Matthew Andrews is correct. Some houses are fictional but the Starks are loosely based on the York’s and the Lannister’s based on the Lancaster’s. Even the maps of England and Westeros are similar. Hadrian’s Wall = The Wall. Both kept the wild free folk out of the south. There’s a few more like some of the battles, (I think), but I cannot recall right now.
@@Biographics Hey, can you do a video on Bass Reeves next. He was a black cowboy and law man who caught over 3000 criminals through out his service. Some of the stories of his ordeals are like stuff from classic western movies. In fact there is popular belief that the Lone ranger is based on his adventures. It would be a really entertaining video.
*BioGraphics:* “Emperor Nero was actually beloved for a time by his people [and] he never actually fiddled as Rome burnt.” *Me:* ‘I guess he wasn’t that bad after a-‘ *BioGraphics:* “He instead fiddled a boy he had abducted and castrated because he resembled the wife he had previously kicked to death.” *Me:* 😐
Honestly, Agrippina the younger’s story is more intriguing. The Mad autocrat is a tale as old as time but how a girl who was married off to a sleazy old man at 13 and excommunicated then climbed her way to the top is a story about someone with tremendous will, keen strategy and aptitude for treachery. I’d like to see that story told
She wasn't married at 13! She was the neice of Claudius and married him for political reasons when Nero was around 10! It was totally incestuous, but freely entered into by a scheming mature woman! And how was she excommunicated? Rome did not become Christian for another 300 years !!!
I wouldn’t really say it was all that impressive. She was exiled by her brother for years and was only welcomed back to Rome because she was Emperor Claudius’s only relative left besides Nero. If the Praetorian Guard hadn’t killed Caligula and his daughter, Agrippina would have never returned to Rome. Upon her return, she then seduced Emperor Claudius, a man who was commonly seen as weak and unmanly due to his stutter and limp. His own wife had cheated on him for years and Claudius wasn’t known to be desired by any. I doubt it was all that hard to seduce such an insecure and undesirable guy, especially when you’re his only close connection left to a family that he always craved respect from. At the end of the day, just like Claudius, Agrippina was someone who got lucky enough to get exactly the right conditions for success.
1:35 - Chapter 1 - Family ties 5:30 - Chapter 2 - Where the monster was nurtured 9:15 - Chapter 3 - The artistic emperor 12:15 - Mid roll ads 13:30 - Chapter 4 - Let the mother burn 17:10 - Chapter 5 - The horrors of love 20:30 - Chapter 6 - "What an artist dies in me"
“Emotionally unstable 16 year old...“ show me a 16 year old that isn’t emotionally unstable; the difference being they don’t get to rule an empire with everything that comes with it
@@luckyspurs Marcus Crassus and Julius Ceaser (the real bedrock of the start of Roman Empire from a republic) had the sharpest wits out of any men in all of human history. They were not mad nor were they deviated, they were completely ruthless in control of every aspect and were the two greatest minds of Roman dominance. Also were among the top 5 genuine battle warriors that Rome had, they were both near on the same level of Spartacas and Alexander the great, myth of Achilles in skill.
Imagine being so cruel and twisted with your tortures and executions that even the blood thirsty Romans thought it was too much. That's saying something when you really think about it 😲
Using innocent people as human garden torches and feeding them to beasts for entertainment...yeah I think Hitler, Stalin and Mao have at least a rival for "most evil man in history".
@@tuckemon I feel like Nero style brutality is almost more demented because it’s achieving no goal. It’s not worse by scale at all but it was just aimless human suffering for the pleasure of evil people.
Uhhh no the emperor's and the elite were cruel, that doesn't mean every roman was automatically cruel lol. Maybe to foreigners but there'd be no reason to act so cruel against your own people for so little
@@thunderbird1921 yeah, they aren't even close. Those three did their actions for a reason, to improve their peoples and countries. Nero was just a sadist. Why is this such a difficult concept for people to grasp
You mean a Magnificent Scotlands ice king Chad getting stabbed by Some weird ass little girl using a knife with his fellow cripple brother?. Yeah such a tragics ending for our Chad Icy king
Actually, a lot of people were pleased when Nero killed his mother, as they considered her a bad influence on him. She was widely hated for marrying Claudius, and rumors abounded that she even slept with Nero in order to control him.
ChristIan Rome was only more brutal during the later part of the claudian dynasty (under Tiberius, Caligula, and the later part of Nero’s reign), during the year of the four emperors, and during the decline of the Western Roman Empire. Ancient Rome was actually better than Westeros the rest of the time
This video was exceptional. Ancient Rome was fascinatingly bonkers. You did an amazing job squeezing the whole of Nero’s life into 25 minutes. Keep up these great videos. Cheers.
"The queen of England dancing naked for money in an Amsterdam brothel." That has to be one of the funniest things I've heard a You Tuber say. He's comparing Nero being an artist to that level of outrage.
@@johnsaunders2109 are you actually mocking the Queen of great britain scotland and northern island and head of the common wealth where her ancestor ruled the largest empire the world had ever seen ruling over 412 million people?!! And the most powerful empire the world had ever seen
In a way, Fate Nero is more accurate depiction of the historical Nero, if we ignore the genderswap and the lack of inclusion of the more unsavory acts he committed in her counterpart's background
In fact he wasn't even there, he had an alibi. He was 60km away and when he learned about the fire, he rushed back home to organize the fire-fighters and the relief-efforts...!
It's all relative! Nero was not as bad as his lunatic uncle, Caligula. And compared to a lunatic future emperor. Egalobarbus, who reigned I the 220s AD, he was almost a social democrat!
I have a theory that nero was suffering from like a severe mental illness and that he did love his wife but again severe mental illness so he did bad stuff idk like do you know those serial killers in stories who kills their s/o? yeah but ofc even if it is true his actions will never be justified and never should be too. I think he does a really good complex antagonist fictional character but unfortunately he was real lol
Roman senate: We need you to be serious Emperor, The empire is in trouble. Nero: *censored* you I'm having too much fun and you're interrupting my art!
Agrippina had a great teacher, her tactics and way to power echoes Livia, Augsutus' wife. Being under her protection for most of her life until Livia's death, it's incredible to see how Agrippina managed to control the Roman political stage and bend it to her will, even succumbing later to death just like Livia, taking control from her son and eventually dying becasue of it.
@Bobby Knuckles Really?. Even in Ancient Rome they called Jesus as "A Jews who dead in the Cross" same for the Jews who call him a Usurper but instead he can make a religion out of it. Your thoughs is just a prespective nowdays Society depicted it from
NoRe christianity can be considered a sect of judean faith back in those days...greece is the main reason why christianity is considered a different religion...heck christians the way the world see them nowadays would of been sojourners, strangers, servants and refugees in ancient jewish societys....also as a heads up...the difference between hebrews and jewish peoples comes from a political struggle that happened during the time hebrews were conquering the land of the caaninites....jewish people come from the tribe of judah, one of 12 hebrew tribes, which split off and claimed a city that would become jerusalem while the other 11 founded isreal.
I don't know who does the writing, but I've noticed, no matter what our previous notion of the entity whose biography is being discussed, you guys have a way of writing it and Simon has his way of narrating it, that at the end, you got us thinking: _"Hey, the dude wasn't so bad after all. I mean, ge may have murdered 20 million innocent civilians, but he could have been any one of us."_ ... You bastards! I want you guys to prepare my eulogy when I die :)
@Ron H That's what I like about this channel. Instead of leading you on with opinion-based descriptors, the facts of the matter are laid out in an entirely unbiased manner for us to mull over inernally. Its actual content instead of hand-holding.
I mean, it's kinda like that old Reddit (?) post with the still from one of Hitler's home videos made by Eva Braun where he's smiling and flirting with her, saying that he should be filming her. It shows he was just as human as the rest of us, and that alone is more genuinely terrifying than anything made by horror writers of the day. Because as much as we want to tell ourselves that only the truly evil monsters would do the things he did, under the right circumstances, any of us could do great acts of evil.
Seneca was actually Nero's educator as a child and his advisor along with Burrus during his initial years of reign. The older Nero got, the less advice he took from them. That's why his rulership got worse and worse over time, especially after Burrus died and the old Seneca was left all alone with the cruel mind of a mad ruler.
8:58 Cue the dramatic shot shot and EPIC ost. That was an INSANE plot twist, i imagine them being horrified by him doing the unthinkable in their culture, that also bring fear on what he might do next.
NO. Rome's craziest emperor (of the Claudians anyway) was indisputably Caligula. I think Simon has it absolutely right. Nero is what you get when you raise --- or rather, let your son grow up --- the way Agrippina Junior used her son as of puppet to achieve power for herself. Is anyone surprised that he had her murdered? I'm not.
True. But I have to respectfully disagree with you. Nero captured (or ordered) a boy, chopped his private parts off, married him and fondled him. All because the boys face looked like his dead wife (whom he killed as well). That alone, deserves to have him placed as the worst Emperor that Rome has ever had (as far as an empire is concerned). Caligula on the other hand, was psychotic but most of his evilness came from his brain because he was most likely poisoned (which in turn most likely fried his brain). Nero didn’t have that, he was in full control of his actions. He chose his fate. Plus, he burned Christian’s as well.
The historian Tacitus (who hated Nero btw so no reason he would write good things about him), thought this was absolutely ridiculous and a baseless accusation, and there seem to have been rumours that Poppaea was poisoned.
@שָׁחוֹר יֵשׁוּעַ alot of nero's history we have today was written 50-150 years after his death by the senatorial class who opposed him. And the different authors contradict themselves on many events. So take these wild perverse stories with a grain of salt and as attempts to stain his legacy. You have to remember he reigned for 14 years which is a very long time for an emperor who is considered one of the worst ever. Most bad emperors in Rome's history did not last this long in power
I feel like aliens keep trying to reveal themselves to us but every time they show up they see ish like Nero and they’re like, “You know, they really don’t seem to be doing well. Maybe we’ll come back in 5,000 years.”
@@CaptainSebAviation Wouldn't Christianity have been a small sect of Judaism at the time? I don't think calling it a cult when referring to this time period is a bad thing.
I think a video on Madame Toussaud could be really interesting. Everyone knows about her wax museums but her true life story was just so incredible. I would love to see what you guys could dig up on her. Also, this video was amazing, had been waiting for it for a long time. Great job!💜
I wrote my final essay on Nero in a history class in college, all had to be from memory, and I’m proud of how much I remember correctly 8 years later 🤩 still, of course, learned much new information as well! Thanks for your and your team’s work, Simon!
Epstein did not kill himself. Do you really think it was only a ""coincidence" that BOTH surveillance cameras "malfunctioned" just before Epstein died, that his guards were not held accountable for failing to check on him, or that he was being held in America's most Jewish city, and one of its most corrupt, at the time of his death? When I heard where he was being held, I predicted he would either die in jail or escape to Israel. I really hate being correct so often when it comes to my political predictions. If only I were more fallible! You almost can't be too cynical when it comes to politics.
Ross Cherry OH btw type in Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Documentary. It has tonnes of interviews and a fantastic telling of both the lives of Marshall and the female leader (can't remember her name) Really recommend it. Pretty non biased reporting (as this channel normally is)
Simon.....neurosyphilis....it could explain why Nero had a good 5 years of stable thought at the beginning of his reign and then went insane. Thank you for the video. It was great!
If he didn't really kill his wife like some commenters are saying, if the Christians he killed really did start the fire (Remember Rome crucified Jesus and they were being led by Rebellious Jews), and IF the boy wasn't really kidnapped, but rather dressed like a girl to get noticed by the emperor and consented, then he wasn't crazy, just perverted.
I read that in ancient Latin they pronounced their v's as "w". For instance, "Veni vidi vici" was actually pronounced "weeny widi weeky". Of course, what his means is that Vindex may actually have been pronounced as... ... "windex".
watching the unfolding of some of the most powerful people to ever live on witchcraftian brick that spews out light and sound is truly bewildering. To think desensitization has led to something truly remarkable to be such a norm
One of the best presentations of Nero's story that I have ever seen. The team that produced this worked very hard and I appreciate their efforts. I've read some of the old histories and can't fault this excellent video.
Simon I love that you're becoming more colorful and engaging with your narrations. It's great to see your channel moving forward and growing in such a great direction! You should do a video on yourself some time so we can learn about you.
So he was like an extreme version of Marie Antoinette, thrust into unwanted power in adolescence, when a person doesn't even know who they are, let alone what the world is.
I love your videos (: But you skipped over his obsessed relationship with the slave girl acte. They were in a secret relationship for about 3-4 years. Seneca helped him with this. Acte came before Sabina. She helped give him a proper funeral after his suicide.
I've always enjoyed History more than any other subject but Simon has really opened my eyes to things I've missed or just glossed over. I really enjoy his videos, love his energy. I would still like to see some of his outtakes.
I think Sporus must be an interesting character. To go from a young boy to being dressed as the empress, or being the empress, for that old Nero. Damn...
Robert Burkhart that's hard to say, Egyptians took deification of their rulers more seriously than any other civilization I know of, so writing something unflattering about a ruler was a potential death sentence and it also seems that Egyptians as a whole were mostly illiterate other than privileged upper class citizens who wouldn't have much reason to criticize the king anyways and if ever a king was hated and/or seen as a disgrace such as Akhenaten than the last thing that they would do is write about him because they believed that a person'sname was magic and that to speak of that person would give them power, they thought that the best thing to do in that situation was to destroy any trace of that person and to forget about them as this was seen as the ultimate damnation, that their soul would cease to exist
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority.” Becoming emperor was the worst thing that could have happened for him and his victims.
Most historians state that Nero bad reputation is extremely exaggerated since the only sources we have of his rule comes from those who overthrew him so of course they're going to tarnish his name as a way to justify overthrowing him. Its like when you like a girl but she's in a bad relationship but doesn't want breakup so you tell her that he probably cheating, he don't love you, he using you, hes banging you're best friend, ect.
*Yeah, and you can definetly say that Claudius had it coming to him.* *_Morale of the story: never let others abuse your kindness, because if you do, then they most certaintly will._*
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Pro gamer Simon is at it again
Why are kangaroo courts called "kangaroo courts "?
Biographics are you Russian spy ?
damn dude, usually sponsored video plugs are pretty lame....
you really killed it with that bluntness tho.
GG
Please don't ever say "long-ass" ever again...
Rome's history makes Game of Thrones look like a children's Saturday cartoon.
@Matthew Andrews You're referring to the black dinner, right?
Lol this comment deserves an award.
Matthew Andrews is correct. Some houses are fictional but the Starks are loosely based on the York’s and the Lannister’s based on the Lancaster’s. Even the maps of England and Westeros are similar. Hadrian’s Wall = The Wall. Both kept the wild free folk out of the south.
There’s a few more like some of the battles, (I think), but I cannot recall right now.
Sckolar the old saying. Truth is stranger than fiction.
U Betta believe it!
"What's that? Yes, she stabbed herself......23 times. It really is sad."
Hahha, remind me of this gem: ua-cam.com/video/uFLMCu1RSNw/v-deo.html
"he was runnin' to get a bus and it fell into his arm ya know"
@@Biographics Hey, can you do a video on Bass Reeves next. He was a black cowboy and law man who caught over 3000 criminals through out his service. Some of the stories of his ordeals are like stuff from classic western movies. In fact there is popular belief that the Lone ranger is based on his adventures. It would be a really entertaining video.
"Yes, She did fall repeatedly onto the guards swords...it was an accident...i swear."
@@korvasterindar9672 I can confirm, I was the sword.
Just like Epstein committing suicide by two gunshots to the back of the head
That poor kid Sporus. Imagine walking down a street one day and getting kidnapped, castrated, and forced by a psycho to play his dead wife.
Classic
I can only fantasize every night as I try to fall asleep hoping it becomes a literal dream🥺😞🙏
@Run agree
@@dahnmason3243 breh
why is your name Anatolia
Nero *brutally murder someone and set them on fire in front of a crowd*
Also Nero: that's a weird suicide
Nero: “Who could have done this….”
lol
"why would the christians do this?"
Putin: write that down!
Hahahaha 😝
*BioGraphics:*
“Emperor Nero was actually beloved for a time by his people [and] he never actually fiddled as Rome burnt.”
*Me:* ‘I guess he wasn’t that bad after a-‘
*BioGraphics:*
“He instead fiddled a boy he had abducted and castrated because he resembled the wife he had previously kicked to death.”
*Me:* 😐
wider streets, though...
Pregnant wife, no less
Yeah... he wasn’t that bad, right...
The Brocialist Ikr
He played air guitar.
Honestly, Agrippina the younger’s story is more intriguing. The Mad autocrat is a tale as old as time but how a girl who was married off to a sleazy old man at 13 and excommunicated then climbed her way to the top is a story about someone with tremendous will, keen strategy and aptitude for treachery. I’d like to see that story told
She wasn't married at 13! She was the neice of Claudius and married him for political reasons when Nero was around 10! It was totally incestuous, but freely entered into by a scheming mature woman! And how was she excommunicated? Rome did not become Christian for another 300 years !!!
@@johnsaunders2109 metaphorically excommunicated, like exiled, persona non grata
@@blacklite911 but she was exiled by her brother, Caligula, for being part of a rebellion! She was nothing like you describe her!
I wouldn’t really say it was all that impressive. She was exiled by her brother for years and was only welcomed back to Rome because she was Emperor Claudius’s only relative left besides Nero. If the Praetorian Guard hadn’t killed Caligula and his daughter, Agrippina would have never returned to Rome.
Upon her return, she then seduced Emperor Claudius, a man who was commonly seen as weak and unmanly due to his stutter and limp. His own wife had cheated on him for years and Claudius wasn’t known to be desired by any. I doubt it was all that hard to seduce such an insecure and undesirable guy, especially when you’re his only close connection left to a family that he always craved respect from.
At the end of the day, just like Claudius, Agrippina was someone who got lucky enough to get exactly the right conditions for success.
That 'queen of England dancing naked in an amsterdam brothel' comparison is EXACTLY why I'm subscribed to this channel lol.
:)
Except that the line was stolen, and slightly reworked from a BBC historical documentary concern the life of Nero.
I too appreciate the mental image!
You have some weird fetishes bro
@@S.A.O.D.A Don't we all?
Nero, burning Rome since 64 and burning DVDs since 1997.
Worse than Batman n Robin😠
@@annescholey6546 He was talking about the Nero software
you had to XD
Now he just makes coffee...
Underrated comment
1:35 - Chapter 1 - Family ties
5:30 - Chapter 2 - Where the monster was nurtured
9:15 - Chapter 3 - The artistic emperor
12:15 - Mid roll ads
13:30 - Chapter 4 - Let the mother burn
17:10 - Chapter 5 - The horrors of love
20:30 - Chapter 6 - "What an artist dies in me"
Finally, some biographies about Ancient Rome!
I can't guite get my finger around it but I have a feeling you have a thing for ancient Rome.. 🤔
Julius Caesar 81 hi Caesar how are you
Hows the back feeling Julius?
Awe, true to Caesar.
Hey julius who was on you're life insurance beneficiary
“Emotionally unstable 16 year old...“ show me a 16 year old that isn’t emotionally unstable; the difference being they don’t get to rule an empire with everything that comes with it
I'm a Police Officer, at times I've pulled people over and told them to stop driving like a pissed off teenager.
Also, show me a Roman Emperor of any age without the emotional instability of a 16 year old.
@@luckyspurs Marcus Crassus and Julius Ceaser (the real bedrock of the start of Roman Empire from a republic) had the sharpest wits out of any men in all of human history. They were not mad nor were they deviated, they were completely ruthless in control of every aspect and were the two greatest minds of Roman dominance. Also were among the top 5 genuine battle warriors that Rome had, they were both near on the same level of Spartacas and Alexander the great, myth of Achilles in skill.
Trisarathops This has been repeated before and since.
@@johnfrancisdoe1563 so has this...
Imagine being so cruel and twisted with your tortures and executions that even the blood thirsty Romans thought it was too much. That's saying something when you really think about it 😲
Using innocent people as human garden torches and feeding them to beasts for entertainment...yeah I think Hitler, Stalin and Mao have at least a rival for "most evil man in history".
@@thunderbird1921 oh for sure but those guys came after Nero. Depravity and evil evolves with society unfortunately.
@@tuckemon I feel like Nero style brutality is almost more demented because it’s achieving no goal. It’s not worse by scale at all but it was just aimless human suffering for the pleasure of evil people.
Uhhh no the emperor's and the elite were cruel, that doesn't mean every roman was automatically cruel lol. Maybe to foreigners but there'd be no reason to act so cruel against your own people for so little
@@thunderbird1921 yeah, they aren't even close. Those three did their actions for a reason, to improve their peoples and countries. Nero was just a sadist. Why is this such a difficult concept for people to grasp
The real Game of Thrones, with less dragons but with a decent ending.
paco ramon sounds better
To be fair, Rome with dragons sounds pretty cool.
Pity Naomi Novik didn't do more than just a short story with it.
Et tu Paco?
You mean the tv show that wrote its own ending?
You mean a Magnificent Scotlands ice king Chad getting stabbed by Some weird ass little girl using a knife with his fellow cripple brother?. Yeah such a tragics ending for our Chad Icy king
“This long ass video” earned you an instant thumbs up
:D
@@Biographics :)
It is kinda short for this channel
Actually, a lot of people were pleased when Nero killed his mother, as they considered her a bad influence on him. She was widely hated for marrying Claudius, and rumors abounded that she even slept with Nero in order to control him.
Yeah she was a manipulator, and I wouldn't be surprised if her abuse of Nero is what fueled his cruel perversions. Like Ed Gein
You know how people felt back then? Damn. That's crazy....
@@Maleviah315 It's called being able to read
That is very true but the taboo was still there. So people were actually kind of hating them both.
Lol well he turned out much worse than she could’ve ever been
Soooo that’s why early 2000s CD burning software was called Nero. Mind blown.
Ooooohhh!!!!!
This is why I love the human race.
Wow, this took my childhood back when I was 7.
Nero burning ROM
omg
Go to sleep or watch a 25 minute video on Nero?
It’s not even a question.
Hahahaha!
Yeah... I really think sleep might be nice :)
@@kjn-s2336 With her you mean, or alone?
Lol
@@rhodesianwojak2095 "I'm talking penis and vagina!!" --- Not Another Teen Movie...
By the first ten minutes I was already overwhelmed by the murders, twists and turns. And Nero was only a teenager 😭
Nero is. Nut
Game of Thrones is so brutal.
Ancient Rome: Hold my beer
You mean hold my Olive branch
Wine
ChristIan Rome was only more brutal during the later part of the claudian dynasty (under Tiberius, Caligula, and the later part of Nero’s reign), during the year of the four emperors, and during the decline of the Western Roman Empire. Ancient Rome was actually better than Westeros the rest of the time
Lol
Rome Emperor : Exist
Praetorian Guard : *I find that offensive so that you must die*
This video was exceptional. Ancient Rome was fascinatingly bonkers. You did an amazing job squeezing the whole of Nero’s life into 25 minutes. Keep up these great videos. Cheers.
So... you are telling me that Nero wasn't a cute blonde anime girl?
Does he say umu though
No, that's Naruto.
What's up with the stupid anime girl. she is a freak compare to Nero.
And neither was he the son of a half demon half human ? With white hair and a (previously) demonic right arm ?
I'm beginning to think Nero wished he was.
"The queen of England dancing naked for money in an Amsterdam brothel." That has to be one of the funniest things I've heard a You Tuber say. He's comparing Nero being an artist to that level of outrage.
@Bobby KnucklesHitler didn't start the Nazi party. He took it over. But I see your point. Maybe sometimes dictators can be frustrated artists.
So many wrinkles...
Would you pay to have it with a 95 year old midget in a funny hat ?!?
@@johnsaunders2109 Well, yes.
@@johnsaunders2109 are you actually mocking the Queen of great britain scotland and northern island and head of the common wealth where her ancestor ruled the largest empire the world had ever seen ruling over 412 million people?!! And the most powerful empire the world had ever seen
"What an artist dies with me". Wow, goosebumps. Even fiction doesn't get much better than this.
Nero in the past: I kill without thought
Nero now: UmU
You just earned some time in Salt gacha jail
HASHIRE SORIYO KAZE NO YOU NI TSUGIMI HARA WO
AZPADORU !!
nero now: deadweight
In a way, Fate Nero is more accurate depiction of the historical Nero, if we ignore the genderswap and the lack of inclusion of the more unsavory acts he committed in her counterpart's background
Still waiting for Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Philosopher King.
I honestly think I would rather them just cover his meditations, Cliff's Notes style. Or even better, have Simon just read it out loud.
For Trajan and Hadrian also. So good that they were labeled as "good pagans" by the early Christians.
Strength and Honor
Yes i need to know about the philosopher king
@@mattm7798 Quod in Vita Fascimus in Aeternum Resonat.
Nero never fiddled while Rome burned, because the fiddle was not invented until 1500 AD.
Ancient Rome has CNN too I guess
The fiddle as we know it was yes, but the original form of the fiddle was created in the 11th century.
@@fhantasm fiddled sounds better than "lyred"
In fact he wasn't even there, he had an alibi.
He was 60km away and when he learned about the fire, he rushed back home to organize the fire-fighters and the relief-efforts...!
Are you calling Simon a lyre?
Nero: Kicks prego wife to death, castrates a boy that looks like her and sexually abuses him for years
Biographics: See, Nero isn't that bad :D
Not as bad as Tiberius and Caligula.
I was thinking the same, 🤦♂️
He was a just a misunderstood young man!
It's all relative! Nero was not as bad as his lunatic uncle, Caligula. And compared to a lunatic future emperor. Egalobarbus, who reigned I the 220s AD, he was almost a social democrat!
I have a theory that nero was suffering from like a severe mental illness and that he did love his wife but again severe mental illness so he did bad stuff idk like do you know those serial killers in stories who kills their s/o? yeah but ofc even if it is true his actions will never be justified and never should be too. I think he does a really good complex antagonist fictional character but unfortunately he was real lol
Roman senate: We need you to be serious Emperor, The empire is in trouble.
Nero: *censored* you I'm having too much fun and you're interrupting my art!
Nero: The first millenial
read the beginning "censor you" reminded me of mushu from mulan saying dishonor on you xD random but ur comment made my day
Agrippina had a great teacher, her tactics and way to power echoes Livia, Augsutus' wife. Being under her protection for most of her life until Livia's death, it's incredible to see how Agrippina managed to control the Roman political stage and bend it to her will, even succumbing later to death just like Livia, taking control from her son and eventually dying becasue of it.
''Have I neither friend nor foe?....'' so poetic and so crushingly lonely, I love it
His mother faced her execution like a true badass.
Nero: too late
she was prolly prepared to get assassinated after assassinating so many people herself, irony is sweet
By telling her killers to stab her in the puss?
@@StrangeTamer178the womb is the belly not the puss dimwit
@@sheslikeheroin93 I was just making a joke dbag. And token's life matters
"I didn't set Rome on fire and to prove it I will set these Christians on fire IN Rome!"
Bobby Knuckles the first Christians were.........
JEWS LOL !
@Bobby Knuckles Really?. Even in Ancient Rome they called Jesus as "A Jews who dead in the Cross" same for the Jews who call him a Usurper but instead he can make a religion out of it. Your thoughs is just a prespective nowdays Society depicted it from
Probably cos they started the fire.
NoRe christianity can be considered a sect of judean faith back in those days...greece is the main reason why christianity is considered a different religion...heck christians the way the world see them nowadays would of been sojourners, strangers, servants and refugees in ancient jewish societys....also as a heads up...the difference between hebrews and jewish peoples comes from a political struggle that happened during the time hebrews were conquering the land of the caaninites....jewish people come from the tribe of judah, one of 12 hebrew tribes, which split off and claimed a city that would become jerusalem while the other 11 founded isreal.
It was only after 350 AD that Christianity became a totally separate religion from Rabbinic Judaism.
Your ancient history videos are absolutely fantastic. I’m so glad I found this channel.
He's as biased as the day is long..
I don't know who does the writing, but I've noticed, no matter what our previous notion of the entity whose biography is being discussed, you guys have a way of writing it and Simon has his way of narrating it, that at the end, you got us thinking: _"Hey, the dude wasn't so bad after all. I mean, ge may have murdered 20 million innocent civilians, but he could have been any one of us."_
... You bastards! I want you guys to prepare my eulogy when I die :)
@Ron H That's what I like about this channel. Instead of leading you on with opinion-based descriptors, the facts of the matter are laid out in an entirely unbiased manner for us to mull over inernally. Its actual content instead of hand-holding.
@@vinny5638 im honestly surprised how honest and informative the videos are with how frequent they come out
This world is more twiztid than I thought
@GuildBankLooter I genuinely havent noticed such, and Im a staunch centrist. Has he made some error that indicates leftist bias?
I mean, it's kinda like that old Reddit (?) post with the still from one of Hitler's home videos made by Eva Braun where he's smiling and flirting with her, saying that he should be filming her.
It shows he was just as human as the rest of us, and that alone is more genuinely terrifying than anything made by horror writers of the day. Because as much as we want to tell ourselves that only the truly evil monsters would do the things he did, under the right circumstances, any of us could do great acts of evil.
_Nero: Rome's Neckbeard Emperor_
odd title.
Jeffrey Scott He has to make sure the m’ ladies didn’t ignore “nice guys” like him. I’m sure he couldn’t help that he was “big boned”.
A supreme gentleman until the end.
RIP in pepperoni
I wonder if trump plays the fiddle
Nero: The anti-Chad
Being an emperor is like singing a death warrant. Your premature demise becomes certain
Unless your name is Augustus.
Seneca was actually Nero's educator as a child and his advisor along with Burrus during his initial years of reign. The older Nero got, the less advice he took from them. That's why his rulership got worse and worse over time, especially after Burrus died and the old Seneca was left all alone with the cruel mind of a mad ruler.
It's literally like Mike Tyson and Cus D'Amato
Geez, it seems like Tiberius caused quite the echo in time by killing Caligula’s dad.
8:58 Cue the dramatic shot shot and EPIC ost. That was an INSANE plot twist, i imagine them being horrified by him doing the unthinkable in their culture, that also bring fear on what he might do next.
"You see how long this video is, yes you get to enjoy this long ass video." Best opening ever.
"Thank jupiter" smooth... I like it.
Hahaha
NO. Rome's craziest emperor (of the Claudians anyway) was indisputably Caligula. I think Simon has it absolutely right. Nero is what you get when you raise --- or rather, let your son grow up --- the way Agrippina Junior used her son as of puppet to achieve power for herself. Is anyone surprised that he had her murdered? I'm not.
Like mother, like son.
True. But I have to respectfully disagree with you. Nero captured (or ordered) a boy, chopped his private parts off, married him and fondled him. All because the boys face looked like his dead wife (whom he killed as well). That alone, deserves to have him placed as the worst Emperor that Rome has ever had (as far as an empire is concerned). Caligula on the other hand, was psychotic but most of his evilness came from his brain because he was most likely poisoned (which in turn most likely fried his brain). Nero didn’t have that, he was in full control of his actions. He chose his fate. Plus, he burned Christian’s as well.
"Did you know, some Roman Emperors killed their child relatives"
"Yeah, well Nero kicked his pregnant wife in the womb"
"Blimey"
The historian Tacitus (who hated Nero btw so no reason he would write good things about him), thought this was absolutely ridiculous and a baseless accusation, and there seem to have been rumours that Poppaea was poisoned.
holy moly
@שָׁחוֹר יֵשׁוּעַ alot of nero's history we have today was written 50-150 years after his death by the senatorial class who opposed him. And the different authors contradict themselves on many events. So take these wild perverse stories with a grain of salt and as attempts to stain his legacy. You have to remember he reigned for 14 years which is a very long time for an emperor who is considered one of the worst ever. Most bad emperors in Rome's history did not last this long in power
@שָׁחוֹר יֵשׁוּעַ but he might have not been as bad as they described
@שָׁחוֹר יֵשׁוּעַ yeah it's tough times out here
Sometimes history just feels like someone spilling ancient tea
I feel like aliens keep trying to reveal themselves to us but every time they show up they see ish like Nero and they’re like, “You know, they really don’t seem to be doing well. Maybe we’ll come back in 5,000 years.”
I like how you tell stories using just the facts and no biased opinions. Your re-tellings are always unbiased.
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@Tome13Eclipse Ya, after watching more of these I discovered slight biases every now and then
Unbiased? He called Christianity a "cult".
@@CaptainSebAviation Wouldn't Christianity have been a small sect of Judaism at the time? I don't think calling it a cult when referring to this time period is a bad thing.
@@epicm999 what a shining example of ignorance. You know nothing of history if you believe that
I think a video on Madame Toussaud could be really interesting. Everyone knows about her wax museums but her true life story was just so incredible. I would love to see what you guys could dig up on her. Also, this video was amazing, had been waiting for it for a long time. Great job!💜
Not sure if it is Biographics, but there is a good one on YT. An interesting woman, to be sure. Will try and find it.
I wrote my final essay on Nero in a history class in college, all had to be from memory, and I’m proud of how much I remember correctly 8 years later 🤩 still, of course, learned much new information as well! Thanks for your and your team’s work, Simon!
8:49 Nero "pulling an Epstein" before it was cool.
@Jay Camacho Shut up
Except Epstein didn’t kill himself
@@ninjaked1265 I was referring to 8:49, when Nero claimed Agrippina had committed suicide.
Wrong timestamp. Should’ve been when he tried to turn some boy who looked like his former wife into a woman.
Epstein did not kill himself. Do you really think it was only a ""coincidence" that BOTH surveillance cameras "malfunctioned" just before Epstein died, that his guards were not held accountable for failing to check on him, or that he was being held in America's most Jewish city, and one of its most corrupt, at the time of his death? When I heard where he was being held, I predicted he would either die in jail or escape to Israel. I really hate being correct so often when it comes to my political predictions. If only I were more fallible! You almost can't be too cynical when it comes to politics.
Please do Marshall Applewhite! He was the leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult who killed themselves to go live on a spaceship trailing a passing comet.
Ross Cherry Joseph seed wants to know your location....
He's my boy
Ross Cherry OH btw type in Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Documentary. It has tonnes of interviews and a fantastic telling of both the lives of Marshall and the female leader (can't remember her name)
Really recommend it. Pretty non biased reporting (as this channel normally is)
He was also the most infamous Nike testimonial
Too obscure
"Thank Jupiter" had me smashing the like button 😂😂😂
😂😂.
Jesus is the Son of God. Hope u believe in his death and resurrection and repent from sin. Luv ya♥️
@@balaportejean7015 :[
Simon.....neurosyphilis....it could explain why Nero had a good 5 years of stable thought at the beginning of his reign and then went insane. Thank you for the video. It was great!
Makes sense. Probably contracted from his many sexual exploits.
My exact thoughts.
Was neurosyphilis circulating in Rome at the time?
If he didn't really kill his wife like some commenters are saying, if the Christians he killed really did start the fire (Remember Rome crucified Jesus and they were being led by Rebellious Jews), and IF the boy wasn't really kidnapped, but rather dressed like a girl to get noticed by the emperor and consented, then he wasn't crazy, just perverted.
"Nero-syphilis"
I read that in ancient Latin they pronounced their v's as "w".
For instance, "Veni vidi vici" was actually pronounced "weeny widi weeky".
Of course, what his means is that Vindex may actually have been pronounced as...
... "windex".
Lol
EmperorJuliusCaesar my liege!
*weendex, but funny nonetheless.
Rikiki
EmperorJuliusCaesar Yes. In fact, the term “ Kaiser” comes from Caesar with a k: Keasar. Now I kind of want some Little Kaiser’s Pizza.
Simon: "Neto was deranged but..."
Me: But? There's a but? What could justify such madness?
Simon: "Trouble teenager"
Me: Eff that!
Imagine being Nero's shrink. "Allright,lad,let's talk about your mother today,shall we?"
You are immediately crucified
Or perhaps a session of art therapy instead.
Damn, now I wanna see Nero in a therapy session where Sigmund Freud is his shrink.
@@Puvwilmo00 that would be a good episode on interdimensional cable
“Now, tell me about Mother.”
“I’M NORMA BATES!”
🤪 🔪
You really need to do one on the female Egyptian Pharaoh Hapshepsut.
Maria Kelly any of the women from Ancient Egypt.
I agree!
@Devil RedHD
You're reaching, bro'.
Why?
Only when the Cheops are open😂
I can say, without question, Simon Whistler is one of the hardest working talents on UA-cam.
Sporus should have had the privilege of killing Nero.
History is full of savages and murderers it's unimaginable! We truly live in amazing time while I watch this on my phone of light..
watching the unfolding of some of the most powerful people to ever live on witchcraftian brick that spews out light and sound is truly bewildering. To think desensitization has led to something truly remarkable to be such a norm
Moments like these, unfortunately, don't tend to last very long.
not that amazing anymore...look around you :(
@R S Hardship and changes are part of life and we will come out better humans out of it I'm sure of it my people.
Corona virus:I don't think so
Bro, Rome why you stabbing all your rulers and getting away with. I’d be scared to be in any position of power in fear of being stabbed
As you should be, honestly.
"Do you want to become consul? "
"Hell nah, I don't want to get stabbed!"
"To bad. That was not a choice."
*stabs you*
"poisoned my stepbrother,
ordered men to kill my mother,
tried to drown her but she fled
So I had her stabbed instead'
-HH (Rome's Bad Emperors)
Simon, I'm convinced that your videos should be shown in all history classes. Brilliant this was!
Fun fact Joffrey is actually inspired by Nero.
It seems like Caligula, Nero, much like young celebrities who rose to fame share that similar stress disorder.
Yea thankfully most young celebrities don’t kill people unless you’re an NFL tight end from the university of Florida
A meaningless image for any non American !!!!
One of the best presentations of Nero's story that I have ever seen. The team that produced this worked very hard and I appreciate their efforts. I've read some of the old histories and can't fault this excellent video.
Also to be able to condense it.
So Nero maybe wasn't fiddling as Rome burned, but he was probably reciting poetry.
Simon I love that you're becoming more colorful and engaging with your narrations. It's great to see your channel moving forward and growing in such a great direction!
You should do a video on yourself some time so we can learn about you.
I guess today he would be convinced he was the greatest youtuber that ever lived .
Nero having a UA-cam channel is not something I want to imagine
Simon's not THAT bad . . . .
@@chadsknnr he meant Nero...
@@waringaw.m6350 thx for stepping all over my punchline, guy . . . .
"Since Augustus, Rome has had a series of Emperors; Criminal. Mad. Incompetent. Now...all three...
From a neat Sandman comic of the 90s.
Simon Whistler saying "get your ass whipped" kinda just made my day.
I've been waiting for this one since the Caligula video. The wait was well worth it!
"The wait ...
... It was well worth it."
Well worth it the wait is
I remember when watching a 25 min video without ads was common and not something to be "wowed" by
Nero throughout history
69-2010 CE: Evil tyrant
2010 CE-present: Waifu
Kaze no yo ni
That's how he will be remembered. From a man playing a harp while watching Rome burn to a Saber clone
You made a mistake, throughout all history he is viewed as a waifu
2008 CE-present: A smart-mouthed devil hunter with a mechanical right arm and Devil Trigger mode
Musashi Miyamoto
Feudal Japan: Manly Swordsman
Now: Waifu
A rather simple crack to spot in the “fiddled as Rome burned” tale is that the fiddle was not invented until the early seventeenth century.
If you ever think you have it bad just remember Sporus... my God what a life
Long ass video ...LOL. I'm a big fan Simon and now i'm hooked on watching all your videos and history. Keep up the good work.
So so long :). Thank you.
But boy did Nero love the theatre and dedicated to that old fashioned mum murdering! Keeping up with the Julio--Claudians should be a series =D
Perhaps named after the a man who witnessed all of the Julio-Claudian shenanigans. Maybe Emperor Claudius?
@jmchez - I wouldn't mind a drunk history version of I, Claudius and Claudius, the god (obviously a version more less fantastical than the drama).
@EbberDeeMills - Oh man, that would be their BEST SEASON yet.
Check out I Claudius. Great series about the family.
Nero's favourite word was "UMU"
Poor Sporus was later forced to play Poppea again, as the "wife" of the Emperor Otho, who had been the real Poppea's first husband.
What a terrible life
poor kid i really genuinely feel sorry for the boy
He was only 13😭
😞😞😞😞😞
Those emperors are gonna ROT in hell
and I will be laughing at them , not out of hate but because of joy seeing their pain and torture
So he was like an extreme version of Marie Antoinette, thrust into unwanted power in adolescence, when a person doesn't even know who they are, let alone what the world is.
Audrey Muzingo yeah but at least Marie Antoinette wasn't completely insane lol
@@anthonyfox585 And actually competent
ShinigamiInuyasha777 oh well hey there fellow inuyasha fan lol
@@anthonyfox585 Hello
The tortures he did was severely inhumane
I love your videos (:
But you skipped over his obsessed relationship with the slave girl acte. They were in a secret relationship for about 3-4 years. Seneca helped him with this. Acte came before Sabina. She helped give him a proper funeral after his suicide.
I've always enjoyed History more than any other subject but Simon has really opened my eyes to things I've missed or just glossed over. I really enjoy his videos, love his energy.
I would still like to see some of his outtakes.
Are you sure these stories weren’t just the Roman version of a soap opera or reality tv, because that’s a 100% the vibe in gettin
I’m afraid not. If only they were fiction. If only humanity wasn’t as depraved as history portrays them to be. But alas, they are.
I think Sporus must be an interesting character. To go from a young boy to being dressed as the empress, or being the empress, for that old Nero. Damn...
I mean he literally got Empress.
But that whole ordeal, his whole life... He paid to much for that.
20:34
Vindex had a twin brother who had a fantastic talent of cleaning glass surfaces. His name was Windex.
Indeed.
Life's interesting little details indeed
UberMikeSocal Slayer has a twin brother rapper Playa
Nero should have sent the pair off to Germany just to add to the confusion.
Another who liked to organize phone numbers: index
I have fallen in love with this channel.
Reminds me Nero CD Burning software. Nero burns your CDs while you fiddle.
Duke of Bootleg!
Now, THIS is some damn good writing along with matching caliber narrating!
Thanks :)
20:56 is the funniest part of this video because imagine being Galba and hearing that news lmaooo
As much as I love Roman history and these videos about Ancient Rome are amazing. But I would love even more any videos on the Ancient Egyptian rulers
Good point!
Good idea though how many actual facts are known is debatable.
Robert Burkhart that's hard to say, Egyptians took deification of their rulers more seriously than any other civilization I know of, so writing something unflattering about a ruler was a potential death sentence and it also seems that Egyptians as a whole were mostly illiterate other than privileged upper class citizens who wouldn't have much reason to criticize the king anyways and if ever a king was hated and/or seen as a disgrace such as Akhenaten than the last thing that they would do is write about him because they believed that a person'sname was magic and that to speak of that person would give them power, they thought that the best thing to do in that situation was to destroy any trace of that person and to forget about them as this was seen as the ultimate damnation, that their soul would cease to exist
Poor Sporus, truly the unluckiest man of all time.
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority.”
Becoming emperor was the worst thing that could have happened for him and his victims.
Most historians state that Nero bad reputation is extremely exaggerated since the only sources we have of his rule comes from those who overthrew him so of course they're going to tarnish his name as a way to justify overthrowing him. Its like when you like a girl but she's in a bad relationship but doesn't want breakup so you tell her that he probably cheating, he don't love you, he using you, hes banging you're best friend, ect.
*Yeah, and you can definetly say that Claudius had it coming to him.*
*_Morale of the story: never let others abuse your kindness, because if you do, then they most certaintly will._*
Such was life for Uncle Claudius
Behold my talent and listen to the thunderous applause! Then praise me! Praise my Golden Theater! Laus St. Claudius!
UMU!
Artist Nero certainly loved getting red paint on his hands.
i cant get enough of Biographics. Thanks for keeping us entertained whilst being educated
That Agrippina certainly had an, ahem, interesting life!