Happy Anniversary, Magnum Incendium Romae!

5 Responses to Happy Anniversary, Magnum Incendium Romae!

1. tealady24 says:

   18 July 2011 at 5:54 PM

   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. . . .
2. Tom in NY says:

   18 July 2011 at 6:01 PM

   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.
   Salutationes omnibus .
3. chonak says:

   18 July 2011 at 6:46 PM

   And what tune did the Emperor play on the fiddle? I’m told it was “Nero, my god, to thee”.
4. irishgirl says:

   19 July 2011 at 10:24 AM

   ‘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’!
5. AvantiBev says:

   19 July 2011 at 10:55 AM

   As an ItaloAmerican Chi town gal, I am pretty sure there was a Celtic Cow really to blame for my ancestors’ conflagration.