Although best known for his debaucheries, political murders and persecution of Christians, popular legend holds that Emperor Nero fiddled while the city burned.
It ain’t necessarily so.
First: The fiddle did not even exist at the time. Instead, Nero was well known for his talent on the lyre.
Second: Nero was actually 35 miles away in Antium when the fire broke out. In fact, he let his palace be used as a shelter.
Modern theory holds that Nero actually sang while Rome burned, but that his freakishly thin vocal chords sounded like the yet to be invented violin.
(Yawn) Sorry, it’s a slow news day!