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Message:: [QUOTE="Drusus, post: 425871, member: 6370"]I dont think there could never be a definitive answer as to whether he did that or not. Fires were common in Rome as one could imagine...he may have just taken the opportunity to annex the burned areas for his Golden House. Like Caligula, I DO believe he deserves his place amongst the truly bad emperors. I dont believe that Caligula did a lot of the things attributed to him, he was much maligned as was Nero. I think they took already poor performance by spoil princeps and added some gory bits and perversions they could not have known were true or false. While I think recording History in early Roman Imperial times were the best of their time when it comes to reporting facts (who fought whom and such basic info), I also think many often reported every rumor, every bit of here-say, and often expressed their strong bias. Much like today....but much worse in that there are some that modern historians have simply written off as a reliable source with any real value as history. One must always remember that the Julio-Claudians were not only the first imperial family, but they were the final death blow of the Republic...something much loved by many who were writing at the time.[/QUOTE]