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More like forcibly feminized a young slave that resembled his late wife, whom he had beaten to death. I wouldn't exactly hold him up as an ally.
Holy shit, that took a turn.
Most shit with Nero was pretty gnarly if I remember correctly, he was the person most scholars of that period agree the Antichrist in revelation is supposed to be, that in particular may have primarily been because he implemented taxes on religious organizations though… again it’s been a while since I studied either but I do remember Nero being fucked up even by the standards of Roman emperors
A lot of the trash talk about him was made up by Christian historians, I'm pretty sure the "beating his pregnant wife to death" is confirmed, or at the very least heavily debated, to be one of the made up bullshit. And yes, it's generally believed that he is the "beast" from Revelation butt again that's because of the early Christian hate. It's probably because he accused the early Christian sect of causing the fire of Rome (which we're still not sure they didn't), and the whole "throwing them to lions" thing, and they fought back by spreading shit about him.
Marrying a castrated slave lover is legit though, and IINM I think Nero was the one dressed as the bride.
Yeah I’m not trying to say that the early Christian’s were being 100% forthright about it, and like I said I’m way rusty so maybe I shouldn’t of said anything, but considering what we can say we know about him in terms of deeds, makes him at minimum a big piece of shit, I’m inclined to believe he might have done some fucked up shit to others given his power as an emperor and how that usually works in history.