Nero: Rome’s Antichrist

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  • @Biographics
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      @NefatiousK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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  • @GoodNight0wl
    @GoodNight0wl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6642

    Rome's history makes Game of Thrones look like a children's Saturday cartoon.

    • @GoodNight0wl
      @GoodNight0wl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @Matthew Andrews You're referring to the black dinner, right?

    • @jsoo67
      @jsoo67 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

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    • @unstableATL
      @unstableATL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +150

      Matthew Andrews is correct. Some houses are fictional but the Starks are loosely based on the York’s and the Lannister’s based on the Lancaster’s. Even the maps of England and Westeros are similar. Hadrian’s Wall = The Wall. Both kept the wild free folk out of the south.
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    • @Payable_Upon_Death
      @Payable_Upon_Death 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

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    • @chadsknnr
      @chadsknnr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      U Betta believe it!

  • @AmethystSnow
    @AmethystSnow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2668

    That poor kid Sporus. Imagine walking down a street one day and getting kidnapped, castrated, and forced by a psycho to play his dead wife.

    • @patrickbateman9850
      @patrickbateman9850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +174

      Classic

    • @dahnmason3243
      @dahnmason3243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +152

      I can only fantasize every night as I try to fall asleep hoping it becomes a literal dream🥺😞🙏

    • @justiceadams6623
      @justiceadams6623 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Run agree

    • @hannahm9893
      @hannahm9893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      @@dahnmason3243 breh

    • @oussamat612
      @oussamat612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      why is your name Anatolia

  • @artypyrec4186
    @artypyrec4186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    Nero *brutally murder someone and set them on fire in front of a crowd*
    Also Nero: that's a weird suicide

  • @tuckemon
    @tuckemon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +703

    Imagine being so cruel and twisted with your tortures and executions that even the blood thirsty Romans thought it was too much. That's saying something when you really think about it 😲

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Using innocent people as human garden torches and feeding them to beasts for entertainment...yeah I think Hitler, Stalin and Mao have at least a rival for "most evil man in history".

    • @tuckemon
      @tuckemon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@thunderbird1921 oh for sure but those guys came after Nero. Depravity and evil evolves with society unfortunately.

    • @GarretRB
      @GarretRB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@tuckemon I feel like Nero style brutality is almost more demented because it’s achieving no goal. It’s not worse by scale at all but it was just aimless human suffering for the pleasure of evil people.

    • @starman3778
      @starman3778 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Uhhh no the emperor's and the elite were cruel, that doesn't mean every roman was automatically cruel lol. Maybe to foreigners but there'd be no reason to act so cruel against your own people for so little

    • @owenjames8575
      @owenjames8575 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@thunderbird1921 yeah, they aren't even close. Those three did their actions for a reason, to improve their peoples and countries. Nero was just a sadist. Why is this such a difficult concept for people to grasp

  • @saltymisfit6566
    @saltymisfit6566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +899

    "What's that? Yes, she stabbed herself......23 times. It really is sad."

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Hahha, remind me of this gem: th-cam.com/video/uFLMCu1RSNw/w-d-xo.html
      "he was runnin' to get a bus and it fell into his arm ya know"

    • @anonymousontheinternet4486
      @anonymousontheinternet4486 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@Biographics Hey, can you do a video on Bass Reeves next. He was a black cowboy and law man who caught over 3000 criminals through out his service. Some of the stories of his ordeals are like stuff from classic western movies. In fact there is popular belief that the Lone ranger is based on his adventures. It would be a really entertaining video.

    • @korvasterindar9672
      @korvasterindar9672 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      "Yes, She did fall repeatedly onto the guards swords...it was an accident...i swear."

    • @anonymousontheinternet4486
      @anonymousontheinternet4486 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@korvasterindar9672 I can confirm, I was the sword.

    • @realkekz
      @realkekz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Just like Epstein committing suicide by two gunshots to the back of the head

  • @thebrocialist8300
    @thebrocialist8300 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4076

    *BioGraphics:*
    “Emperor Nero was actually beloved for a time by his people [and] he never actually fiddled as Rome burnt.”
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    *BioGraphics:*
    “He instead fiddled a boy he had abducted and castrated because he resembled the wife he had previously kicked to death.”
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  • @blacklite911
    @blacklite911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Honestly, Agrippina the younger’s story is more intriguing. The Mad autocrat is a tale as old as time but how a girl who was married off to a sleazy old man at 13 and excommunicated then climbed her way to the top is a story about someone with tremendous will, keen strategy and aptitude for treachery. I’d like to see that story told

    • @johnsaunders2109
      @johnsaunders2109 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      She wasn't married at 13! She was the neice of Claudius and married him for political reasons when Nero was around 10! It was totally incestuous, but freely entered into by a scheming mature woman! And how was she excommunicated? Rome did not become Christian for another 300 years !!!

    • @blacklite911
      @blacklite911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@johnsaunders2109 metaphorically excommunicated, like exiled, persona non grata

    • @johnsaunders2109
      @johnsaunders2109 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@blacklite911 but she was exiled by her brother, Caligula, for being part of a rebellion! She was nothing like you describe her!

    • @Doomzdeh
      @Doomzdeh 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I wouldn’t really say it was all that impressive. She was exiled by her brother for years and was only welcomed back to Rome because she was Emperor Claudius’s only relative left besides Nero. If the Praetorian Guard hadn’t killed Caligula and his daughter, Agrippina would have never returned to Rome.
      Upon her return, she then seduced Emperor Claudius, a man who was commonly seen as weak and unmanly due to his stutter and limp. His own wife had cheated on him for years and Claudius wasn’t known to be desired by any. I doubt it was all that hard to seduce such an insecure and undesirable guy, especially when you’re his only close connection left to a family that he always craved respect from.
      At the end of the day, just like Claudius, Agrippina was someone who got lucky enough to get exactly the right conditions for success.

  • @pyromania1018
    @pyromania1018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +290

    Actually, a lot of people were pleased when Nero killed his mother, as they considered her a bad influence on him. She was widely hated for marrying Claudius, and rumors abounded that she even slept with Nero in order to control him.

    • @holben27
      @holben27 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Yeah she was a manipulator, and I wouldn't be surprised if her abuse of Nero is what fueled his cruel perversions. Like Ed Gein

    • @MaleviahBurned
      @MaleviahBurned ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You know how people felt back then? Damn. That's crazy....

    • @whittar
      @whittar ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@MaleviahBurned It's called being able to read

    • @MrMarinus18
      @MrMarinus18 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That is very true but the taboo was still there. So people were actually kind of hating them both.

    • @deborahrobinson9718
      @deborahrobinson9718 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol well he turned out much worse than she could’ve ever been

  • @pacoramon9468
    @pacoramon9468 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3645

    The real Game of Thrones, with less dragons but with a decent ending.

    • @lzi9452
      @lzi9452 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      paco ramon sounds better

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      To be fair, Rome with dragons sounds pretty cool.
      Pity Naomi Novik didn't do more than just a short story with it.

    • @Enigmatic_Lurker
      @Enigmatic_Lurker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Et tu Paco?

    • @stevenbaker7025
      @stevenbaker7025 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      You mean the tv show that wrote its own ending?

    • @nore5992
      @nore5992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You mean a Magnificent Scotlands ice king Chad getting stabbed by Some weird ass little girl using a knife with his fellow cripple brother?. Yeah such a tragics ending for our Chad Icy king

  • @rulisa1131
    @rulisa1131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +807

    Nero, burning Rome since 64 and burning DVDs since 1997.

    • @annescholey6546
      @annescholey6546 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Worse than Batman n Robin😠

    • @dibassarkar2898
      @dibassarkar2898 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@annescholey6546 He was talking about the Nero software

    • @IshanGogoi
      @IshanGogoi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you had to XD

    • @TheFakeyCakeMaker
      @TheFakeyCakeMaker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Now he just makes coffee...

    • @Ajpattan
      @Ajpattan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Underrated comment

  • @aidanchiang8115
    @aidanchiang8115 3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    Nero in the past: I kill without thought
    Nero now: UmU

    • @taco2215
      @taco2215 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You just earned some time in Salt gacha jail

    • @I_love_M4A1
      @I_love_M4A1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      HASHIRE SORIYO KAZE NO YOU NI TSUGIMI HARA WO
      AZPADORU !!

    • @thecatdragon589
      @thecatdragon589 ปีที่แล้ว

      nero now: deadweight

  • @svg_ch
    @svg_ch 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1030

    So... you are telling me that Nero wasn't a cute blonde anime girl?

    • @arapimamilkbottle3076
      @arapimamilkbottle3076 4 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      Does he say umu though

    • @edeensalihovic5588
      @edeensalihovic5588 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      No, that's Naruto.

    • @buzzcity8382
      @buzzcity8382 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      What's up with the stupid anime girl. she is a freak compare to Nero.

    • @danialyousaf6456
      @danialyousaf6456 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      And neither was he the son of a half demon half human ? With white hair and a (previously) demonic right arm ?

    • @ladykoiwolfe
      @ladykoiwolfe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I'm beginning to think Nero wished he was.

  • @trisarathops
    @trisarathops 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1406

    “Emotionally unstable 16 year old...“ show me a 16 year old that isn’t emotionally unstable; the difference being they don’t get to rule an empire with everything that comes with it

    • @andyv16012
      @andyv16012 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      I'm a Police Officer, at times I've pulled people over and told them to stop driving like a pissed off teenager.

    • @luckyspurs
      @luckyspurs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Also, show me a Roman Emperor of any age without the emotional instability of a 16 year old.

    • @SH19922x
      @SH19922x 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@luckyspurs Marcus Crassus and Julius Ceaser (the real bedrock of the start of Roman Empire from a republic) had the sharpest wits out of any men in all of human history. They were not mad nor were they deviated, they were completely ruthless in control of every aspect and were the two greatest minds of Roman dominance. Also were among the top 5 genuine battle warriors that Rome had, they were both near on the same level of Spartacas and Alexander the great, myth of Achilles in skill.

    • @johnfrancisdoe1563
      @johnfrancisdoe1563 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Trisarathops This has been repeated before and since.

    • @heavyhanded1782
      @heavyhanded1782 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnfrancisdoe1563 so has this...

  • @MissBlueEyeliner
    @MissBlueEyeliner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +619

    Go to sleep or watch a 25 minute video on Nero?
    It’s not even a question.

    • @historiculgeomocule5569
      @historiculgeomocule5569 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hahahaha!

    • @kjn-s2336
      @kjn-s2336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah... I really think sleep might be nice :)

    • @Skelstoolbox
      @Skelstoolbox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@kjn-s2336 With her you mean, or alone?

    • @rhodesianwojak2095
      @rhodesianwojak2095 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol

    • @Skelstoolbox
      @Skelstoolbox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rhodesianwojak2095 "I'm talking penis and vagina!!" --- Not Another Teen Movie...

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    1:35 - Chapter 1 - Family ties
    5:30 - Chapter 2 - Where the monster was nurtured
    9:15 - Chapter 3 - The artistic emperor
    12:15 - Mid roll ads
    13:30 - Chapter 4 - Let the mother burn
    17:10 - Chapter 5 - The horrors of love
    20:30 - Chapter 6 - "What an artist dies in me"

  • @SinaAla
    @SinaAla 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    By the first ten minutes I was already overwhelmed by the murders, twists and turns. And Nero was only a teenager 😭

  • @vinny5638
    @vinny5638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +521

    That 'queen of England dancing naked in an amsterdam brothel' comparison is EXACTLY why I'm subscribed to this channel lol.

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      :)

    • @owenlindkvist5355
      @owenlindkvist5355 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Except that the line was stolen, and slightly reworked from a BBC historical documentary concern the life of Nero.

    • @anapm2927
      @anapm2927 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I too appreciate the mental image!

    • @S.A.O.D.A
      @S.A.O.D.A 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You have some weird fetishes bro

    • @anapm2927
      @anapm2927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@S.A.O.D.A Don't we all?

  • @thomasrush2095
    @thomasrush2095 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1910

    Nero never fiddled while Rome burned, because the fiddle was not invented until 1500 AD.

    • @fhantasm
      @fhantasm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +162

      Ancient Rome has CNN too I guess

    • @lordmouse9985
      @lordmouse9985 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      The fiddle as we know it was yes, but the original form of the fiddle was created in the 11th century.

    • @I_am_a_cat_
      @I_am_a_cat_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      @@fhantasm fiddled sounds better than "lyred"

    • @Packless1
      @Packless1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      In fact he wasn't even there, he had an alibi.
      He was 60km away and when he learned about the fire, he rushed back home to organize the fire-fighters and the relief-efforts...!

    • @zappawench6048
      @zappawench6048 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Are you calling Simon a lyre?

  • @96unicorns
    @96unicorns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +933

    Nero: Kicks prego wife to death, castrates a boy that looks like her and sexually abuses him for years
    Biographics: See, Nero isn't that bad :D

    • @lalehiandeity1649
      @lalehiandeity1649 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Not as bad as Tiberius and Caligula.

    • @sevensiete4550
      @sevensiete4550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I was thinking the same, 🤦‍♂️

    • @sto1238
      @sto1238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      He was a just a misunderstood young man!

    • @johnsaunders2109
      @johnsaunders2109 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      It's all relative! Nero was not as bad as his lunatic uncle, Caligula. And compared to a lunatic future emperor. Egalobarbus, who reigned I the 220s AD, he was almost a social democrat!

    • @erichfuentebella6298
      @erichfuentebella6298 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I have a theory that nero was suffering from like a severe mental illness and that he did love his wife but again severe mental illness so he did bad stuff idk like do you know those serial killers in stories who kills their s/o? yeah but ofc even if it is true his actions will never be justified and never should be too. I think he does a really good complex antagonist fictional character but unfortunately he was real lol

  • @dragon.phoenix
    @dragon.phoenix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    "Thank Jupiter" had me smashing the like button 😂😂😂

    • @balaportejean7015
      @balaportejean7015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      😂😂.
      Jesus is the Son of God. Hope u believe in his death and resurrection and repent from sin. Luv ya♥️

    • @Konoronn
      @Konoronn ปีที่แล้ว

      @@balaportejean7015 :[

  • @juliuscaesar8185
    @juliuscaesar8185 4 ปีที่แล้ว +910

    Finally, some biographies about Ancient Rome!

    • @ilarious5729
      @ilarious5729 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      I can't guite get my finger around it but I have a feeling you have a thing for ancient Rome.. 🤔

    • @kirisategoman3228
      @kirisategoman3228 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Julius Caesar 81 hi Caesar how are you

    • @NSFWill
      @NSFWill 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Hows the back feeling Julius?

    • @YazzPott
      @YazzPott 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Awe, true to Caesar.

    • @monstersamator5288
      @monstersamator5288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Hey julius who was on you're life insurance beneficiary

  • @JesamyPorter
    @JesamyPorter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1273

    Soooo that’s why early 2000s CD burning software was called Nero. Mind blown.

  • @cagrant4472
    @cagrant4472 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    NO. Rome's craziest emperor (of the Claudians anyway) was indisputably Caligula. I think Simon has it absolutely right. Nero is what you get when you raise --- or rather, let your son grow up --- the way Agrippina Junior used her son as of puppet to achieve power for herself. Is anyone surprised that he had her murdered? I'm not.

  • @bwestbrook90
    @bwestbrook90 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    “He was an emotionally unstable 16-year-old boy.” Otherwise known as a 16-year-old boy

    • @NotMyWar
      @NotMyWar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Emotionally unstable is a weird way to say homicidal maniac.

  • @glutiousmaximus12
    @glutiousmaximus12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1320

    Game of Thrones is so brutal.
    Ancient Rome: Hold my beer

    • @AO00720
      @AO00720 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      You mean hold my Olive branch

    • @HyperionaSilverleaf
      @HyperionaSilverleaf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Wine

    • @jakealter5504
      @jakealter5504 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ChristIan Rome was only more brutal during the later part of the claudian dynasty (under Tiberius, Caligula, and the later part of Nero’s reign), during the year of the four emperors, and during the decline of the Western Roman Empire. Ancient Rome was actually better than Westeros the rest of the time

    • @nguyenhoanglong420
      @nguyenhoanglong420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jakealter5504 Rome empire >:))

    • @mekaokelly8377
      @mekaokelly8377 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol

  • @cromagn1n
    @cromagn1n 4 ปีที่แล้ว +372

    “This long ass video” earned you an instant thumbs up

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      :D

    • @Zarafin
      @Zarafin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Biographics :)

    • @turtleanton6539
      @turtleanton6539 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is kinda short for this channel

  • @m__zombi
    @m__zombi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Your ancient history videos are absolutely fantastic. I’m so glad I found this channel.

  • @colinsmith929
    @colinsmith929 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    One of the things I find very strange is how the Julio Claudian and other early pagan rulers of Rome were just cartoonishly evil and hedonistic. I mean by the time you get to the later emperors they seem to have lost much of hedonism and instead are busy stabbing each other in the back and civil warring back and forth. I mean Honorius (one of the few emperors to not be a General and survive to die of old age) the most hedonistic thing I know of him is that when his sister left for Constantinople suddenly it was rumored to be because he had made a pass at her. Which is definitely creepy but even if true is a far cry from Tiberius's little minnows for example.

    • @chick_nuggs9318
      @chick_nuggs9318 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's almost like humans are radically depraved. Who would have guessed?

  • @jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104
    @jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104 4 ปีที่แล้ว +569

    "The queen of England dancing naked for money in an Amsterdam brothel." That has to be one of the funniest things I've heard a You Tuber say. He's comparing Nero being an artist to that level of outrage.

    • @jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104
      @jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @Bobby KnucklesHitler didn't start the Nazi party. He took it over. But I see your point. Maybe sometimes dictators can be frustrated artists.

    • @megastoejoe
      @megastoejoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      So many wrinkles...

    • @johnsaunders2109
      @johnsaunders2109 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Would you pay to have it with a 95 year old midget in a funny hat ?!?

    • @mikshinee87
      @mikshinee87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@johnsaunders2109 Well, yes.

    • @daniyalshah4338
      @daniyalshah4338 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@johnsaunders2109 are you actually mocking the Queen of great britain scotland and northern island and head of the common wealth where her ancestor ruled the largest empire the world had ever seen ruling over 412 million people?!! And the most powerful empire the world had ever seen

  • @JJ3E
    @JJ3E 4 ปีที่แล้ว +715

    Still waiting for Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Philosopher King.

    • @isaacschmitt4803
      @isaacschmitt4803 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I honestly think I would rather them just cover his meditations, Cliff's Notes style. Or even better, have Simon just read it out loud.

    • @jmchez
      @jmchez 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      For Trajan and Hadrian also. So good that they were labeled as "good pagans" by the early Christians.

    • @mattm7798
      @mattm7798 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Strength and Honor

    • @tarionmarsden157
      @tarionmarsden157 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes i need to know about the philosopher king

    • @jmchez
      @jmchez 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mattm7798 Quod in Vita Fascimus in Aeternum Resonat.

  • @RankinMsP
    @RankinMsP 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Simon: "Neto was deranged but..."
    Me: But? There's a but? What could justify such madness?
    Simon: "Trouble teenager"
    Me: Eff that!

  • @im2arrogant118
    @im2arrogant118 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Fun fact Joffrey is actually inspired by Nero.

  • @KennyRider137
    @KennyRider137 4 ปีที่แล้ว +516

    "I didn't set Rome on fire and to prove it I will set these Christians on fire IN Rome!"

    • @arealgem9404
      @arealgem9404 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Bobby Knuckles the first Christians were.........
      JEWS LOL !

    • @nore5992
      @nore5992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @Bobby Knuckles Really?. Even in Ancient Rome they called Jesus as "A Jews who dead in the Cross" same for the Jews who call him a Usurper but instead he can make a religion out of it. Your thoughs is just a prespective nowdays Society depicted it from

    • @W45P.
      @W45P. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Probably cos they started the fire.

    • @danielhogan6255
      @danielhogan6255 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      NoRe christianity can be considered a sect of judean faith back in those days...greece is the main reason why christianity is considered a different religion...heck christians the way the world see them nowadays would of been sojourners, strangers, servants and refugees in ancient jewish societys....also as a heads up...the difference between hebrews and jewish peoples comes from a political struggle that happened during the time hebrews were conquering the land of the caaninites....jewish people come from the tribe of judah, one of 12 hebrew tribes, which split off and claimed a city that would become jerusalem while the other 11 founded isreal.

    • @hesedagape6122
      @hesedagape6122 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It was only after 350 AD that Christianity became a totally separate religion from Rabbinic Judaism.

  • @jessiestoss4567
    @jessiestoss4567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +970

    His mother faced her execution like a true badass.

    • @zeynaviegas5043
      @zeynaviegas5043 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Nero: too late

    • @OmarMohamed-ze7jy
      @OmarMohamed-ze7jy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +155

      she was prolly prepared to get assassinated after assassinating so many people herself, irony is sweet

    • @StrangeTamer178
      @StrangeTamer178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      By telling her killers to stab her in the puss?

    • @Burnt_Nipple
      @Burnt_Nipple 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@StrangeTamer178the womb is the belly not the puss dimwit

    • @StrangeTamer178
      @StrangeTamer178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Burnt_Nipple I was just making a joke dbag. And token's life matters

  • @emily-grace6246
    @emily-grace6246 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I wrote my final essay on Nero in a history class in college, all had to be from memory, and I’m proud of how much I remember correctly 8 years later 🤩 still, of course, learned much new information as well! Thanks for your and your team’s work, Simon!

  • @ibelieveinyourgalaxy
    @ibelieveinyourgalaxy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority.”
    Becoming emperor was the worst thing that could have happened for him and his victims.

  • @oslonorway547
    @oslonorway547 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1623

    I don't know who does the writing, but I've noticed, no matter what our previous notion of the entity whose biography is being discussed, you guys have a way of writing it and Simon has his way of narrating it, that at the end, you got us thinking: _"Hey, the dude wasn't so bad after all. I mean, ge may have murdered 20 million innocent civilians, but he could have been any one of us."_
    ... You bastards! I want you guys to prepare my eulogy when I die :)

    • @vinny5638
      @vinny5638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      @Ron H That's what I like about this channel. Instead of leading you on with opinion-based descriptors, the facts of the matter are laid out in an entirely unbiased manner for us to mull over inernally. Its actual content instead of hand-holding.

    • @Bam_Bizzler
      @Bam_Bizzler 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      @@vinny5638 im honestly surprised how honest and informative the videos are with how frequent they come out

    • @stevehardy7241
      @stevehardy7241 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This world is more twiztid than I thought

    • @vinny5638
      @vinny5638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @GuildBankLooter I genuinely havent noticed such, and Im a staunch centrist. Has he made some error that indicates leftist bias?

    • @isaacschmitt4803
      @isaacschmitt4803 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      I mean, it's kinda like that old Reddit (?) post with the still from one of Hitler's home videos made by Eva Braun where he's smiling and flirting with her, saying that he should be filming her.
      It shows he was just as human as the rest of us, and that alone is more genuinely terrifying than anything made by horror writers of the day. Because as much as we want to tell ourselves that only the truly evil monsters would do the things he did, under the right circumstances, any of us could do great acts of evil.

  • @royalcorvid
    @royalcorvid 4 ปีที่แล้ว +319

    _Nero: Rome's Neckbeard Emperor_

    • @alexk7880
      @alexk7880 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      odd title.

    • @bostevens8516
      @bostevens8516 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Jeffrey Scott He has to make sure the m’ ladies didn’t ignore “nice guys” like him. I’m sure he couldn’t help that he was “big boned”.

    • @darthtater545
      @darthtater545 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A supreme gentleman until the end.
      RIP in pepperoni

    • @matthewbennett1972
      @matthewbennett1972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I wonder if trump plays the fiddle

    • @Kelly-dm8mj
      @Kelly-dm8mj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nero: The anti-Chad

  • @mixlennoxx6144
    @mixlennoxx6144 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great piece! Thank you. We're gonna binge on more.

  • @instantramen4588
    @instantramen4588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Nero's favourite word was "UMU"

  • @rionthemagnificent2971
    @rionthemagnificent2971 4 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    Roman senate: We need you to be serious Emperor, The empire is in trouble.
    Nero: *censored* you I'm having too much fun and you're interrupting my art!

    • @RealSkoolmaster
      @RealSkoolmaster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Nero: The first millenial

    • @coquito_godess4627
      @coquito_godess4627 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      read the beginning "censor you" reminded me of mushu from mulan saying dishonor on you xD random but ur comment made my day

  • @willkayl8793
    @willkayl8793 4 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    This video was exceptional. Ancient Rome was fascinatingly bonkers. You did an amazing job squeezing the whole of Nero’s life into 25 minutes. Keep up these great videos. Cheers.

  • @pooryorick831
    @pooryorick831 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for these video lectures. I find them to be engaging and informative. Well done.

  • @tyleralbrecht6015
    @tyleralbrecht6015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Bro, Rome why you stabbing all your rulers and getting away with. I’d be scared to be in any position of power in fear of being stabbed

    • @nick_g1126
      @nick_g1126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      As you should be, honestly.

    • @gandalf_thegrey
      @gandalf_thegrey 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Do you want to become consul? "
      "Hell nah, I don't want to get stabbed!"
      "To bad. That was not a choice."
      *stabs you*

  • @justherald1117
    @justherald1117 4 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    "What an artist dies with me". Wow, goosebumps. Even fiction doesn't get much better than this.

  • @mtatarko1
    @mtatarko1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +276

    8:49 Nero "pulling an Epstein" before it was cool.

    • @Gamebred-Nightmare
      @Gamebred-Nightmare 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Jay Camacho Shut up

    • @ninjaked1265
      @ninjaked1265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Except Epstein didn’t kill himself

    • @mtatarko1
      @mtatarko1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@ninjaked1265 I was referring to 8:49, when Nero claimed Agrippina had committed suicide.

    • @Hwje1111
      @Hwje1111 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wrong timestamp. Should’ve been when he tried to turn some boy who looked like his former wife into a woman.

  • @nikolasbrown105
    @nikolasbrown105 ปีที่แล้ว

    You are an excellent historian and entertaining all around. I have enjoyed this thoroughly, not what went down but the way you have opened my eyes. Thank you truly. Truly amazing.

  • @lolazal1
    @lolazal1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was fantastic. Thanks Simon.

  • @Hoi4o
    @Hoi4o 4 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    Seneca was actually Nero's educator as a child and his advisor along with Burrus during his initial years of reign. The older Nero got, the less advice he took from them. That's why his rulership got worse and worse over time, especially after Burrus died and the old Seneca was left all alone with the cruel mind of a mad ruler.

    • @437765513
      @437765513 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's literally like Mike Tyson and Cus D'Amato

  • @Paslayas
    @Paslayas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    Sporus should have had the privilege of killing Nero.

  • @jerricosagala2904
    @jerricosagala2904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Being an emperor is like singing a death warrant. Your premature demise becomes certain

  • @brianbannon6746
    @brianbannon6746 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    An utterly superb delivery.

  • @TheJohny727
    @TheJohny727 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Agrippina had a great teacher, her tactics and way to power echoes Livia, Augsutus' wife. Being under her protection for most of her life until Livia's death, it's incredible to see how Agrippina managed to control the Roman political stage and bend it to her will, even succumbing later to death just like Livia, taking control from her son and eventually dying becasue of it.

  • @chrisclifton7276
    @chrisclifton7276 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    "Thank jupiter" smooth... I like it.

  • @hypnotoad311
    @hypnotoad311 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I feel like aliens keep trying to reveal themselves to us but every time they show up they see ish like Nero and they’re like, “You know, they really don’t seem to be doing well. Maybe we’ll come back in 5,000 years.”

  • @robbwatson2088
    @robbwatson2088 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As a new subsciber, I have to say, I am really enjoying your shows.
    Cheers

  • @joshuahunt3032
    @joshuahunt3032 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Geez, it seems like Tiberius caused quite the echo in time by killing Caligula’s dad.

  • @luckyspurs
    @luckyspurs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    "Did you know, some Roman Emperors killed their child relatives"
    "Yeah, well Nero kicked his pregnant wife in the womb"
    "Blimey"

    • @MissCaraMint
      @MissCaraMint 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The historian Tacitus (who hated Nero btw so no reason he would write good things about him), thought this was absolutely ridiculous and a baseless accusation, and there seem to have been rumours that Poppaea was poisoned.

    • @zakiahmed6655
      @zakiahmed6655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      holy moly

    • @freestyla85
      @freestyla85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @שָׁחוֹר יֵשׁוּעַ alot of nero's history we have today was written 50-150 years after his death by the senatorial class who opposed him. And the different authors contradict themselves on many events. So take these wild perverse stories with a grain of salt and as attempts to stain his legacy. You have to remember he reigned for 14 years which is a very long time for an emperor who is considered one of the worst ever. Most bad emperors in Rome's history did not last this long in power

    • @zakiahmed6655
      @zakiahmed6655 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @שָׁחוֹר יֵשׁוּעַ but he might have not been as bad as they described

    • @zakiahmed6655
      @zakiahmed6655 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @שָׁחוֹר יֵשׁוּעַ yeah it's tough times out here

  • @pr0ject_nihilist
    @pr0ject_nihilist 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was a super smooth transition to your plug.

  • @vocaz5328
    @vocaz5328 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks, Really helped with an assignment

  • @willembester3912
    @willembester3912 4 ปีที่แล้ว +237

    Imagine being Nero's shrink. "Allright,lad,let's talk about your mother today,shall we?"

    • @ojutay8375
      @ojutay8375 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      You are immediately crucified

    • @jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104
      @jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Or perhaps a session of art therapy instead.

    • @Puvwilmo00
      @Puvwilmo00 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Damn, now I wanna see Nero in a therapy session where Sigmund Freud is his shrink.

    • @TheButtshd
      @TheButtshd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Puvwilmo00 that would be a good episode on interdimensional cable

    • @Tempusverum
      @Tempusverum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      “Now, tell me about Mother.”
      “I’M NORMA BATES!”
      🤪 🔪

  • @redjirachi1
    @redjirachi1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +347

    Nero throughout history
    69-2010 CE: Evil tyrant
    2010 CE-present: Waifu

    • @unbearable1583
      @unbearable1583 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Kaze no yo ni

    • @emperorcokelord1021
      @emperorcokelord1021 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      That's how he will be remembered. From a man playing a harp while watching Rome burn to a Saber clone

    • @raspberry_wiskey6999
      @raspberry_wiskey6999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You made a mistake, throughout all history he is viewed as a waifu

    • @strider4life696
      @strider4life696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      2008 CE-present: A smart-mouthed devil hunter with a mechanical right arm and Devil Trigger mode

    • @invincibleunderthesun8545
      @invincibleunderthesun8545 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Musashi Miyamoto
      Feudal Japan: Manly Swordsman
      Now: Waifu

  • @citizendan6390
    @citizendan6390 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    funniest intro to a history video. great channel!

  • @melanietoth1376
    @melanietoth1376 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    In depth and well done!

  • @metaltree9829
    @metaltree9829 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    "You see how long this video is, yes you get to enjoy this long ass video." Best opening ever.

  • @mariakelly5
    @mariakelly5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +357

    You really need to do one on the female Egyptian Pharaoh Hapshepsut.

  • @jimhesch1404
    @jimhesch1404 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a fantastic production. World class. Thank you..

  • @Miamcoline
    @Miamcoline 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Superb video! Great nuance!

  • @URProductions
    @URProductions 4 ปีที่แล้ว +205

    I read that in ancient Latin they pronounced their v's as "w".
    For instance, "Veni vidi vici" was actually pronounced "weeny widi weeky".
    Of course, what his means is that Vindex may actually have been pronounced as...
    ... "windex".

    • @trojanmane148
      @trojanmane148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol

    • @TheSouthwestBoyz
      @TheSouthwestBoyz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      EmperorJuliusCaesar my liege!

    • @mankomamada2545
      @mankomamada2545 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      *weendex, but funny nonetheless.

    • @scumbagjesus999
      @scumbagjesus999 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rikiki

    • @RikoJAmado
      @RikoJAmado 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      EmperorJuliusCaesar Yes. In fact, the term “ Kaiser” comes from Caesar with a k: Keasar. Now I kind of want some Little Kaiser’s Pizza.

  • @rosscherry6055
    @rosscherry6055 4 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    Please do Marshall Applewhite! He was the leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult who killed themselves to go live on a spaceship trailing a passing comet.

    • @dulezninjaman4788
      @dulezninjaman4788 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ross Cherry Joseph seed wants to know your location....

    • @youngpablo9007
      @youngpablo9007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He's my boy

    • @youngpablo9007
      @youngpablo9007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ross Cherry OH btw type in Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Documentary. It has tonnes of interviews and a fantastic telling of both the lives of Marshall and the female leader (can't remember her name)
      Really recommend it. Pretty non biased reporting (as this channel normally is)

    • @airplaneoverthesemen
      @airplaneoverthesemen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He was also the most infamous Nike testimonial

    • @Makarosc
      @Makarosc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Too obscure

  • @kassykreutzer6972
    @kassykreutzer6972 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love your videos thank you for your hard work to teach us history

  • @dylanbrooke8911
    @dylanbrooke8911 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video! Also that ads are done in a very tasteful way, bravo!

  • @--Paws--
    @--Paws-- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    It seems like Caligula, Nero, much like young celebrities who rose to fame share that similar stress disorder.

    • @sto1238
      @sto1238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yea thankfully most young celebrities don’t kill people unless you’re an NFL tight end from the university of Florida

    • @johnsaunders2109
      @johnsaunders2109 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      A meaningless image for any non American !!!!

  • @sirtoke69
    @sirtoke69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    666k subscribers... Nero: Rome’s Antichrist
    coincidence?

    • @maelstrom2313
      @maelstrom2313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think not

    • @Ecocristero3
      @Ecocristero3 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cohencidence lol

    • @whocares7144
      @whocares7144 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Now 777k subscribers

    • @danielasefa1884
      @danielasefa1884 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Are...is... Simon making a deal with Lucifer and abandon or...lol

    • @jakaramoore523
      @jakaramoore523 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anyone got screen shots?

  • @simpleasebisees2954
    @simpleasebisees2954 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome explanation. Thank you

  • @laughingball
    @laughingball 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, one of the best IMO.

  • @cantbetamed2210
    @cantbetamed2210 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    "poisoned my stepbrother,
    ordered men to kill my mother,
    tried to drown her but she fled
    So I had her stabbed instead'
    -HH (Rome's Bad Emperors)

  • @farmerjoe6919
    @farmerjoe6919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Sometimes history just feels like someone spilling ancient tea

  • @hellothere9167
    @hellothere9167 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The tortures he did was severely inhumane

  • @orionrazilov5994
    @orionrazilov5994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    ''Have I neither friend nor foe?....'' so poetic and so crushingly lonely, I love it

  • @psychocookie5899
    @psychocookie5899 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I think a video on Madame Toussaud could be really interesting. Everyone knows about her wax museums but her true life story was just so incredible. I would love to see what you guys could dig up on her. Also, this video was amazing, had been waiting for it for a long time. Great job!💜

    • @shebbs1
      @shebbs1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not sure if it is Biographics, but there is a good one on YT. An interesting woman, to be sure. Will try and find it.

  • @nazz_uk298
    @nazz_uk298 4 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    History is full of savages and murderers it's unimaginable! We truly live in amazing time while I watch this on my phone of light..

    • @corbin8293
      @corbin8293 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      watching the unfolding of some of the most powerful people to ever live on witchcraftian brick that spews out light and sound is truly bewildering. To think desensitization has led to something truly remarkable to be such a norm

    • @31webseries
      @31webseries 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Moments like these, unfortunately, don't tend to last very long.

    • @O_Ciel_Phant0mhive
      @O_Ciel_Phant0mhive 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      not that amazing anymore...look around you :(

    • @nazz_uk298
      @nazz_uk298 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @R S Hardship and changes are part of life and we will come out better humans out of it I'm sure of it my people.

    • @blackandwhiteguy4264
      @blackandwhiteguy4264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Corona virus:I don't think so

  • @tylerfinnigan9785
    @tylerfinnigan9785 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow!! Amazing presentation!

  • @Ozturw
    @Ozturw ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good thank you for preparing this

  • @ubermikesocal
    @ubermikesocal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    20:34
    Vindex had a twin brother who had a fantastic talent of cleaning glass surfaces. His name was Windex.

    • @Psychol-Snooper
      @Psychol-Snooper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Indeed.

    • @BeckyEnchanted
      @BeckyEnchanted 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Life's interesting little details indeed

    • @RaycissCrackaDevil
      @RaycissCrackaDevil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      UberMikeSocal Slayer has a twin brother rapper Playa

    • @luckyspurs
      @luckyspurs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nero should have sent the pair off to Germany just to add to the confusion.

    • @BDXRP11B
      @BDXRP11B 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Another who liked to organize phone numbers: index

  • @Tia-Marie
    @Tia-Marie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    But boy did Nero love the theatre and dedicated to that old fashioned mum murdering! Keeping up with the Julio--Claudians should be a series =D

    • @jmchez
      @jmchez 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Perhaps named after the a man who witnessed all of the Julio-Claudian shenanigans. Maybe Emperor Claudius?

    • @Tia-Marie
      @Tia-Marie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @jmchez - I wouldn't mind a drunk history version of I, Claudius and Claudius, the god (obviously a version more less fantastical than the drama).

    • @Tia-Marie
      @Tia-Marie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @EbberDeeMills - Oh man, that would be their BEST SEASON yet.

    • @annstillwell730
      @annstillwell730 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out I Claudius. Great series about the family.

  • @mindflayer107191
    @mindflayer107191 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was a pleasure to watch. You resisted going on a tangent when discussing Kevin yuck Spacey. Thank-you. Good video

  • @dannychavez802
    @dannychavez802 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome video. Learned a lot.

  • @rodanzig
    @rodanzig 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    I guess today he would be convinced he was the greatest youtuber that ever lived .

    • @elabosak4135
      @elabosak4135 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Nero having a TH-cam channel is not something I want to imagine

    • @chadsknnr
      @chadsknnr 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Simon's not THAT bad . . . .

    • @waringaw.m6350
      @waringaw.m6350 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chadsknnr he meant Nero...

    • @chadsknnr
      @chadsknnr 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@waringaw.m6350 thx for stepping all over my punchline, guy . . . .

  • @corvus1374
    @corvus1374 4 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    Poor Sporus was later forced to play Poppea again, as the "wife" of the Emperor Otho, who had been the real Poppea's first husband.

    • @fisharepeopletoo9653
      @fisharepeopletoo9653 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      What a terrible life

    • @zakiahmed6655
      @zakiahmed6655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      poor kid i really genuinely feel sorry for the boy

    • @emilycupcakegirl367
      @emilycupcakegirl367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He was only 13😭

    • @katherinetutschek4757
      @katherinetutschek4757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😞😞😞😞😞

    • @KickingTeeRugby
      @KickingTeeRugby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Those emperors are gonna ROT in hell
      and I will be laughing at them , not out of hate but because of joy seeing their pain and torture

  • @JudeNance
    @JudeNance 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating. Thank you so much 💓

  • @user-fs2uy5ip4b
    @user-fs2uy5ip4b 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I cant stop watching these videos

  • @BladeRunnerNX6
    @BladeRunnerNX6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    I love your videos (:
    But you skipped over his obsessed relationship with the slave girl acte. They were in a secret relationship for about 3-4 years. Seneca helped him with this. Acte came before Sabina. She helped give him a proper funeral after his suicide.

  • @LundenVagrant
    @LundenVagrant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Simon Whistler saying "get your ass whipped" kinda just made my day.

  • @tesstiggle1047
    @tesstiggle1047 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Such a heart warming story. Thank you so much.

  • @Koopa3000
    @Koopa3000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Fact of the Day: Nero means Genius in finnish.

    • @annescholey6546
      @annescholey6546 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A psychotic white caterpillar

    • @paradisecityX0
      @paradisecityX0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And Black in Latin

    • @olleani
      @olleani 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@paradisecityX0 no that's Italian , black in Latin is Niger, the name Nero derived from the proto-italic word nēr, meaning man

    • @emperornero2902
      @emperornero2902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *Based*

    • @Nzosaba_Matenge
      @Nzosaba_Matenge 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@olleani Niger like the country or the slur?

  • @JT-cloverbottomt
    @JT-cloverbottomt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Simon.....neurosyphilis....it could explain why Nero had a good 5 years of stable thought at the beginning of his reign and then went insane. Thank you for the video. It was great!

    • @l.gcallahan2840
      @l.gcallahan2840 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Makes sense. Probably contracted from his many sexual exploits.

    • @intersanctum
      @intersanctum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      My exact thoughts.

    • @TGuard00014
      @TGuard00014 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was neurosyphilis circulating in Rome at the time?

    • @arsailor2341
      @arsailor2341 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If he didn't really kill his wife like some commenters are saying, if the Christians he killed really did start the fire (Remember Rome crucified Jesus and they were being led by Rebellious Jews), and IF the boy wasn't really kidnapped, but rather dressed like a girl to get noticed by the emperor and consented, then he wasn't crazy, just perverted.

    • @johnnyvivic8730
      @johnnyvivic8730 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Nero-syphilis"

  • @krokodilpil8335
    @krokodilpil8335 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Reminds me Nero CD Burning software. Nero burns your CDs while you fiddle.

  • @jackjones9460
    @jackjones9460 ปีที่แล้ว

    I do enjoy your presentations!