Over the course of six nights, the city burned. There had been big fires in Rome before, but this fire was far greater than any other which had affected the city. Fires were used for cooking everywhere, construction was shoddy, and firefighting techniques were poor at best. On the evening of July 19, in the year 64, a fire started underneath the stands in the Circus Maximum, Rome’s great chariot racing stadium.įires were a common problem in Rome and all ancient cities. It was also the center of the western world. Less than 100 years earlier it became the first city in human history to have a population of over 1,000,000 people. The Great Fire of Rome.ĭuring Nero’s reign, Rome was the largest city in the world. It was felt that Nero’s acting ambitions were undignified for the Emperor.ġ0 years into his reign, and at the ripe old age of 26, came the event which defined his reign as emperor. Nero thought himself a great singer and actor, and actors were looked down on by Roman society. Again, killing your own mother is not a good thing.įor 10 years he was pretty much a disappointment and very unpopular, especially with the upper class and the Roman senate. His stepfather, the Emperor Claudius, was believed to have been poisoned by Nero’s mother, Agrippina.įive years later, Nero had his own mother killed because he didn’t want her to overshadow him. Nero came to power at the age of 16, which is almost always a bad sign.
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You can get a free one month trial to Audible and 2 free audiobooks by going to /EverythingEverywhere or clicking on the link in the show notes. From this calamity, one of the ancient world’s most devastating events, legends grew: that Nero had been responsible for the fire, and fiddled while Rome burned and that Nero blamed the Christians of Rome, burning them alive in punishment, making them the first recorded martyrs to the Christian faith at Rome. The fire would spread over the coming days to engulf much of the city of Rome. In the year 64, on the night of July 19, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome’s great stadium, the Circus Maximus. My audiobook recommendation today is The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City by Stephen Dando-Collins.
Learn more about the Domus Aurea, or Nero’s Golden House, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. In no small part, this is due to how he reacted after the greatest fire ever to engulf Rome and what he built in its aftermath. In fact, on most lists of Roman Emperors, he would rank somewhere near the bottom. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known to history as just Nero, was not the best of Roman Emperors.
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We dream of a white house, serene, full of light, a golden light, where its inhabitants will be happy.Apple | Google | Spotify | Amazon | Player.FM | TuneInĬastbox | Stitcher | Podcast Republic | RSS | Patreon | Podvine | Goodpods At the higher rooftop level, the more private areas will be located, including the swimming-pool. On the upper floor, the bedrooms and living area overlooking the lower floor. Continuity to the garden will be through verandas and shaded areas. On the ground floor the most public areas. In functional terms, the house is divided into three planes. With this in mind, after creating a diagonal space resulting from concatenating two spaces of double height, I decided to gild the high vertical wall on which all the southern light would fall and fill it with this much-coveted golden hue.Īccordingly this light-filled house would be literally flooded with golden light, and thus become a veritable DOMUS AUREA. That is my stated intent with every new project that falls into my hands.Īnd of course, if Barragán is always present in all my architecture, he is even more in this case, which is why I decided that not only would my house be flooded with light, but that it would be the golden light of Barragán. And, logically, I did my utmost to ensure that this house would be the most beautiful in the world. To build the TEC lottery house in Monterrey is amazing. For a Spanish architect, to build a house in Mexico is a privilege.
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