A Companion to the Neronian Age: Dinter/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 Content: Chapter 1 The Performing Prince (pages 15–28): Elaine Fantham Chapter 2 Biographies of Nero (pages 29–44): Donna W. Hurley Chapter 3 Nero the Imperial Misfit: Philhellenism in a Rich Man's World (pages 45–62): Sigrid Mratschek Chapter 4 The Empire in the Age of Nero (pages 63–82): Myles Lavan Chapter 5 Apollo in Arms: Nero at the Frontier (pages 83–101): David Braund Chapter 6 Domus Neroniana: The Imperial Household in the Age of Nero (pages 102–117): Michael J. Mordine Chapter 7 Religion (pages 118–133): Darja Sterbenc Erker Chapter 8 Neronian Philosophy (pages 134–148): Jenny Bryan Chapter 9 Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (pages 149–169): Christopher L. Whitton Chapter 10 The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues (pages 170–187): John Henderson Chapter 11 Seneca's Philosophical Writings: Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales (pages 188–203): Jonathan Mannering Chapter 12 Senecan Tragedy (pages 204–224): Emma Buckley Chapter 13 Lucan's Bellum Civile (pages 225–240): Philip Hardie Chapter 14 Petronius' Satyrica (pages 241–257): Tom Murgatroyd Chapter 15 Persius (pages 258–274): Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols Chapter 16 Columella, De Re Rustica (pages 275–287): Christiane Reitz Chapter 17 Literature of the World: Seneca's Natural Questions and Pliny's Natural History (pages 288–301): Aude Doody Chapter 18 Greek Literature Under Nero (pages 302–313): Dirk Uwe Hansen Chapter 19 Buildings of an Emperor – How Nero Transformed Rome (pages 314–331): Heinz?Jurgen Beste and Henner von Hesberg Chapter 20 Portraits of an Emperor – Nero, the Sun, and Roman Otium (pages 332–362): Marianne Bergmann Chapter 21 Neronian Wall?Painting. A Matter of Perspective (pages 363–381): Katharina Lorenz Chapter 22 Nero in Jewish and Christian Tradition from the First Century to the Reformation (pages 383–404): Harry O. Maier Chapter 23 Haec Monstra Edidit. Translating Lucan in the Early Seventeenth Century (pages 405–424): Yanick Maes Chapter 24 Haunted by Horror: The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama (pages 425–443): Susanna Braund Chapter 25 “Fantasies so Varied and Bizarre”: The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the “Grotesque” (pages 444–464): Michael Squire Chapter 26 Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero (pages 465–480): Miriam Griffin Provides an authoritative overview and helpful resource for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature during the reign of Nero. It offers an unusual breadth and range of material, including substantial treatments of politics, administration, the imperial court, art, archaeology, literature and reception studies A Companion to the Neronian Age is an up-to-date, interdisciplinary and comprehensive collection of essays on the literature, history, archaeology and the reception of the Neronian Age.