Brittney’s Reviews > Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome > Status Update

This is really teaching me he wasn’t the demon he was portrayed as in history. I had no idea him burning down Rome was a rumor. Also had no idea the Christian persecution was small potatoes and just developed into a larger martyr story down the line. Also, I have got to find a book on Boudica. That revolt against Rome was wild!

My god some of the true stuff is so outlandish! The way he had Agrippina killed had me clutching my figurative pearls.

Wow, Agrippina really said ok you’ve got to go… Call up the poison maiden.

It’s kind of sad Nero didn’t just get to be a musician or a poet or even a chariot racer. I wonder if things were different, he would have been a better person? Or was his mother’s goals and admirations for him just too high to overcome?

Agrippina really said, I’m just going to squeeze on in here and *poison* you all.