Nero Flashcards
How long was his reign?
54-68CE
What was the good things in his reign?
-He ended the more odious features of Claudius’s reign like the secret trials, and the corrupt Greeks.
-He made circus bloodshed, and capital punishment illegal
-he reduced taxes
-he allowed slaves to make complaints against their masters
When did everything go downhill?
When he sentenced his wife and mother to death- his mother was ‘insane’ and his wife because he had fell in love with another woman.
What bad things did he do?
-He was violent and cruel
-he fancied himself as a poet, a Charioteer, and a lyre player
-he was obsessed with Greek culture ang grew out a beard and walked around barefooted, which the Romans did not like.
-He persecuted Christians
How and when did he die?
June 9, 68CE he committed suicide after he fled from the city when he was declared a public enemy
