Nero used the Christians as the burning of garden lanterns Bashny.Net

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The infamous fifth emperor of Rome, who ruled from 54 th to 86 th year, n. e., was known as a cruel and despotic ruler of a sadist, who sent to the light a lot of relatives, including his own mother, Julia Agrippina the Younger, stepbrother - Britannica and people from his entourage.



One of the aspects of the activities of Nero is a ruthless persecution of the early Christians. Several sources (mentioned in the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio Cassius) reports that the tyrant strongly bullied exotic members of the sect at the time, calling for the rejection of polytheism and proclaiming the one Lord. Emperor sewed them in animal skins and hunted by dogs, crucified, and even poured accidents special fuel solution and ignited, thereby illuminating the gardens around his palace.

Some of these atrocities documented nothing confirmed, but almost all historians agree on one thing: Nero, anyway, was the world's first persecutor of Christianity as a religion: it is from his policies affected the Apostles Peter and Paul - the first was crucified upside down, and the second was beheaded.

Now scientists are arguing about controversial and vibrant role of Nero in the history of the Roman Empire, some say, for example, that the emperor wrongly attributed to "authorship" of the Great Fire of Rome.

However, other researchers have noted the extraordinary popularity among ordinary emperor, poorer residents of the Eternal City. Nero sought to root out corruption that flourished among civil servants, and even took the side of the liberated slaves, when the Senate raised the issue of whether to allow patrons again deprive freedmen freedom or not. In addition, it limited the number of taxes, which also had a positive impact on the living standards of the Romans.

via factroom.ru