A Companion to the Neronian Age

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

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

List of Illustrations xiNotes on Contributors xiiiAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction: The Neronian (Literary) ''Renaissance'' 1Martin T. DinterPart I Nero1 The Performing Prince 17Elaine Fantham2 Biographies of Nero 29Donna W. Hurley3 Nero the Imperial Misfit: Philhellenism in a Rich Man's World 45Sigrid MratschekPart II the Empire4 The Empire in the Age of Nero 65Myles Lavan5 Apollo in Arms: Nero at the Frontier 83David Braund6 Domus Neroniana: The Imperial Household in the Age of Nero 102Michael J. Mordine7 Religion 118Darja Sterbenc Erker8 Neronian Philosophy 134Jenny BryanPart III Literature, Art, and Architecture9 Seneca, Apocolocyntosis 151Christopher L. Whitton10 The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues 170John Henderson11 Seneca's Philosophical Writings: Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales 188Jonathan Mannering12 Senecan Tragedy 204Emma Buckley13 Lucan's Bellum Civile 225Philip Hardie14 Petronius' Satyrica 241Tom Murgatroyd15 Persius 258Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols16 Columella, De Re Rustica 275Christiane Reitz17 Literature of the World: Seneca's Natural Questions and Pliny's Natural History 288Aude Doody18 Greek Literature Under Nero 302Dirk Uwe Hansen19 Buildings of an Emperor - How Nero Transformed Rome 314Heinz-Jürgen Beste and Henner von Hesberg20 Portraits of an Emperor - Nero, the Sun, and Roman Otium 332Marianne Bergmann21 Neronian Wall-Painting. A Matter of Perspective 363Katharina LorenzPart IV Reception22 Nero in Jewish and Christian Tradition from the First Century to the Reformation 385Harry O. Maier23 Haec Monstra Edidit. Translating Lucan in the Early Seventeenth Century 405Yanick Maes24 Haunted by Horror: The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama 425Susanna Braund25 ''Fantasies so Varied and Bizarre'': The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the ''Grotesque'' 444Michael SquireEpilogue26 Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero 467Miriam GriffinIndex 481