Changes

The '''Burning of Rome''' actually refers to several conflagrations in the history of the city.  

The '''Burning of Rome''' actually refers to several conflagrations in the history of the city.  

It has been said that the city was anciently burned when it was sacked in 387 B.C., but there appears to be little or no substantive archaeological evidence that it was actually burned at that time. It was burned during a civil war in 83 B.C.; the fire lasted about one and a half days, confined to a limited area of the Capitol Hill.  

It has been said by [[Livy]] that the city was anciently burned when it was sacked in 387 B.C., but there appears to be little or no substantive archaeological evidence that it was actually burned at that time.  

 

Rome was burned during a civil war in 83 B.C.; the fire lasted about one and a half days, confined to a limited area of the Capitol Hill.  

The '''Great Fire of Rome''' in A.D. 64 during the reign of [[Nero]] is the most famous, and was one of the worst disasters in the history of the city. It lasted six days. The multitude of deaths was overwhelming and devastating. Many blamed Nero himself for arranging the setting of the fire by his agents. According to [[Suetonius]] and [[Eusebius]] the emperor used the disaster to blame and persecute the Christians as a way to eliminate Christianity with its belief in the Lord Jesus Christ, and to deflect blame from himself. Others claim that since Nero was away from the city, the fire was an accidental tragedy. There is no foundation to the rumor that Nero fiddled while Rome burned; it is recorded by contemporary sources that he was "entranced by the beauty of the flames" and that he sang the whole of the ''Fall of Troy'' from beginning to end as he watched. The Great Fire of Rome in A.D. 64 is almost universally the one connected with any mention of the burning of Rome.  

The '''Great Fire of Rome''' in A.D. 64 during the reign of [[Nero]] is the most famous, and was one of the worst disasters in the history of the city. It lasted six days. The multitude of deaths was overwhelming and devastating. Many blamed Nero himself for arranging the setting of the fire by his agents. According to [[Suetonius]] and [[Eusebius]] the emperor used the disaster to blame and persecute the Christians as a way to eliminate Christianity with its belief in the Lord Jesus Christ, and to deflect blame from himself. Others claim that since Nero was away from the city, the fire was an accidental tragedy. There is no foundation to the rumor that Nero fiddled while Rome burned; it is recorded by contemporary sources that he was "entranced by the beauty of the flames" and that he sang the whole of the ''Fall of Troy'' from beginning to end as he watched. The Great Fire of Rome in A.D. 64 is almost universally the one connected with any mention of the burning of Rome.