Sunday, September 10, 2017

Nero

Nero, per Suetonius:

1. May have invented the mullet. He's described as keeping the front of his hair fashioned into ringlets and grew his hair long in the back.

2. Suetonius either didn't get into the persecution of the Christians or did it so briefly I missed it while I was doing a slow boil on I-40. However, they didn't appear to be special. His outrages against the citizens and army reached a degree where everyone turned on him. His final plan was to burn the city to the ground and release wild animals to attack the survivors. The army got to him before he could execute it.

3. A fan of wrestling, hatched a plan to get the people back on his side before coming up with the above burn it to the ground strategy. He would appear completely nude in an ampitheatre before all of Rome and kill a lion either by wrestling it and breaking its neck or clubbing it to death. Hard to argue with the solidness of this strategy.

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