The Great Fire of Rome
History Daily18 Jul 2025

The Great Fire of Rome

July 18, 64 AD. When the Great Fire of Rome reduces two-thirds of the city to ashes, Emperor Nero uses the catastrophe as an excuse to persecute a new religious group, the Christians. This episode originally aired in 2022.


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