thee’-oh, that’s bad, chonak! : ) Then again, wish I could have thought of it!
When I think of the Great Fire of Rome, I always remember the book and the film, ‘Quo Vadis’!
As an ItaloAmerican Chi town gal, I am pretty sure there was a Celtic Cow really to blame for my ancestors’ conflagration.