Nero did some good things.
"...there is evidence that Nero enjoyed some level of popular support. He had a passion for music and the arts, an interest that culminated in a public performance he gave in Rome in A.D. 65."
'He let slip no opportunity for acts of generosity and mercy, or even for displaying his affability,' wrote the otherwise critical Suetonius in the 2nd century A.D. "
https://www.livescience.com/40277-emperor-nero-facts.html
I still think his ghost needs to exeunt.
https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/nero
"In the four months following his return to Rome in February 68, his delirious pretensions as both an artist and a religious worshipper aroused the enmity not only of the Senate and those patricians who had been dispossessed by him but also of the Italian middle class, which had old-fashioned moral views and which furnished most of the officers of the army. Even the common soldiers of the legions were scandalized to see the descendant of Caesar publicly perform onstage the parts not only of ancient Greek heroes but of far lower characters. 'I have seen him onstage,' Gaius Julius Vindex, the legate who rebelled against him, was to say, 'playing pregnant women and slaves about to be executed.'”
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nero-Roman-emperor
Exeunt, Nero.
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