For 10 points, what religious minority of Rome was legendarily blamed for causing the Great Fire by Nero?
These non-mythical people were frequently said to practice "Thyestean banquets". A story about these people, the "Forty Wrestlers", describes a group of them that ends up on a frozen lake. One of these people seems to be looking at a donkey-headed figure in the crudely drawn Alexamenos graffito. Eusebius wrote that these people enjoyed a forty-year "little peace" during the reign of (*) Gallienus. Edward Gibbon was widely attacked for arguing that these people were indirectly responsible for the title event in his most famous history. A massive persecution of these people began during the reign of Diocletian and was formally ended with the Edict of Milan signed by Constantine. For 10 points, what religious minority of Rome was legendarily blamed for causing the Great Fire by Nero?
These non-mythical people were frequently said to practice "Thyestean banquets".
Christians in Rome [prompt on martyrs] &lt;Cheyne&gt;