What were nero’s weaknesses

Nero’s main weaknesses were his vanity and his megalomania. Hefancied himself as an actor and held very long plays where the spectators gotbored. He built a massive house, the Domus Aurea (Golden House) which wascomplex which was like a mini city and had massive gardens and a lake. Anotherweakness was that he made himself unpopular with the aristocracy, the wealthyand the military, even though he was very popular with the lower classes.It was alleged that the fire of 64 AD was caused by emperor Nero wantedto burn down Rome to make room to build his massive palace by writers who werehostile to him. There is not any actual proof that he did this. Fires in Romewere very common as it was an overcrowded city and timber was used to buildhouses, which were packed in alleys. There were other large fired in 69 and 80AD. Tacitus, a historian who lived during this period and the only one who gavedetails of the fire, did not suggest that Nero was an arsonist. He also saidthat Nero made great efforts to help the people affected by the fire. He spentdays searching for survivors without bodyguards, opened his palaces to host thehomeless and bought food supplies with his money. He then made an urban planwith houses built with brick, on wider roads and faced by porticoes. Anothercontemporary historian mentions the fire only in passing and three othercontemporary writers did not mention it in their surviving work.Suetonius, who was not even born at the time of the fire, andCassius Dio, who lived about 100 years after the episode, alleged that Nero setRome alight. According to one legend Nero played the fiddle during the fire.However, the fiddle did not exist in Nero’s time.