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Ancient Greeks did not attempt to sail around but portaged their huge vessels across the 6 km (4 mile) wide isthmus, and as early as a.d. 67, the Roman Emperor Nero was making the first attempts at cutting a canal.
No, not the fiddling of Nero or Nashville.
Nero was emperor until 70 A.D.
The 17th-century chapel of Domine Quo Vadis marks the site where St. Peter, fleeing Nero’s persecution in Rome, is said to have encountered Christ.
The name Colosseum , now usually taken to refer to its size, originally referred to the fact that the amphitheater was built adjacent to a huge statue (a colossus ) of the sun god that had been commissioned by Nero, allegedly in his own likeness.