in our interior good documentary tour of an orangutan returns home on e.w. dot com a tank. nero murderer and despot a madman on the imperial throw. his name is inextricably linked with one of the biggest disasters of the ancient world the great fire of rock. nero set rome alight to make room for his own building plans effects the blame for the fire on the christians ordering the torture and execution of thousands. but scholars today question the legend of nero as the arsonist of rome and down to the initiated a policy of persecution against the christians. to date there is no archaeological evidence to support the theory that the apostle peter was ever in rome but there are mounting indications that nero's infamous crimes were described to the emperor by later writers. nero an eccentric ruler who wanted to be an artist and preferred to live in a world of fantasy. but neither an arsonist nor persecutor of christians. is july nineteenth in the year sixty four it hasn't rained for days. rome is home to almost a million people it's a sweltering summer night. the majority of rum