Great+Fire+of+Rome

Great Fire Devastates Rome AD 80—Masses of people flee burning homes as fires rage through Rome. The fire first started in the Plebian quarter as a small fire, officials report. It then spread through the wooden buildings quickly and the small fire soon turned into a huge blaze and within the hour, most of the buildings in the poor quarter were on fire. From there, it expanded to patrician villas until almost entire Rome was in flames. Finally, after a lengthy three days of burning and chaos, the fires were extinguished. As a consequence of this event, many superstitious citizens of Rome are now against the emperor Titus. This is the emperor’s second disaster in his short reign. Are the gods against him? Whatever the answer is, the emperor is rapidly loosing his popularity among Patricians and Plebians alike in Rome and will have to do something amazing in order to preserve both his reputation and his life.