Did Emperor Nero really play the fiddle while Rome burned?
Writings from around 64AD inform us that Nero was a passionate lover of music and gifted on the cithara, a stringed instrument like a lyre, but there was no way he was playing a fiddle. It hadn’t been invented yet…
But if your a music history buff or you like interesting stories, read on here:
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/did-emperor-nero-fiddle-while-rome-burned-true/