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 ...

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 ...

The forgotten statue of Nero at the Isthmus of Corinth is a relic of the time the Roman emperor granted freedom to a part of ancient Greece.

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 ...

Excavations at Domus Aurea, the former imperial residence of Roman emperor Nero, have yielded remnants of the rare Egyptian ...

10 Worst Roman Emperors Welcome to WatchMojo ... Many contemporaries blamed Nero for starting the fire himself, either to scapegoat Christians or clear land for a new, extravagant palace.

Archaeologists unearthed an ancient Roman structure known as Nero's Theater. Nero was known as an emperor who had an affinity for theater and music, PBS reported. He reigned over Rome from 54-68 AD.

A great fire ravaged Rome in A.D. 64 and, according to an apocryphal story, Nero played a fiddle during it. In A.D. 68, the Praetorian guard, the forces in charge of protecting the emperor ...

ROME (Reuters) - A section of Ancient Roman Emperor Nero's vast underground Domus Aurea (Golden House) was reopened to the public on Friday after extensive restoration and repair work to protect ...