Emperor Nero: Changed Rome and History

The tyrant, dictator, emperor we know today as Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus, wasn't always a tyrant. Nero was a kind of enigma, because of being described by contrasting characteristics. He was said to be artistic, brutal, sensual, erratic, weak, sadistic, extavagant, and later in life deranged. He most certaintly was, by all defintion, a tyrant in his later years as the Emperor of Rome, and caused many deaths in his years alive. Nonetheless, his reign wasn't always marked by blood, and his name wasn't always a burn scar in Roman history. In the beginning he was a relatively good man, but once let loose of punishment and constraint, he turned into the man history knows him today. Nero had changed the course of history, for years to come, and would start an era that left hundereds of people burned, and soon revered.