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[–] PugJesus 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He was not a 'super-super popular emperor'. He considered throwing himself at the mercy of the Roman people, but in the end rejected this possible way out - not because the people could not deliver him from his fall, but because the people would not do so. He knew he would be torn to pieces by the crowd. Nero remained popular only in Greece, where his profligacy and liberality with imperial privileges earned him allies amongst the so-bribed Hellenic cities. The military was openly hostile to him, the rest of the eastern provinces indifferent, and the western provinces in uproar.

Nero was a paranoiac, a tyrant, a spoiled narcissist, and a moron. And to chalk all that up to 'He prosecuted Christians in his reign' when hostility to Nero long predates the ascendency of Christianity in the records is foolishness.

The Great Fire of Rome doesn't even factor in to any of this. He was a terrible Emperor without needing to enter into those unlikely rumors.

[–] theUwUhugger 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] PugJesus 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] theUwUhugger 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wowsies, your source is from 1914?!??

Your source only levels criticism against him on a personal level? Some of which originates from the homophobia and sexism of the age of the doc, considering that voyerism and homosexuality used to be commonplace in rome!

Besides abusing freeborn boys and sedu­cing married women…

Some of which is kind of even funny

He so prostituted his own chastity that after defiling almost every part of his body, he at last devised a kind of sick game, in which, covered with the skin of some wild animal, he was let loose from a cage and attacked the private parts of men and women…

But for the sake of the argument, conceding all that; what effect would him being a dickbag in his personal life have on his emperorship?

It also has clearly untrue statements! Claudius was killed by Agrippa!!!

He began his career of parricide and murder with Claudius…

It also seems to often cite itself as its own source multiple times?

[–] PugJesus 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wowsies, your source is from 1914?!??

It's Suetonius. It's from 121 AD.

[–] theUwUhugger 2 points 1 month ago