Nero: Evil By Nature or Power?

     Personally, I feel that Nero was evil by both nature and power. Something in his character probably made him more prone to evil: selfishness, pride, etc. Anything small enough, but  susceptible enough most likely influenced this inclination. As time went on and he became more and more powerful, Nero was probably pushed toward such depravity, emphasizing the "absolute powers corrupts absolutely"mentality. I tend to lean more toward this idea because I've seen good people make terrible decisions when given power. Power highlights, more often than not, the blemishes within people's characters. History probably had a hand in this as well, since the records we have were written by people other than Nero himself, and thus susceptible to bias. Nero's wickedness, in my mind, stems from a combination of all these things.