Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Neronian (Literary) ``Renaissance'' -- The Neronian Literary Triad: Seneca, Lucan, and Petronius -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I Nero -- Chapter 1 The Performing Prince -- The Training and Pastimes of Princes -- Music and Musical Performance in Nero's Rome -- Acceptable Diversions / Voluptates Concessae -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 2 Biographies of Nero -- The First Assessments -- Cassius Dio -- Tacitus -- Suetonius -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 3 Nero the Imperial Misfit: Philhellenism in a Rich Man's World -- Breaking with Tradition -- Greek Culture at the Imperial Court -- Caesar Omnia Habet: It's a Rich Man's World -- Like the Gleaming Sun -- Greek Theatrical Culture in Rome -- Lord of the Golden Age -- Festival Victor and Benefactor of all Greeks -- The Last Act: Triumph and On-Stage Death -- Further Reading -- References -- Part II The Empire -- Chapter 4 The Empire in the Age of Nero -- The Principate -- Governing the Provinces -- Power and Privilege in the Roman Empire -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 5 Apollo in Arms: Nero at the Frontier -- The Western Empire -- The Eastern Empire: The Black Sea and Armenia (see Map 1) -- Plans in Ethiopia and the Caucasus -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 6 Domus Neroniana: The Imperial Household in the Age of Nero -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 7 Religion -- The Emperor and Religion -- Nero's Priestly Offices -- The Worship of the Imperial Family in Rome -- Emperor Cult outside Rome -- Literary Representations of the Dichotomy Religion/Superstition -- Religion and Superstition in the Satyrica -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 8 Neronian Philosophy.

Introduction -- Cornutus -- Musonius Rufus -- Seneca -- De Clementia -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Part III Literature, Art, and Architecture -- Chapter 9 Seneca, Apocolocyntosis -- Menippean Monarchy -- Who's Laughing Anyway? -- De-deification -- Problems with Praise -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 10 The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues -- Carmina Einsidlensia -- Calpurnius Siculus, Eclogues -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 11 Seneca's Philosophical Writings: Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales -- Introduction: The Writings of Seneca the Younger -- One's Place In The Universe: Naturales Quaestiones (Natural Questions) -- How To Be ''Indifferent'' Towards Politics, Friends, and Family: Dialogi (Dialogues) -- The Care of the Self, unto Itself: Epistulae Morales (Moral Letters) -- L. Annaeus Seneca, Stoicus Sui Generis -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 12 Senecan Tragedy -- Preliminaries -- Tragedy and Philosophy -- ''Let no new thing arise'': Senecan Intertextuality -- The Politics of Senecan Tragedy -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 13 Lucan's Bellum Civile -- Lucan as Epic Successor and Innovator -- The Bellum Civile and the Aeneid -- Roman Values -- Caesar, Pompey, Cato -- The Narrator's Voice, The Reader's Gaze -- The Cloud of Unknowing -- Pathos, Hyperbole, Paradox -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 14 Petronius' Satyrica -- Cast of Satyrs -- Petronius and the Picaresque Novel -- Filling in the Gaps -- Through the Peep holes -- Looking down on Trimalchio -- Making Virgil Blush -- Audience Responses -- Eumolpus and Educational Guidance -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 15 Persius -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 16 Columella, De Re Rustica -- Background -- Columella - The Author -- Genre -- Work -- Sources.

Style -- Mos Maiorum and Columella's Contemporary Readers -- Reception -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 17 Literature of the World: Seneca's Natural Questions and Pliny's Natural History -- Roman Writing about Nature -- A Moral Universe: Luxury and Extravagance at Rome -- Nero and the Natural World -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 18 Greek Literature Under Nero -- Two Influential Starting Points -- From Rhetoric to Philosophy -- True philosophy to be looked at: the Tabula Cebetis -- Philosophy for the Soul / Medicine for the Body -- Science and Mechanics: Heron of Alexandria -- Seasoning Literature with Wit: The Epigram -- The Beginning of Something New: Christian Theology and the Letters of Paul -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 19 Buildings of an Emperor-How Nero Transformed Rome -- Public Buildings and their Function -- Nero's Palace Complexes in Rome -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 20 Portraits of an Emperor-Nero, the Sun, and Roman Otium -- Nero's Portraits -- Memoria Damnata. The Removal of Nero's Portraits after his Death -- The Comparison of Nero with Apollo and the Sun God -- Sculptures of the Neronian Period? -- Interpreting Nero: Past and Present Scholarship -- Interpreting Nero in Context -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 21 Neronian Wall-Painting. A Matter of Perspective -- Nature and Space: Beyond Trompe-L'Oeil -- Space and Narrative: The Theater as Perspectival Tool -- Narrative and Perception: The Theming of Space -- The Domus Aurea: The Art of Pervasive Confinement -- Neronian Wall-Painting in Perspective -- Further Reading -- References -- Part IV Reception -- Chapter 22 Nero in Jewish and Christian Tradition from the First Century to the Reformation -- Nero in Jewish Tradition: Destroyer of the Holy Nation, Father of Rabbis, Redivivus.

The Number of the Beast: Nero as Persecutor, Heretic, Antichrist in Earliest Christianity -- The Great Presumption of Interpretation: Nero in Early Christianity -- Nero's Long Shadow: The Life and Times of a Tyrant in Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Tradition -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 23 Haec Monstra Edidit. Translating Lucan in the Early Seventeenth Century -- The Shadow of Scaliger -- Lucan among the Protestants -- Lucan in the Netherlands -- Grotius' Lucan and the Twelve Year Truce -- Lucan in Dutch -- Lucan's Challenge -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 24 Haunted by Horror: The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 25 ``Fantasies so Varied and Bizarre'': The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the ``Grotesque'' -- ''Breaking our Backbones on our Knees'' -- Seeing Beyond the Vanishing Point -- From Margins to Centre -- A Visually Mediated Discourse of Renaissance Visuality -- Further Reading -- References -- Epilogue -- Chapter 26 Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero -- Nero the Hero -- Reasons for the Change in Attitude: Visual Interests -- Theatre in Particular -- Further Reasons: Greek Identity under Roman rule -- Further Reasons: Politicians and Spin -- Nero the Showman in the Ancient Historical Sources -- Tacitus in Particular -- The Pace of Tacitus' Narrative -- Nero in the Fictional Dialogue Nero -- References -- Index -- Supplemental Images.

An authoritative overview and helpful resource for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature during the reign of Nero. The first book of its kind to treat this era, which has gained in popularity in recent years Makes much important research available in English for the first time Features a balance of new research with established critical lines Offers an unusual breadth and range of material, including substantial treatments of politics, administration, the imperial court, art, archaeology, literature and reception studies Includes a mix of established scholars and groundbreaking new voices Includes detailed maps and illustrations.

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