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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;philologus_1, post: 25482983, member: 92212&quot;]Here is a Nero issue with his unmistakable portrait, struck in Rome the very next year after the fire, with the reverse showing Nero (as Apollo Citharoedus) holding/playing... not a violin/&quot;fiddle&quot; (which was not invented until an approximate 1400 years later)... but a different stringed instrument that Nero was known to have played -- a type of lyre called a Kithara.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1631244[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1631250[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a close-up of the reverse&#039;s portrayal of Nero as Apollo playing a lyre:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1631243[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course there is no proof that Nero played ANY musical instrument at all during the actual fire.&nbsp; However, the widely known adage that &quot;Nero fiddled while Rome burned&quot; has persisted for many years, and has become a <u><i>legendary</i></u> attachment to many people&#039;s knowledge of that big fire during his reign.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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