Nero is one of ancient Rome’s most infamous characters, famously playing his fiddle while Rome burned below him. Shushma Malik peels back the myth to reveal his true life story
The Roman emperor Nero was a ruler with a huge appetite for violence and vice – murdering his family members, being branded the anti-Christ by Christians and ultimately being forced to take his own life at the command of the Senate. In our latest Life of the Week episode, Paul Bloomfield speaks to historian Shushma Malik to find out more about the infamous figure.