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The Theatre of Nero (Latin: Theatrum Neronis) [1] was the private theatre erected in Rome by Nero, the Roman emperor between AD 53 and AD 68. [ 2 ] It was known only from literary sources until its remains were discovered in 2020.
The history of Nero's reign is problematic in that no historical sources survived that were contemporary with Nero. These first histories, while they still existed, were described as biased and fantastical, either overly critical or praising of Nero. [137] The original sources were also said to contradict on a number of events. [138]
The Roman elite despised Emperor Nero’s “artistic endeavors,” a historian said. Nero’s theater — where audience may have sat on ‘pain of death’ — discovered in Rome Skip to main ...
Ruins of a private theater belonging to the 1st century Roman Emperor Nero have been unearthed in the Italian capital just meters from the Vatican, in what experts are calling an “exceptional ...
This is a timeline of Roman history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Roman Kingdom and Republic and the Roman and Byzantine Empires. To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire .
Rome’s next luxury hotel has some very good bones: Archaeologists said Wednesday that the ruins of Nero’s Theater, an imperial theater referred to in ancient Roman texts but never found, have ...
[55] [56] [57] Nero created the Quinquennial Neronia, which was a festival involving musical competitions. [58] The Actian games, which was an ancient Roman festival of Apollo, also held musical competitions. [59] The Greeks and Romans might have held musical performances in between the meal and the drinking party during dinner. [60]
64 AD - The Great Fire of Rome, rumored to be blamed by Nero on the Christians. c. 65 AD - Blamed for causing the Great Fire, Christians in the city are persecuted. 72 AD - Work on the Flavian Amphitheatre (Colosseum) begins.