Thread: The Top 101 CP Posters of 2014 Part 2 Presented by SNR
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Old 09-23-2014, 10:47 PM   #816
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That's an interesting thing I've never thought about. Nero? Fiddling? They didn't have violins in the 1st century AD. Like, not even close. The oldest thing that's even remotely related to a fiddle is the rebec, and that wouldn't show up until AT LEAST a millennium after Nero died, and you can probably tack on a few more centuries after that. Nero would have had a lyre to accompany his singing, but that's quite different in terms of modes of instrument playing. It's like saying, "Ehh... violin... harp... close enough..."

What a bizarre anachronistic myth.
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