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 What types of things are there to do when in ROAM?

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 Tips and advice on Rome please?
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Nerio

Who fiddled while Rome burnt?


    



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The Muse
Nero: He is known for a number of executions, including those of his mother[4] and adoptive brother: as the emperor who "fiddled while Rome burned":



jockman432004
oooh err ! missus
Gotta be Frankie Howerd! lol


Vincent A
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On the subject of Roman Fiddlers,
Do you know know that Nicolo Paganini suffered from priapism?


amazingly intelligent
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Nero. Or so the legend goes. There is no proof.


Cycwynner
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It's all bunkum. The lie was spread many years later by Nero's enemies, because he supposedly blamed the Christians for the great fire.
What is true is that he rebuild the previously highly inflammable Rome, that had many wooden buildings, with new brick and marble.

Just a technical point: the "fiddle" had not even been invented at the time. If anything he would have played the "lyre", a sort of harp, which was one of his passions.


Rachel H
Nero. Also known as Peter Ustinov.



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