Nero reigned during the great fire of Rome.
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Emperor Nero himself sought to rebuild the Capital.
Nero was eccentric and extravagant, but was not mentally ill. There were allegations that he deliberately set fire to Rome in the Great Fire of 64. However, Tacitus said that he was not even in Rome when the fire broke out. This allegation was slander by writers who despised him. Nero, instead, was loved by the poor because he pursued policies to help them.
The worst sting that happened in Rome was the sacking of the city. Rome was sacked four times: in 390 BC by the Gauls, in 410 by the Visigoths, in 455 by the Vandals, and in 456 by the Ostrogoths. Much of Rome was burnt in the Great Fire of 64.
It is a comment made about the emperor Nero during the great fire of Rome. Nero, in his frustration at not being able to have the fire stopped, did trivial and frivolous things while waiting for the gloomy reports. A historian used the term "fiddled while Rome burnt", not in the sense that Nero played the violin (which was unknown at the time), but in the sense that he did meaningless things while waiting--he fiddled around. It is reported that he strummed his lyre and composed a poem about the burning of Troy for want of anything practical to do.