Nero did not fiddle while Rome burned. Several years ago Frontline did a documentary where they produced documents proving that Nero was actually leading the fire brigade attempting to put out the fire. The fiddling propaganda was produced by Josephus who was not an unbiased historian but rather a Christian apologist. The Christians hated Nero and Josephus produced this fake history to try to discredit him. Christians at that time were a Jewish cult. On the other hand George W. Bush actually did pretend to play the guitar while New Orleans drowned during Katrina. This fact seems to have gone down the memory hole leaving us with the fake history regarding Nero. As a historian surely you are aware of how bad our historical knowledge is in many instances. Propaganda did not just come onto the scene yesterday.
Juan,
Nero did not fiddle while Rome burned. Several years ago Frontline did a documentary where they produced documents proving that Nero was actually leading the fire brigade attempting to put out the fire. The fiddling propaganda was produced by Josephus who was not an unbiased historian but rather a Christian apologist. The Christians hated Nero and Josephus produced this fake history to try to discredit him. Christians at that time were a Jewish cult. On the other hand George W. Bush actually did pretend to play the guitar while New Orleans drowned during Katrina. This fact seems to have gone down the memory hole leaving us with the fake history regarding Nero. As a historian surely you are aware of how bad our historical knowledge is in many instances. Propaganda did not just come onto the scene yesterday.