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 yearsMakes much important research available in English for the first timeFeatures a balance of new research with established critical linesOffers an unusual breadth and range of material, including substantial treatments of politics, administration, the imperial court, art, archaeology, literature and reception studiesIncludes a mix of established scholars and groundbreaking new voicesIncludes detailed maps and illustrations

Emma Buckley is Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies at the University of St. Andrews. She has published on post-Virgilian epic, Maffeo Vegio and Christopher Marlowe. She is currently writing a monograph on Valerius FlaccusArgonautica.

Martin T. Dinter is Lecturer in Latin Literature and Language at Kings College London. He has published articles on Virgil, Horace, Lucan and Valerius Flaccus and is the author of a forthcoming monograph on LucansBellum Civile.

List of Illustrations xi

Notes on Contributors xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction: The Neronian (Literary) Renaissance 1Martin T. Dinter

PART I Nero

1 The Performing Prince 17Elaine Fantham

2 Biographies of Nero 29Donna W. Hurley

3 Nero the Imperial Misfit: Philhellenism in a Rich Mans World 45Sigrid Mratschek

PART II The Empire

4 The Empire in the Age of Nero 65Myles Lavan

5 Apollo in Arms: Nero at the Frontier 83David Braund

6 Domus Neroniana: The Imperial Household in the Age of Nero 102Michael J. Mordine

7 Religion 118Darja ¡ Sterbenc Erker

8 Neronian Philosophy 134Jenny Bryan

PART III Literature, Art, and Architecture

9 Seneca, Apocolocyntosis 151Christopher L. Whitton

10 The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus Eclogues 170John Henderson

11 Senecas Philosophical Writings: Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales 188Jonathan Mannering

12 Senecan Tragedy 204Emma Buckley

13 Lucans Bellum Civile 225Philip Hardie

14 Petronius Satyrica 241Tom Murgatroyd

15 Persius 258Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols

16 Columella, De Re Rustica 275Christiane Reitz

17 Literature of the World: Senecas Natural Questions and Plinys Natural History 288Aude Doody

18 Greek Literature Under Nero 302Dirk Uwe Hansen

19 Buildings of an Emperor How Nero Transformed Rome 314Heinz-Jurgen Beste and Henner von Hesberg

20 Portraits of an Emperor Nero, the Sun, and Roman Otium 332Marianne Bergmann

21 Neronian Wall-Painting. A Matter of Perspective 363Katharina Lorenz

PART IV Reception

22 Nero in Jewish and Christian Tradition from the First Century to the Reformation 385Harry O. Maier

23 Haec Monstra Edidit. Translating Lucan in the Early Seventeenth Century 405Yanick Maes

24 Haunted by Horror: The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama 425Susanna Braund

25 Fantasies so Varied and Bizarre: The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the Grotesque 444Michael Squire

Epilogue

26 Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero 467Miriam Griffin

Index 481