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A companion to Neronian Age Blackwell Companions To The Ancient World 1st Edition by Emma Buckley, Martin Dinter ISBN 1444332724 9781444332728

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Author(s): Emma Buckley, Martin Dinter
ISBN(s): 9781444332728, 1444332724
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 5.54 MB
Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1444332724

ISBN 13: 9781444332728 

Author: Emma Buckley, Martin Dinter

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

Table of contents:

Part I: Nero

  • Chapter 1: The Performing Prince

  • Chapter 2: Biographies of Nero

  • Chapter 3: Nero the Imperial Misfit: Philhellenism in a Rich Man’s World

Part II: The Empire

  • Chapter 4: The Empire in the Age of Nero

  • Chapter 5: Apollo in Arms: Nero at the Frontier

  • Chapter 6: Domus Neroniana: The Imperial Household in the Age of Nero

  • Chapter 7: Religion

  • Chapter 8: Neronian Philosophy

Part III: Literature, Art, and Architecture

  • Chapter 9: Seneca, Apocolocyntosis

  • Chapter 10: The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus’ Eclogues

  • Chapter 11: Seneca’s Philosophical Writings: Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales

  • Chapter 12: Senecan Tragedy

  • Chapter 13: Lucan’s Bellum Civile

  • Chapter 14: Petronius’ Satyrica

  • Chapter 15: Persius

  • Chapter 16: Columella, De Re Rustica

  • Chapter 17: Literature of the World: Seneca’s Natural Questions and Pliny’s Natural History

  • Chapter 18: Greek Literature Under Nero

  • Chapter 19: Buildings of an Emperor – How Nero Transformed Rome

  • Chapter 20: Portraits of an Emperor – Nero, the Sun, and Roman Otium

  • Chapter 21: Neronian Wall-Painting – A Matter of Perspective

Part IV: Reception

  • Chapter 22: Nero in Jewish and Christian Tradition from the First Century to the Reformation

  • Chapter 23: Haec Monstra Edidit – Translating Lucan in the Early Seventeenth Century

  • Chapter 24: Haunted by Horror – The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama

  • Chapter 25: “Fantasies so Varied and Bizarre” – The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the “Grotesque”

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