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"What an designer dies beside me!" (Attributed to Nero just before his suicide) A lot of ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Old World series, listeners can get caught up to rate on the lives of antiquity's most significant men and women in the time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long neglected or never known. Through the entire annals of history, there were few figures as reviled as Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, better known as Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, or more simply, Nero. Even today, he remains one of the Roman Empire's most well-known - or notorious - figures, a villain whose effect on popular culture is so great that his name plants up consistently, to this day, in literature, film, Television set, and mediums as improbable as video gaming and anime. Nero ranks among the very worst of the caesars, alongside the likes of mad Caligula, slothful Commodus, and paranoid Domitian. He's a physique so hated that in many traditional Christian traditions, he is practically - without hyperbole - considered the Antichrist; according to a significant Biblical scholar, the coming of the beast and the number 666 in the book of Revelation are sources to Nero. He was the man who famously "fiddled while Rome burned up". Nero was an inveterate lecher, a murderous tyrant who confirmed little compunction in murdering his mother, and he liked to work with Christian martyrs as resources of illumination by using up them alive at night. His economic plans, according to numerous historians, nearly bankrupted Rome.
