The Year of the Four Emperors followed this emperor's death, and he was probably aware of the plot to poison his predecessor, Claudius.
This person allegedly used burning corpses as lamps for a nighttime garden party. This leader had the architects Severus and Celer build an extravagant palace called the Golden House. The general Corbulo fell on his sword on the orders of this man, who once had a collapsible boat built in an effort to kill his mother. Revelation of the Pisonian conspiracy against this emperor prompted his (*) tutor, Seneca, to commit suicide. The Year of the Four Emperors followed this emperor's death, and he was probably aware of the plot to poison his predecessor, Claudius. For 10 points, name this emperor who blamed Rome's Christians for a fire during which he apocryphally "fiddled."
This person allegedly used burning corpses as lamps for a nighttime garden party.
Nero [or Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus] &lt;JB History&gt;