ABSTRACT
Nero's impact on Rome and the Empire, unsurprisingly, was considerable, although the Flavian general, Quintus Petillius Cerialis, is reported to have told the leaders of the Treveri during the Gallo-German war of AD 6970. Galba's chief criticism, however, was reserved for the dynastic system of imperial succession that had brought Nero to power and had encouraged him to think of Rome and its Empire as his personal inheritance. Galba's advice had some merit; indeed, his successor, Nero's erstwhile friend, Marcus Otho, seems to a degree to have heeded it As Servius Galba strongly hinted34 in his review of the immediately post-Neronian Roman state, in Nero Caesar Augustus, the last of the Julio-Claudians, Rome effectively had had the Emperor it deserved. Severus Alexander rebuilt and extended Nero's Baths into a new complex named after him. Finally, in the AD 390s, a medal was issued commemorating Games put on by Nero in the Circus Maximus.
