Upon his return to Rome in 68, Nero failed to respond decisively to a revolt in Gaul, prompting further unrest in Africa and in Spain, where the governor Galba declared himself legate of the Senate and Roman People. With things falling apart at home, Nero took an extended tour of Greece, where he gave himself to music and theatrical performance, drove a chariot in the Olympic games, announced pro-Hellenic political reforms and launched an expensive and futile project to dig a canal across the Isthmus of Corinth. The emperorвЂ™s old advisor Seneca was caught up in the affair and forced to commit suicide. In 65 a high-level conspiracy to assassinate the emperor emerged, leading Nero to order the deaths of a prefect and several senators and officers. Reconstruction costs in Rome, revolts in Britain and Judea, conflicts with Parthia and rebuilding expenses in the capital forced him to devalue the imperial currency, lowering the silver content of the denarius by 10 percent. Via Nero Streaming Player browse and play all your media and make use of comfortable, enhanced features like viewing of family and friends via face recognition or by simply viewing places you have visited. NeroвЂ™s Decline and FallД«y the final years of his NeroвЂ™s rule, the Roman Empire was under great strain. At its center he commissioned a 100-foot-tall bronze statue of himself, the Colossus Neronis. Nero exhausted the Roman treasury rebuilding the city around his 100-acre Domus Aurea (вЂњGolden HouseвЂќ) palace complex.

Upon ClaudiusвЂ™ sudden death in 54-classical sources suggest Agrippina fed him poisoned mushrooms-the 17-year-old Nero ascended the throne. She arranged for Nero to wed ClaudiusвЂ™ daughter Octavia in 53, further sidelining the emperorвЂ™s son Britannicus. NeroвЂ™s mother, Agrippina the Younger, had married Claudius after arranging the death of her second husband and was the driving force behind her sonвЂ™s adoption. NeroвЂ™s Murderous Path to PowerД«orn Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, Nero took his familiar name when he was adopted at age 13 by his great-uncle, the emperor Claudius (his father, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, had died when the future emperor was only 2). He is best known for his debaucheries, political murders, persecution of Christians and a passion for music that led to the probably apocryphal rumor that Nero вЂњfiddledвЂќ while Rome burned during the great fire of 64 A.D.

until his death by suicide 14 years later. Perhaps the most infamous of RomeвЂ™s emperors, Nero Claudius Caesar (37-68 A.D.) ruled Rome from 54 A.D.

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