Today
in Western Civilization we did some review on our test for Friday and watched a
little bit of the movie about Nero (Yay!). Mr. Schick did our Moment of Zen (I
would like to mention, if everything we know is wrong, then wouldn’t that mean
that the knowledge of knowing that everything is wrong is wrong?) and we
proceeded with class. Mr. Schick then called random questions from his test and
gave us a general idea of what some of the questions are about. Normally we
would have the review day on the day before the test, however we don’t have
class tomorrow so I get an extra day to study for the test. After Mr. Schick
exhausted his stack of questions for the test, we watched the beginning of the
video. The beginning immediately goes into Rome burning, while super
stressed-out Nero tries to do what he can (not much) to help the people. After
the city burns, Nero’s advisor tells him to rule like the gods would, and Nero
begins his quest towards bankruptcy. Rome is being put back together in a more
beautiful form, and Nero is extremely OCD about it. Nero continues on with the
building of Rome and loots the temples of their money and treasures in order to
pay for Rome’s reconstruction. Nero shows multiple signs of insanity and bursts
of hatred throughout, and it doesn’t help when he has total control over Rome.
His own Senators plot to kill him, however their plot is revealed by one of the
slaves of a conspirator. Multiple of the Senators are killed and tortured in
the process (Through the usage of salt in the eye), and the Senator that gets
the salt begins spouting names of all the Senators in on the plot (possibly
some that aren’t, just so he can keep his eye) and those Senators are
immediately murdered discretely. At this point Nero decides he’s going to
perform a tragedy onstage for his Senators, and all the Senators can do is
applaud. Ironically enough, I didn’t think he was that bad, with the exception
of him dropping his sword in the middle of his speech.
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