When the great fire of Rome of the year 64 began, Emperor Nero was in Antium. Tacitus even recounts that he returned to Rome and took steps to assist the victims, and later there was a rumor that, while the city was burning, he had sung the destruction of Troy. Suetonius and Dion Cassius were in charge of adorning the story, and so was born the immoral Nero, the ruler who, while his people behold the catastrophe, is occupied in the music.
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When the great fire of Rome of the year 64 began, Emperor Nero was in Antium. Tacitus even recounts that he returned to Rome and took steps to assist the victims, and later there was a rumor that, while the city was burning, he had sung the destruction of Troy. Suetonius and Dion Cassius were in charge of adorning the story, and so was born the immoral Nero, the ruler who, while his people behold the catastrophe, is occupied in the music.