Burning Of Rome

         The Burning Of Rome       

On the night of July 19, 64 A.D. a fire emerged among the shops lining the Circus Maximus, Romes mammoth chariot stadium. Two million of its residents were used to the heat kindling up conflagrations on the daily. But this wasn't no ordinary fire it burned for six days before it was under control! It became reignited and burned for another three days. When the smoke cleared ten out of the fourteen districts were in ruin. One of the most remarkable parts of Romes history the 800 year old Temple of Jupiter Stator and the Atrium Vestae, the Hearth of the Vestal Virgins, were gone. Two thirds of Rome was lost in that fire. Most of the information about the great fire of Rome come from Aristocrat and Historian Tacitus. History blamed Nero for this fire because he wanted to rebuild Rome to his liking's. People even say that "Nero was watching the fire burn while merrily playing his fiddle."