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Emperor Nero's Reigns

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According to Tacitus, Emperor Nero was not in Rome when the great fire broke out. When he did return, Nero brought supplies and opened public buildings for those displaced, and blamed the Christians for the fire. Tacitus portrays Nero in a positive light, which might have differed from how Nero really was. Why couldn’t historians write objectively about emperors during their

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