A companion to the Neronian age
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Neronian (Literary) "Renaissance" / Martin T. Dinter
- Part I. Nero
- The Performing Prince / Elaine Fantham
- Biographies of Nero / Donna W. Hurley
- Nero the Imperial Misfit : Philhellenism in a Rich Man's World / Sigrid Mratschek
- Part II. The Empire
- The empire in the age of Nero / Myles Lavan
- Apollo in arms : Nero at the frontier / David Braund
- Domus Neroniana : The Imperial Household in the Age of Nero / Michael J. Mordine
- Religion / Darja Eterbenc Erker
- Neronian Philosophy / Jenny Bryan
- Part III. Literature, Art and Architecture
- Seneca, Apocolocyntosis / Christopher L. Whitton
- The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues / John Henderson
- Seneca's Philosophical Writings : Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales / Jonathan Mannering
- Senecan Tragedy / Emma Buckley
- Lucan's Bellum Ciuile / Philip Hardie
- Petronius' Satyrica / Tom Murgatroyd
- Persius / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols
- Columella, De Re Rustica / Christiane Reitz
- Literature of the World : Seneca's Natural Questions and Pliny's Natural History / Aude Doody
- Greek Literature Under Nero / Dirk Uwe Hansen
- Buildings of an Emperor : how Nero transformed Rome / Heinz-Jürgen Beste and Henner von Hesberg
- Portraits of an Emperor : Nero and the Sun / Marianne Bergmann
- Neronian Wall-Painting : A Matter of Perspective / Katharina Lorenz
- Part IV. Reception
- Nero in Jewish and Christian Tradition from the First Century to the Reformation / Harry O. Maier
- Haec monstra edidit : Translating Lucan in the early seventeenth century / Yanick Maes
- Haunted by Horror : The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama / Susanna Braund
- "Fantasies so varied and bizarre" : The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the "grotesque" / Michael Squire
- Epilogue
- Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero / Miriam Griffin.