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A lot of the narrative of Nero’s cruelty was just propaganda by those that opposed his ruling (though the extreme christian persecutions have been confirmed to be still true but Nero didn’t torment Romans). The general consensus was that Nero was loved by the average citizen but hated by all politicians and big figures of the time for not focusing on their political duties and just going on in his public performances. More of an incompetent ruler that got too much of an ego.
He wasn’t even in Rome at the time of the fire and housed the victims of the fire in his own palace. He was a champion for the common people and hated by the nobility and senate and made the most reforms for the poor.
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>had his own mother murdered on entirely trumped up sedition charges
>exploited the disaster of the great fire of rome to build a huge palace in the middle of the city for himself, and built a giant gilded statue of himself out front
>ordered the olympic games to change their schedule to match his trip to Greece so he compete (which was blasphemous as the games were a religious event set to a ritual calendar, which he considered less important than himself) and when he competed he won everything in entirely rigged games then returned to Rome and presented his cultural trophies in a triumph parade
>beat his pregnant wife to death
>forced a slave boy that sort of looked like her to troon out for him
>the famous christian persecutions to distract from his own failures
>extremely corrupt and incompetent administration causes disastrous 1st Roman-Jewish War, and the Boudiccan Revolt (not directly his fault, but they were caused by the extreme greed and callousness of his officers)
>despite it all failed at the tyrant's first job, which is to stay alive
don't fall for the nero was actually a good emperor meme. If the goal of an emperor was "peace in rome, quiet in the provinces" that was not accomplished.