![]() Unsurprisingly, he won every event he entered. He even went as far as entering the Olympic Games and forcing the organizers to include artistic competitions. As emperor, he hosted a range of events and competitions to play in public. In Roman culture, professional actors and musicians were, socially speaking, barely higher than whores or slaves. By the time Nero became the emperor of Rome at the age of seventeen, he had been trained in the arts and was a talented singer, musician, and reciter of poetry. Much has been made of Nero’s violent tendencies, but Nero had a softer side (which was also crazy). Nero appears to have begun his reign relatively sane, but increasingly fell into a paranoia that left him a little crazy. ![]() The most famous of them is probably Nero. To be honest, you could write an entire list just of crazy rulers of Rome. ( 画中的日 记 / CC BY SA 4.0 ) 2.Nero the Mother Killer If you thought the man who had a terracotta army built for him was insane, you were right! Qin Shi Huang’s search for immortality resulted in his own death.
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