The Great Fire of Rome happened in 64 A.D. One of his advisers, a philosopher named Seneca, encouraged him to step out of his mother’s arrogant shadow and after a failed attempt to drown his mother in a collapsible boat, Nero ordered his mother to be stabbed to death in her own home, he exiled and executed his own wife, married the woman he had an affair with, and three years later killed her in a fit of pure rage by kicking her once in the stomach. Nero is known for being quite ruthless and fierce during his persecution of Christians, but his past most likely only sparked the horrible things he had done before. After being adopted by his great-uncle, the emperor Claudius, when he was 13, Lucius took his more common name of Nero Claudius Caesar. and lived for 31 years until he took his own in 68 A.D.

Not only the fire drove Christians out of Rome, some fled to wherever they could possibly think of, and some chose to deny their Christianity and deny God when questioned or were being suspected of worshipping Christ and the Father.Īrguably Rome’s most infamous emperor, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, was born in 37 A.D. Nero viciously persecuted Christians, first he would arrest whoever confessed to be a Christians, then they would most likely either be torn apart by dogs, crucified, or possibly set on fire to illuminate the dark night and even to brighten the garden parties that Nero would host. a massive fire broke out and destroyed much of Rome, rumors had it that Nero was the one to blame for it, probably to divert those rumors of himself, Nero ordered that Christians should be rounded and killed. It has been claimed throughout the very early middle East that persecution of Christians started because they refused to worship the emperor, which most likely gave Nero more of a reason to hunt them, but is was highly likely that they were disliked because they refused to worship gods and perform in sacrifices which was considered to be normal in the Roman Empire. In his first five years of his rule, he was known to be a generous politician for sharing powers with the Senate and making political trials more open.

Nero’s horrible persecution of Christians during the first century shaped Christianity into what is now and he helped it spread whether he intended to or not.

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