The mad emperor Emperor Nero is known to the public for his crazy act Legend has it that he allegedly set fire to Rome and watching the city fall played the harp reciting a poem about the death of Troy But in reality everything turns out to be exactly the opposite Modern historians believe that Nero immediately went to Rome and at his own expense organized rescue teams to save the city and its people Also during the fire he developed a new plan for the construction of the city In it Nero established a minimum distance between houses a minimum width for new streets and ordered that only stone buildings would be built in the city The fire raged for six days and destroyed most of the city Nero opened his palaces to the people left homeless and also took all necessary measures to ensure the city s supply of food and avoid starvation among the survivors It s interesting how legends can distort the image of a person and how history itself sometimes cannot give us precise answers and gets confused in its testimony Do you believe the official history Do you think the emperor was slandered or did he really set Rome on fire cute teen babyface babygirl skinny