Nero

  Nero was most certainly born evil.  In the reading it said that the first few years were fine for Nero and it was a sort of Golden Age for Rome; however, he was still doing evil things like murdering his mother for power.  He did make an effort to get the people to like him however.  He had a great musical prowess from what we can tell and often did theater performances.  Though it should be mentioned that the shows were mandatory and couldn't leave.  He also helped with the great fire that occurred.  He made plans to help the people and lowered taxes and gave money for rebuilding projects.  People still blamed it on him because he build a great golden house for himself on where the fire had burned.  Then later in his reign he kicked a wife to death and went on a witch hunt for senators and many more evil accounts.  Though power probably did contribute to his evilness, he definitely already had evil within him before his reign.