Rome Burns, Christians Die - July 19, 64 AD
About this episode
This episode discusses the duality of Nero's response to the Great Fire of Rome and the subsequent persecution of Christians.
When Rome burned for six days in 64 AD, the emperor Nero organized real disaster relief and then built a palace on the cleared land and blamed an obscure religious minority for the fire. This episode holds both truths at once: a competent crisis response from a man who had every reason to want the fire to happen, and a documented atrocity against people guilty of nothing but being convenient to hate.
People in this episode
Host: Richard G Backus
Topics covered
- Nero
- Rome
- disaster relief
- Christian persecution
- historical events
- atrocities
- crisis response
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Christians
Places: Rome
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