Sensitive and handsome, Nero (37 – 68 AD / reigned 54 – 68 AD) started out well as emperor. But his early promise gave way to wild extravagance and murder. His rule ended as violently as it ...

Nero was a Roman emperor who took the throne in A.D. 54 at ... which didn’t help improve their image of him. According to the historian Tacitus’s writings, he watched as Rome burned to the ...

The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most brutal and eccentric leaders. He is said to have killed his mother, stepbrother and wives, persecuted Christians and squandered a fortune ...

Living under absolute rule of an emperor, stoics were forced to walk a fine line between integrity and hypocrisy. Back in Rome, the murder of Claudius propelled Seneca's student, Nero, to the top job.