Ahead of construction of a luxury hotel, archaeologists working at a site near the Vatican unearthed the ruins of a private theater where the notoriously cruel Roman emperor Nero once prepared for his public appearances.
One of the structures was a semicircular cavea where an audience would have sat in tiers, facing the decorated background of a Roman theater stage to the west. What’s left indicates the background was covered with marble and gold leaf. The second building was perpendicular to the first and had rooms that seem to have been service areas for stage equipment, such as sets and costumes.
In C.E. 49 Agrippina became Claudius’s fourth wife, although the marriage between an uncle and a niece was considered scandalous. Within a few months of their marriage, Agrippina persuaded Claudius to adopt her 12-year-old son, who would also be his heir. The boy changed his name to Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, and he became emperor when Claudius died in C.E. 54—possibly after Agrippina poisoned him.
The emperor’s greatest claim to infamy may be that he “fiddled while Rome burned.” In fact, Nero often played a type of lyre called a cithara. But there’s no evidence he did so at the time of Rome’s great fire in C.E. 64 or that he was even in the city when it occurred.
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