This fire was known as the Great Fire. It lasted for six days. There were different accounts relating to what Nero was doing while this was happening. Cassius claims that Nero “climbed on to the palace roof, from which there was the best overall view of the greater part of the fire and sang the ‘Capture of Troy’” (Emperor Nero). Another claim from Tacitus said that “At the very time that Rome burned, he mounted his private stage and, reflecting present disasters in ancient calamities, sang about the destruction of Troy” (Emperor
This fire was known as the Great Fire. It lasted for six days. There were different accounts relating to what Nero was doing while this was happening. Cassius claims that Nero “climbed on to the palace roof, from which there was the best overall view of the greater part of the fire and sang the ‘Capture of Troy’” (Emperor Nero). Another claim from Tacitus said that “At the very time that Rome burned, he mounted his private stage and, reflecting present disasters in ancient calamities, sang about the destruction of Troy” (Emperor