Happy Anniversary, Magnum Incendium Romae!

Posted on 18 July 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Today is the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Fire of Rome in A.D. 64.

I’m just sayin’…

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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.