Emperor Nero
At the age of 17, Nero succeeded the throne of the Roman Emperor. He is the last one to do so in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. During his fifth year, he ordered the death of his mother and became more active in politics. Did you know that he was also a poet, musician, actor, and charioteer? People could not take him seriously because of this. He was hated by the middle and upper classes because he raised taxes to fund public and private works around the empire.
Emperor Nero
What Nero Really Looked Like
In 2019, artists from Spain worked on a lifelike rendering of this Roman Emperor. They based it on busts, descriptions, and drawings of Nero. They got his physical attributes right, down to his smirk and chinstrap. When a fire consumed Rome in 64 A.D., the emperor dressed and went up the roof to sing! Before he was killed, he announced, “What an artist dies in me!”
What Nero Really Looked Like
