This may or may not be relevant, but Nero really doesn't deserve the reputation he has as the worst emperor ever or what have you. Being sadistic and cruel was par for the course for Roman emperors, the ones that are celebrated as great gained their fame by being that much more violent and brutal than their rivals. Nero's real crime was attempting to rule as a populist and pissing off the established elites, who by virtue of being the literate class went out of their way to slander him in the history books, including making up that whole fiddling while Rome burned story from nothing.