Nero

Throughout his reign, Nero did horrible things. He killed is own mother for instance. For this reason, I think power corrupted him. However, I do not think that one can blame all this corruption on power. Personally, I feel that he was an arrogant man born into power. I think that he had a plan and nobody was going to stop it. This way of thinking shows one reason Nero was so ruthless. I believe the combination of power and arrogance was the "root of all evil" for Nero. The fact that a self-centered man with a plan was born into a family of power and money just exemplifies his will to do wrong. Nero started out evil and as his power grew, so did the evil and corruption.