Emperor Nero's Last Days Pt1

[Legomakerx]

Nero's gonna die? Good.

[pucksterz12]

This doc is pretty dull and stuffy. They could have liven things up here by having actors portray these historical events of Neros time. This is very old school and the kind of documentary the I hated growing up as a kid and forced to watch in school - -thumbs down here.

[Brainleaf74]

@pucksterz12 its a damn sight better than those god awful 300 rip off documentary`s .

[uafchris]

@pucksterz12 God no, that always ruins it. Think its brilliant like this, actors always make it seem amateurish and silly in my opinion.

[yTubeBlowsBigBalls]

OMG She committed to incest!!!

[gurniecabs08]

Is nero and Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus or Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus?????! CAN U TELL ME WHO IS CLAUDIOS??? PLS REPLY:)))))

[Khalid88Nasser]

The Claudians are so sick and weird, and they were the most arrogant and ignorant family in Ancient Rome, and how does an uncle marry his own niece ??

Herachiles the eastern roman emperor who was defeated by the Arab muslims married his niece also called martina and had nine children from her and were all sick and disfigured, and this was at a time when the Roman Empire was Christian =S how did the church approve of such a wedding?

[mrtundra45]

hahaha Nero was like the Geroge Bush of Rome. lol a Dumb Ass Hole.

[Saiaton]

Nero was likely Caligula's son. Caligula was incestuous with all his sisters. All the Julio-Claudians had mental problems of some kind that they passed off as epilepsy because that was believed divine inspiration and they interbred closely as well. Claudius even means Lame or Disabled..

[HistoryLover1550]

Messalina! That whore, she deserved her head cut off.

[HistoryLover1550]

Shocking how disgusting and murderous Germanicus and Agrippina's children became.

[TheDevilYouSayy]

@HistoryLover1550 I think your missing something, Caligula was his uncle who used to feed Christians to the lions for the entertainment of the Romans. Nero wasn't the evil of two people, the entire family was insane (likely due largely to inbreeding).

[HistoryLover1550]

@TheDevilYouSayy You're right about that!

[TheDevilYouSayy]

@HistoryLover1550 Funny thing, for a mommas boy like Nero trying to have his mother murdered that she actually survived because she suspected it. How many mothers can say that?

[HistoryLover1550]

@TheDevilYouSayy Not many I suspect.

[TheDevilYouSayy]

@HistoryLover1550 Lol ^_^

Even more interesting were his motives for wanting his mother dead which I imagine you are familiar with, fascinating characters nonetheless.

[HistoryLover1550]

@TheDevilYouSayy Fascinating, complex, and shocking!

[HistoryLover1550]

"Excentric"! Caigula was MAD!!!

[HistoryLover1550]

Julio-Claudians were abominable and depraved, Augustus was the only exception!

[HistoryLover1550]

Nero even forced women and children to fight each other in the gladiatorial games!

[yahxel26]

Nero is one of the worst Emperor in the World!

[scarr33]

No it was Caligula, Claudius and then Nero.

[ukgreaterlondon]

if constatine met nero nero would win and keep the pagans ruling europe :)

[nookie077]

"Eccentric" I can't believe they used that term to describe Caligula of all people. That must be the definition of an understatement.

[Frankie3112Nld]

claudius ruled before Nero...Claudius came to power when Caligula was murdered

[im4naruto]

Dude i got this from alesana :D

[osallent]

The ultimate testament to Rome's greatness is that she lasted as long as she did given the horrendous leadership qualities of most of it's Emperors.

Augustus would have wept if he could look into the future and see the poor excuses for Emperors that followed him. You could probably count the good ones in one hand....Trajan, Antonius Pius, maybe Marcus Aurelius, and Constantine....am probably missing one or two there, but that's about it!

[chitownzfinesthustla]

@osallent it was cus of its soldiers rome lasted not the senate not the roman emperors but the legions of romeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

[DrCruel]

@osallent Claudius wasn't awful. Vespasian was actually very good, as was his son Titus (although he didn't last long). Hadrian was decent. There were other good ones.

The Romans actually had pretty good leadership. It was the system that was not up to the task, being that it was cobbled together on the fly as Rome expanded. They never had a Confucius to institutionalize a bureacratic class, and had to make due with the Greek philosophers and a heretical form of Judaism.

[osallent]

@DrCruel You make some interesting points...Hadrian was decent, though his rule was hampered by the hatred and mistrust the senate had for him, and Claudius was a good one...but had the misfortune of terrible wives. I do like Vespasian and Titus very much. However, I will take exception with one comment of yours. By the time Christianity came into prominence in the Western Empire, the Empire was pretty much doomed anyway.

[DrCruel]

@osallent Half of that "doomed" empire carried on for another thousand years, in the east. But Christianity and Greek philosophy, although they led to the Enlightenment and to an eventual scientific revolution, were not what was needed to preserve an empire. For that you needed something closer to the managerialism that Confucianism offers.

Remember that, with Confucianism, China managed to survive a complete conquest by the Mongols. Even the Maoists have had to adopt their ideas to it.

[Oldcartoons571]

@DrCruel Christianity and a scientific revolution? Really? no

[DrCruel]

@Oldcartoons571 It was the Christians of Rome and Constantinople that preserved some part of the ancient world from the barbarians. It was the Christian scholastics and their university system that would provide the bedrock for scientific thought in medieval Europe. And in fact it would be the fall of Constantinople to the Turks that would partly trigger and fuel the Renaissance.

I understand such ideas are heretical to evangelical atheists. This does not make them any less true.

[SleepWhenIamDead]

@Oldcartoons571 hehehe and actually Orthodox Christianity does not deny Evolution, which infuriates the Fundies and even the Roman Catholics....the Eastern Church is very different from the Western....the East doesn't even believe in the Blood/Substitution Atonement Theory....

[gangst1978]

This is utterly unbelievable.

[ReyMysterioRO]

my dog is called nero :3

[giavirtae]

NICE FAMILY

[bronco3250]

Women. Beware of women.

[attackman456]

@TAKEMARU666 well ya i heard tht most romans were sad cuz he died but why did they see him as an enemy? his guards turned on him ryt? mayb he was just cruel 2 Christians......and mayb u r ryt...they mayb the ones who started it but heck,who knows?

[attackman456]

Nero is a persecutor and a cruel Emperor....a very brutal one...can u believe tht he tie Christians up and burn them? ALIVE!? Christian or not Christian u wud hate to be set on fire alive and he even killed his MOTHER...and Caligula...well he's crazy i mean,he got bored cuz no more criminals were being executed so he asked his guards to put one portion of the crowd watching the execution in the center to be Lion-chow and he turned his HORSE a priest and consul lol

[TAKEMARU666]

@attackman456 it was so long ago there isnt really evidence he was bad or good. christians could of actually started the fire. or an accident. also when nero died. alot fo the upper class was happy. but there are accounts of the lower class also known as the main population of rome including slaves. sad of his death and there are no credible witnesses of his murder of his wife. most likely child birth dificultys. its highly possible he was to nice and the senate was mad and wote propaganda

[Agent1W]

@TAKEMARU666 Kinda hard to be an arsonist when your hands and feet are already nailed to the cross, or about to get mauled by a lion, just because you don't believe in the emperor as your God. Nero and Domitian allowed this to happen, so that makes them bad in my book.

[IAMtheNewWorldOrder]

"He was reputed to have appointed his own horse as consul."

Lol. Gotta love Caligula.

[ryuthdionns]

Nero was a mixed breed "NEGRO" like Obama... NO?

[gmoneygrip1]

nero was a antiCHRISTIAN putting families to death. who followed JESUS. he is wicked.

[Dleifrag100]

@ulverup

(####! I'm surrounded by Christian haters) Never mimed.

[Dleifrag100]

@JRilla1879

Uh... (NO! No, no, no, no! Think, Deleifrag100, think! JRilla1879 will throw everything at me just like HouseOfOden did.)... Never mined, my opinions of Nero are the opposite.

[DreadfulSolemnity]

Nero killed his uncle, Claudius before sexually assaulting his own sister of which he was known carnally.

[TAKEMARU666]

@DreadfulSolemnity it was so long ago there isnt really evidence he was bad or good. christians could of actually started the fire. or an accident. also when nero died. alot fo the upper class was happy. but there are accounts of the lower class also known as the main population of rome including slaves. sad of his death and there are no credible witnesses of his murder of his wife. most likely child birth dificultys. its highly possible he was to nice and the senate was mad and wote propaganda

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

What a cunt, eh?

[jrkepler]

As the movie shows, Nero isn't the villian alone.  He was a beast from a machine made to create beasts.

[yellowhelloable]

Nero was too self-indulgent and obsessed. He had a whole bunch of hangers on around him who pandered to his whims and skated around his dangerous persoanality

[JRilla1879]

NERO WAS COOL I LIKED HIM

[ulverup]

HAIL NERO

death to christians

[Silenz1oStampa]

@ulverup fukk ur mother

[fmaholiclover]

HAIL !

[panos13noe]

Nero was probably the most evil roman emperor in history.

[PGY2J]

Caligula haters lol

[foofwolf22]

I'm a fan of Caligula...

[esben6]

666, the number of the beast = nero

[JoKeR2280]

HAIL CAESAR !!!!!!!!!!!!

[peakchua]

history channel sometimes inaccurate

[marongiu68]

Hail!

[royalsteven]

Nero was first anti-christ. I rather have Caesar or Constantine. Luckily he wasn't called Hero o_O

[figocooldude]

The hell with the weak Constantine, long live passionate NERO!!!

[royalsteven]

Why was he weak? Just give me one good reason why killing innocent people isn't weak?

[figocooldude]

Making a deal with the pagan christians just because they had become better organized then his empire is weak, but I must admit he was a good conquerer. They were not innocent in the first place.

[pervertedmind]

Hail NERO.

[pervertedmind]

:22, stoner leafs.

[420alldayy]

lol

[earlytosleep]

I'm addicted to this series. Didn't Caligula rule b4 Nero? Why was he skipped??

[CassiusTheGreat2008]

yep caligula did. not sure why they left him out of this series

[alonelychild]

@CassiusTheGreat2008 Perhaps because he is too controversial due to Gore Vidal´s film

[XtremeDreamerX]

@CassiusTheGreat2008 While Caligula was indeed more insane than Nero himself, many of his acts were either done in his personal life or in the elite class, not to the populous. Such as extremely high taxes, a death campaign in order to collect money, robbing Rome's sacred temples and not to mention the rumor of burning down the entire city itself. While Caligula was notable, he did not nearly bring the empire to ruin, like Nero.

[lisakarneyhillroad]

@CassiusTheGreat2008 Claudius ruled before Nero, Caligula before him!

[meigsman59]

@CassiusTheGreat2008 Do you think that the reign of Nero may have been the start of Rome's decline? Or do you think it was at a later time?

[Oldcartoons571]

@meigsman59 It was much later. Rome at this time could easily handle an Emperor like Nero. Later when enemies increased and they started having generals cause civil wars more often they started to decline.

[BigDogJang0]

@CassiusTheGreat2008

No, Claudius ruled before Nero, and THEN Caligula.

[KayyDizzl3]

@CassiusTheGreat2008 Perhaps because Tacitus' Annals have been lost and the limited/ one sided (Suetonius) information makes Caligula harder to document? Just a guess.

[movitmovit]

@CassiusTheGreat2008 was there one for tiberius?

[leppy111]

@earlytosleep Caligula was Claudius predesesor and nephew, Nero was Claudius's step son

[NeroJackHeart]

He's my hero.

[PanayotiProductions]

whats your star sign maybe thats why you like him? im a sagittarius with a leo moon just like nero and i like him too i can self reflect. deep down nero was a good guy that just wanted to have fun. The responsibility and stress of being emperor drove him mad, it didnt appeal to his free spirit.

[PrivateThomas01]

the Devil was in him....sad

[baronblod2003]

Go play with some lions or something.

[PrivateThomas01]

how about you go get a life and on top of that get baptized. Dont talk to me Demon i had enough of your ignorance for 1 day.

[baronblod2003]

You escaped from the lions? I see...Let's see how you'll do when i summon the hounds!

*summons hounds*

[ARXHMalakas]

the hounds are asleep melord

[baronblod2003]

Asleep you say? Well, let's give the lions another try, shall we? If that were to fail, send in the the slaves that has been starved for 3 weeks. I'm sure they're hungry by now...

[ARXHMalakas]

christian detected

[figocooldude]

@Private Thomas, Nero killed Paul and Peter, how do you like that? HAHA Besides, since you hate isreal, you should admire Nero for starting the first Roman-Jewish war.

[420alldayy]

lol, just because the guy was a nut case does not mean the devil was inside him..why is it you religious nuts always use it as a cruch when someone is ill in the head..look what happened to the guy most people would be mentally ill also.

[seandizzy]

emperor nero was the devil solomon said it ..

[taurausbull]

@seandizzy is the devil, Christ said it.

[cpthurme]

Agrippina was the mother from hell

[wachaufeuropa]

I like Caligula better than Nero.

Caligula was so far in his insanity that he had no fears.

Nero was fearing all the time and very insecure.

[kevinwadeheat]

nero's a wierd kunt emporer

[TalonMercenary]

Nero once held an arena match between a dwarf and a blind man. I can't help but find that funny even though it was awful

[itsmister2u]

@TalonMercenary i bet Nero did too.

[TalonMercenary]

@itsmister2u  lol yeh

[TAKEMARU666]

@TalonMercenary lol

[PeterBluth]

@TalonMercenary Kind of sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke, doesn't it?

[yamila68]

Nice documentary...I enjoyed it very much. Thanks for the upload. Do you have anything on the Roman Legions or the Roman War Machine?

[CassiusTheGreat2008]

i have some comeing up soon

[yamila68]

Hey dude, you say you have something coming up soon on the Roman Legions or the Roman War Machine. Please let me know when you upload it. Thanks!

[CassiusTheGreat2008]

will do Peace

[riverdragon666]

very informative thanks for the post