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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 4529498, member: 101855&quot;][ATTACH=full]1121891[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1121892[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I guess I am in the minority, but I’m not that upset with the fact that Nero did in his mother. That old woman was rotten and evil has hell.</p><p><br /></p><p>She more than likely killed her husband, Claudius, with poison mushrooms so that she could put her son, Nero, on the throne. She did it more to be “the power behind the throne” not because she had ambitions for her son, but for herself. When he didn’t fully cooperate, she was ready to push him aside. As I wrote in my Roman emperors “bullet book” which I use to learn the history, for her &quot;what comes around goes around.&quot; Given more time, she might have poisoned him too.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for Nero, I think that he was a person who was in the wrong place, similar to the much-criticized U.S. president, Warren G. Harding. Nero wanted to be an entertainer, not an emperor. His poetry probably was not any good, and he was probably a so-so musician. He probably got the attention of audiences because he was emperor. But maybe he had some talent.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for Harding, he realized he was in the wrong place soon after he took office. He once said that he wished that was a book he could read that would give the answers to complex economic problems. As for race relations, he had the guts to tell an Alabama audience, during the Jim Crow period, that he was looking forward to the time when Whites and African-Americans could treat each other with respect. Whatever his many shortcomings were, that took guts. He also appointed strong secretaries of state and the treasury.</p><p><br /></p><p>As he put it, his problems were with his “God damned friends.” He could deal with his enemies, but those were supposed to be on his side took advantage of the situation and took bribes. Harding would have been much happier if he could have spent his last years in the Senate or in retirement. He was, after all, a good drinking buddy who enjoyed a good night of cards with the boys. Nero was probably a good drinking buddy and party animal too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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