Today I Found Out

Did Nero Really Fiddle When Rome Burned? (2015x115)

: 27, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Supe—“Nero fiddled while Rome burned”—has come to mean a person who is neglecting their duties, probably by doing something frivolous. Nero is painted as an emperor who didn’t care about his people, but it’s likely that he didn’t deserve such a bad reputation. This is extremely similar to the tale of Marie Antoinette- supposedly saying “Let them eat cake!” when hearing of the starving masses. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/07/nero-didnt-fiddle-while-rome-burned/ Sources: http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/did-nero-really-fiddle-while-rome-burned http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fiddling-while-rome-burns.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/nero-fiddled-rome-burned-myth http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/rome.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Rome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus Image Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Nero_1.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Marie_Antoinette_1767.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Quo_Vadis,_Nero_burning_Rome.jpg https://constructiveconsumption.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/pliny-the-elder.jpg https://annoyzview.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/rome01.gif https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/0_S%C3%A9n%C3%A8que_-_Mus%C3%A9e_du_Prado_-_Cat._144_-_(2).JPG http://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/nero-rome.jpg?itok=l_1ddjRe https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/John_William_Waterhouse_-_The_Remorse_of_the_Emperor_Nero_after_the_Murder_of_his_Mother.JPG https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3804/9502521252_df93345f92_b.jpg http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/fiddling-while-rome-burns.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Claudius_Pio-Clementino_In