Actually, according to some research I did for a story about his mother Agrippina Minor, Nero was quite a good-looking young man. When he first came to power, it was said that he was 'conspicuously handsome, with a finely chiseled nose, square chin and thick curls.'

But as we all know, with his reputedly debauched life, he was far from all that when his reign came to an end!