Nero distinguished himself from the Roman emperors not due to the fact that he organized the gladiators' games - it did many before and after him. He was peculiar due to the fact that he identified with gladiators and their ethos. His predecessors held an aristocratic distance to this entertainment. Nero went a step further and found his followers. Many politicians after him identified themselves with combat sports. At the same time, the competition itself was a pretext for them - it was about turning the martial ritual into a ritual of collective identity.
One of these Nero followers is present American Secretary of defence (i.e. war) Pete Hegseth. It is not by chance that he calls for the return of "the warrior's ethos" in the American military and civilian life [1].
The very smooth transition from Colosseum to Nero seems a small risky, since the Colosseum has only begun to build after death Nero [2]. The claim that Nero was "exceptional due to the fact that he identified with gladiators and their ethos" is an unintelligible fantasy. After all, it is not essential to survey ancient past to know that Neron's ambitions were going in a completely different direction. At 1 time, all student who read it knew it. Quo vadis and reached the point - a dramatic description of Nero's death; having good support in sources (Svetonius and Cassius Dion): Nero yet realized the time of death was coming. [...] His teeth were horrified, and yet his comedic soul found any charm in the threat of the moment. To be an all-powerful master of the earth and lose everything seemed to him the tallness of tragedy. And the faithful played the first part in it to the end. He was overcame by a fever quote and a passionate desire for those present to remember it for posterity. [...] With a trembling voice and an acting voice, he stated that the minute had not yet arrived, and he began to quote it again. Finally, he asked to be burned. "How the artist dies" he repeated with astonishment [3]. Of course, there is an even earlier celebrated scene with Nero, who plays lyre during the fire of Rome; besides certified in sources (at least as black PR of the era) [4]. In any case, it should be adequate for a elder to remember that Nero did not identify with any gladiator ethos, but with the artist's ethos. As Tacit says: His erstwhile passion was to stand on a quadrifth alternatively than a little disgusting inclination - to sing with lute accompaniment, as phase actors do. [...] However, in order to become acquainted not only with acting art, the emperor besides tried to devote himself to poesy and drew people to himself, who had certain yet fewer outstanding poetic abilities. These, after the feast, held meetings with him and joined together the poems that Nero had brought to them or improvised there, supplementing his own words as small as spoken. Years14 and 16) [5]. And all of this can no longer be connected to Donald Trump, who is not known yet to effort to compose poems or to play guitar. With artists, he has a beef.Yes, Nero did not dare to break up with the gladiator's tradition and possibly even liked it, but not necessarily bloody, due to the fact that Swetonius noted (this must have been something different for the Romans) that:
During the gladiator supplies he released in a wooden amphitheater, built in little than a year in the vicinity of Mars Field, He wouldn't let anyone get killed, not even among the convicts. (Lives of Caesars, Rev. VI, 12; my distinction). However, they say that he liked horses much more than gladiators, and as an artist with ambition he liked to pretend to be a cultural Greek even more. He established erstwhile all 5 years a competition - the first of all in Rome the Greek customized - of a threefold kind: musical, gymnast, hippical, which he called Neronic (Lives of Caesars, pp. VI, 12). It was in those games where there was no trace of gladiators that he participated. Awarded for his triumph with respective crowns, he wanted more and more of them, so although he avoided long journeys, he yet went to Greece to execute in music competitions. The wise Greeks eagerly took advantage of the occasion, the crowns nearly buried it, and flattered its vanity to specified an degree that the moved gave the full state freedom.There's a certain resemblance to Donald Trump's character, who, who knows, might never have started a brawl with Iran if they had been clever before. However, the Swedes gave him this peace Nobel.
The common is besides the opinion of the moral scandalists. However, the problem is that while Trump sinned alternatively conservatively and, so to speak, "by God", Nero was definitely queer personality.
And so much so that all the news that delights present or worse the audience, he tried personally almost 2 1000 years ago!
He pioneered the alleged sex correction surgery and, of course, did not head the alleged transgender people.
The Sporus boy, after cutting his testicles, tried to turn him into a woman. He brought to himself with a dowry and a purple veil, celebrating the ceremony of the wedding. He lived with him like a wife (Lives of Caesars, pp. VI, 28). With the same tolerance, he dealt with the issues of single-sex relationships, fluid sex identity and BDSM practices and the introduction of transspeciese elements. He was bi-, homo-, poly-, pan-, and whatever else the soul desires, long before all these prefixes were invented and added to human sexuality. He bought his body so generously that he not only stained with fornication almost all its parts, but besides invented a fresh kind of fun. Here a chaotic animal dressed in the skin fell out of the cage and threw himself at the sex organs of men and women tied to the pole. And erstwhile he satisfied his cruel desire, he gave himself to the liberation of Dorigoros. Moreover, as he had married Sporus before, he now became the wife of Doriphoros, imitating the cries and groans of the raped virgins. From any people I learned that he was profoundly convinced, "as if all man lived sexually with another men, and that all part of the body can be a tool of pleasure, but that most of the people hide with this sleazy practice and cunningly cover it" (Lives of Caesars, pp. VI, 29). No substance what Donald Trump says, they're not his favourite games and ideas. As for Nero, this forgotten patron of the LGBTQIAP+ movement, this loving old Roman virtue was not associated with the ethos of a warrior. On the contrary, they mostly accused him of being effeminate, like conservatives.I have no thought where he came from in "Politics" this Nero as a warrior model for the American administration. possibly it was meant to be a Kommodus, but Gladiator mixed with the erudites there. Quo vadis. possibly something was prescribed by any abroad erudites. [6]. They may have confused Nero with his grandfather, Domicius, who was truly fascinated by the bloody gladiator fights [7]. Or possibly the mention of Nero, a well - known Christian persecutor, was to be a cultural attachment to president Trump's very peculiar religiousness.
"Formerly - it was Boy's poem - people had little culture, but they were honester". Thus, the ethos of a warrior in the American army and the American taste for a varied covering of the mouth, then called "free American", were written plainly, without frosting this ancient history.
The American soldier is popularly called "G.I." (read ji aj) [...]. "G.I." - is simply a soldier who, in various parts of the world, guards the interests of American dollar magnates, sucking vital juices out of the economy of all capitalist countries. "G. I." is simply a symbol of the preparations for American imperialism against the countries of the peace camp.[...]
A completely disgusting view is presented by a peculiarly American variant of French combat "free American". Participants in this fight are allowed to usage all kinds of tricks, choice out eyes, bite, break fingers, rip hair [8. From which it is clear - which I place for the future under consideration of the confused erudites of "Politics" - that no Nero is needed to express sincere opinions about America.
[1] Łukasz Wójcik, America in the octagon"Politics" No. 27, July 1, 2026. p. 11. This is not the first better article, tiny and hidden somewhere in the corner, but four-columned and announced in the section "The subject of the week".
[2] any readers Quo vadis It fails to remember, and it seems to them that in this book they read not only about the bloodthirsty Nero, but besides about the Colosseum on which the arena falls "a monstrous Germanic turn, carrying a bare female body on their head," etc. etc. Meanwhile, Quo vadis Of course, there is no Colosseum, and Sienkiewicz even reminds twice about its non-existence. First describing Rome's fire:
"Those who protected themselves to markets and squares, in the place where the Flavian Amphitheater later stood, close the temple of the Earth, close the portico of Livia and above by the temples of Junona and Lucyna, and between Clivus Vibrius and the old gate of Esquilinska, surrounded by a sea of fire, died from heat" (Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo vadis. A Nero novel, Volume III, Gebethner and Wolff, Warsaw 1896, p. 5; my distinction).
And then again:
"Before the Flavius built the Colosseum, the amphitheater in Rome was mostly built from a tree, it all almost burned during the fire. Nero, however, for the intent of carrying out the promised games, ordered to erect several, and among them 1 giant, upon whom, immediately after the extinguishing of the fire, began to bring distant the sea and Tiber the mighty trunks of trees cut down on the slopes of Atlas" (III, p. 135; my honour).
[3]Quo vadis, Volume III, pp. 342-343.
This, in turn, is the case with Swetonius (Lives of Caesars, Rev. VI, 49; here and further quote Janina Niemirska-Pliszczyńska:
"When all the comrades, 1 by one, insisted that as shortly as possible he should escape the insults which inevitably endanger him, he ordered that in his presence he dig a pit of dimensions specified as his body, besides gather where they would be, the remains of marble, simultaneously bring water and wood to take care of the corpse. He cried on all command and kept saying, «What kind of artist dies!» (Qualis artifex pereo!).
And so in a preserved summary, epitome, this place with Roman History Cassius Dion (pp. LXIII, 29, 2):
"When [Neron] noticed that they were approaching [the riders sent for him], he ordered his companions to kill him. And erstwhile they refused, he groaned that he had neither a friend nor an enemy. Since the riders were close, he took his own life, saying these frequently quoted words: O Zeus, what an artist dies in me! (O Zeus, hoios technites parapollymai)".
[4] "The people pointed to him with their hands, covered in bloody glow. In the distance, the hesitating snakes of the flames and burning eternal, the most sacred monuments [...] burned the past and the soul of Rome, and he, Caesar, stood with a lute in his hand, with the face of a tragic actor, and with a view not to his dying country, but to the attitude and pathetic words that the best size of defeat could give, awaken the top admiration and the hottest to gain applause" (Quo vadis, Volume III, p. 30).
However, Tacit reports that it was only a rumor, due to the fact that during the fire, Nero played in Ancium, and then did a lot to alleviate its effects and aid people.
"These treatments, although popular, missed the goal, due to the fact that a rumor spread that just as the city was in flames, he entered the phase of home theatre and celebrated the demolition of Troy, comparing the present misfortune with the disasters of the past (Years, Rev. XV, 39; here and there I quote the translation of Seweryn Hammer).
Swetonius, on the another hand, treats Nero’s artistic performances as a fact:
"Nero looking at this fire from the tower of the patron and enjoying, as he said, «the beauty of the flame», sang: Winning Ilion in his acting outfit" (Lives of Caesars, pp. VI, 38)
Similarly, Cassius Dion:
"While the population was in despair, and many were thrown into flames, Nero entered the roof of the palace, from where the full fire was best seen, and wearing a kitharist's outfit (This skeuen this kitharodiken labonHe sang the conquest, as he said - Troy, but as seen - Rome (Roman History, epitome of Fr LXII, 18, 1).
[5] He besides writes about Nero, possibly behind Tacitus, Eutropius:
"Finally, he disgraced himself with an act so unholy that he danced and sang on phase in a kitarian outfit or a tragic poet" (Brewarium since the foundation of the City, 7, 14).
In fact, this must have been a very shameful act, since the execution of Nero’s brother, wife, and parent is only second.
[6] Practice in "Politics" is not so uncommon again. Who would like to know more about it, delight read: "How to plagiarism in 'Politics' or warm contact with a simple reader".
[7] Swetonius writes:
"He arranged [Domicius] to fight chaotic animals in the circus and in all the districts of the capital, besides supplies of gladiators, but so cruel that August had to draw his attention to him first in private, and erstwhile it did not help, he forbade him with their public proclamation" (Lives of Caesars, pp. VI, 4).
[8] B[orys] Karpowicz, U.S. Army. American Imperialism Tool, translated from Russian E[ugeniusz] Kusko, Ministry of Defence Publishing House, Warsaw 1953, pp. 5 and 113. The title is given for the title page. The cover of the subtitle reads A Tool of American Imperialism.
