The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero (Paperback)

Julio-Claudian family tree; Map of the Roman Empire 69 CE; Timeline of events; Introduction: angles on an emperor Shadi BARTSCH, Kirk FREUDENBURG and Cedric LITTLEWOOD; Part I. Nero's World: 1. Nero the performer Matthew LEIGH; 2. Nero and the Senate Josiah Osgood; 3. Nero's imperial administration Carlos F. NORENA; 4. Nero's women Anthony A. BARRETT; Part II. Neronian Literature: 5. Post-Augustan revisionism Cedric LITTLEWOOD; 6. Lucan's Civil War in Nero's Rome Gareth WILLIAMS; 7. Petronius, realism, Nero Kirk FREUDENBURG; 8. Persius in Neroland Daniel HOOLEY; Part III. Neronian Seneca: 9. Senecan drama and the age of Nero Chiara TORRE; 10. Philosophers and the state under Nero Shadi BARTSCH; 11. Seneca: virtue, hypocrisy and (vain)glory Catharine EDWARDS; Part IV. Nero's Monumental Rome: 12. Art and the decadent city Caroline VOUT; 13. Staging Nero: public imagery and the Domus Aurea Eugenio LA ROCCA; 14. Burning Rome, burning Christians John POLLINI; 15. Nero's memory in Flavian Rome Eric VARNER; Part V. The Neros of Reception: 16. Nero into (hi)story Donatien GRAU; 17. Saint Paul and the Christian communities of Nero's Rome J. Albert HARRILL; 18. The image of Nero in Renaissance political thought Peter STACEy; 19. Resurgences of Nero in the Enlightenment Elena RUSSO; 20. Nero in Hollywood Martin M. WINKLER; Part VI. After the Last Laugh: 21. The Neronian 'symptom' Eric GUNDERSON; Appendix: Nero's image, the four portrait types (notes by Eugenio La Rocca).