Nero in popular culture

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus and his reign have been used in music, literature, the arts, and even in business

As portrayed by Alberto Sordi in Nero's Weekend (1956)

Anime/Comics/Video Games/Visual Novels/Books

The Adventures of Nero: The title character Nero is named after Nero. In his first debut appearance the character believes himself to be the Roman emperor after drinking poisoned beer. Later he regains his sanity, but all characters kept referring to him as Nero from that moment onwards. ^[1] In the album De Rode Keizer (The Red Emperor, 1952) Nero travels back in time to Ancient Rome and actually meets the real emperor Nero.
The Phantom: Nero is said to have been the original owner of The Phantom's "skull ring" ^[2]
The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle - Nero serves as the adoptive father of demigod Meg McCaffrey.
Fate/Extra, Fate/Extella and Fate/Grand Order: A female version of Nero serves as a playable character that the players avatar can interact with.
Ryse: Son of Rome: You save and protect him at the start of the game and kill him at the end.

Statue of Nero by Claudio Valenti, Anzio, Italy (2010)

Salvador Dalí's "Dematerialization Near the Nose of Nero" (1949)
Henryk Siemiradzki's "A Christian Dirce" (1897)
- "Nero's Torches" depicts Christians being martyred on Nero's orders (1876)
John William Waterhouse's "The Remorse of Nero After the Murder of His Mother" (1878)
In 2010 Nero's hometown of Anzio dedicated a statue of the Emperor by Claudio Valenti^[3]

Nero AG and its products Nero, Nero Digital, Nero Burning ROM (add an -E to ROM), Nero ShowTime and features a pictogram of a burning Rome.^[4]

The Sign of the Cross: Charles Laughton as Nero.
Quo Vadis: Peter Ustinov as Nero
Challenge of the Gladiator: a Nero look-alike fools the Thracians into believing he is the real Emperor.
Star Trek: Eric Bana's character is named Nero; a song on the soundtrack is named "Nero Fiddles, Narada Burns"
History of the World, Part 1 Dom Deluise portrays a humorous version of Nero.
Nero's Guests (documentary) film by Deepa Bhatia follows the work of journalist P. Sainath in reporting the agrarian crisis in India and draws a comparison between citizens indifferent to the devastation of farmers and Nero's guests at the festivities who continued their enjoyment by the light of human torches. ^[5]

Margaret Georges The Confessions of Young Nero (2017): The story of Nero's rise to power as told by the young emperor himself.
Tom Holt's A Song for Nero (2003): Nero's double is killed, and the real Nero must try to survive as a street musician.
Dezső Kosztolányi's Nero, the Bloody Poet (1922): A novel imagining Nero's crimes as the acts of an envious poet.
Allan Massie's Nero's Heirs (1999): The death of Nero and the civil war that followed.
David Wishart's Nero (1996): Nero's reign seen through the eyes of Titus Petronius.
Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis (1896): The persecutions of Christians in Nero's Rome.
Robert Graves' I,_Claudius (1934): Nero is depicted prior to the death of his predecessor, Emperor Claudius

Anonymous's The Tragedy of Nero (1624) published by Augustine Matthews ^[8]
Víctor Balaguer's La Mort de Nerón (1894)
Wilson Barrett's The Sign of the Cross
Robert Bridges's Nero: From the Death of Burrus to the Death of Seneca. Comprising the Conspiracy of Piso (1894)
Pietro Cossa's Nero: A Play in Five Acts (1881)
Amy Freed's You, Nero (2009)
Nathaniel Lee's The Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of Rome (1675)
Stephen Phillips's Nero (1906)
Jean Racine's Britannicus (1669)
William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 1: Henry references Nero (Act I, Scene 4)
William Wetmore Story's Nero: An Historical Play (1872)
The 1955 musical Damn Yankees features a song titled "Those Were The Good Old Days", in which the Devil laments the days of Nero 'fiddling through those lovely blaze.'

Enzo Condello's Nero and Seneca 2006.

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