The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most brutal and eccentric leaders. He is said to have killed his mother, stepbrother and wives, persecuted Christians and squandered a fortune ...

Widely criticized after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, the Emperor Nero tried ... which accepted Christianity: 10 years later, it had become the official religion of the Roman Empire.

“But look at the great Christian emperor Constantine ... But what pleased the masses did not always please the Roman elites. When Nero insisted that senators compete along with commoners ...

Nero has gone down in history as one of Rome's cruelest and most sadistic emperors. And indeed, he certainly enjoyed a very unsavory reputation as a ruler who brought about the deaths of several ...

Early Christian preachers such as the Apostle ... But since Julius Caesar, his nephew the emperor Augustus, and all of the Roman emperors down to Nero traced their own ancestry back to Aeneas ...

Following the initial invasion of Britain, the Roman emperor, Claudius, arrived to symbolically lead his army to victory. In August, the Romans captured Camulodunum (Colchester), the capital of ...

Across centuries and continents, formidable fires once threatened to destroy three major cities: Rome, London and Chicago.

Most Christians fall under one of three main Churches: Roman Catholic ... alarmed by the rise of the new movement, Emperor Nero launched a brutal crackdown, arresting, torturing and executing ...

After the great fire that burnt a great part of the city, Emperor Nero points Paul ... their home as shelter for others Roman Christians to save them from Nero's soldiers, who kill all Christians ...