Never since the invasion by the Gauls under Brennus had Rome beheld such disaster.Continuing Nero's Rome Burns,with a selection from Quo Vadis by
Terror As Nero’s Rome Burns
The destruction seemed as irresistible, perfect, and pitiless as Predestination itself.Continuing Nero's Rome Burns,with a selection from Quo
Christians During Nero’s Rome Burns
From the heights on which Rome was founded the flames flowed like waves of the sea into the valleys densely occupied by houses.Continuing Nero's
Streets Blocked As Nero’s Rome Burns
The roads were blocked by piles of goods, borne from the fire previously, boxes, barrels of provisions, furniture the most costly, vessels, infants'
Slaves Escape While Nero’s Rome Burns
Men of this wild and unrestrained crowd -- Asiatics, Africans, Greeks, Thracians, Germans, Britons -- howling in every language of the earth, raged,
Nero’s Rome Burns
This series has nine easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: The Fire Begins.IntroductionThe dynasty which began so gloriously under
Aftermath of the Sack of Rome
Today's installment concludes Visigoths Sack Rome,our selection from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Visigoths Leave Rome
Yet even the possession of Sicily he considered only as an intermediate step to the important expedition which he already meditated against the
Other Sacks of Rome Compared
But it was not easy to compute the multitudes who, from an honorable station and a prosperous fortune, were suddenly reduced to the miserable