Summary
Massimo Fini: Nero - 2000 Years of Lies
No historical figure, with the exception, perhaps, of Adolf Hitler, has ever been so vilified as Nero, whom some Christian writers, such as Victorinus, Commodius and Sulpicius Severus, considered no less than the Antichrist. Namely, Nero was a great statesman, but also a great lover of music, poetry, acting, fine arts, science and technology, initiator of the most daring explorations of the African and Asian continents. During the fourteen years of his reign, the Roman Empire experienced a period of peace, progress, cultural and economic development that it had never experienced before. He was certainly also a megalomaniac, a visionary, a mentally unstable personality, a victim of the ambitions of his authoritarian and unscrupulous mother, who at the age of seventeen placed the enormous burden of imperial power on his shoulders, while he, perhaps, preferred to dedicate himself to art and circus performances in the spirit of Greek civilization. At the same time, Nero was also an absolute monarch who tried to use his power in a democratic sense, ruling for the benefit of the people, and against the oligarchs who slandered and exploited him.
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