PowerPoint Presentation Nero

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Nero

By Zach T.
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Child Hood

• He was born on 12/15 37 A.D. in a small Italian
  seaside town of Antium.
• Neros Mother was Agrippina the Younger
• He had two tutors, Burro and Seneca
• His father was Gnaeus Domitus Aheno.

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Family

• His father died when he was three.
• Neros mother married her uncle, the emperor of
  Rome and then had him and his son killed so Nero,
  her son Britannicus killed would become future
  emperor.
• He was great-great-grandson to the emperor
  Augustus

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Neros Career

• Was emperor of Rome
• Was emperor for 14 years. 54-68 AD
• Good emperor for first 5 years
• Became a bad emperor toward end of his life

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What Was Promised

• He promised to return to the principles of
  Augustus
• The Senate would be given a greater roll
• Speeches written by Seneca
• Seneca was also Neros tutor

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Most Famous For

• Was most famous for his Golden House
• Most expensive real estate in Rome
• Big enough to fit a statue of Nero, 120 feet high
• The Golden House was never completed.

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Known to people

• Nero developed a bad reputation because he was
  accused of starting the Great Fire and many other
  things.

• He is known as a very evil man, but if you look
  at overall what he did for Rome he was not so bad
  of an emperor.

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Determined

• Nero was the most determined person the known
  world had ever seen
• Nero would not let anything get in his way of
  building his golden house
• Nero was also determined not to let himself get
  blamed for anything so he did so he blamed the
  Christians.

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End of Life

• Nero died in 68 AD
• Nero committed suicide because while he was
  away in Greece revolts began. When Nero returned,
  the senate had agreed to let Nero die a slaves
  life. Nero was determined not to die this way so
  he stabbed himself in the throat.