Format:
Online-Ressource (329 p.)
ISBN:
9780415214643
Content:
Nero's personality and crimes have always intrigued historians and writers of fiction. This book offers a fascinating insight into the sensational life and troubled times of the Emperor Nero
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Preface to Second Paperback Edition; Introduction; The Making of a Princeps Nero's Paternal Clan The Ambitions of Agrippina; The New Ruler; The Golden Age; Partners in Power; The Turning Point Signs of Stress in the Good Years Ideological Tension Attitudes to Claudius; The Descent into Tyranny The New Advisers Personality and Principate Bread ... ... and Circuses First without Equals; The Tyranny of Art Numismatic Innovations Architecture and Town Planning
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The Artistic Tyrant The Literary Renaissance Neronian Patronage The Theory of a Literary Opposition The Emperor on the Stage'What an Artist Dies with Me' The Pisonian Conspiracy The Persecution of the Stoics The Vinician Conspiracy; Why Did It Happen?; The Problem of the Succession Nero's Rivals; The Problem of Finance The Augustan Pattern The Magnificent Monarch; The Temptation of Philhellenism Nero's Greek Tastes Practical Benefits Family and Imperial History The Notion of Divine Monarchy
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The Military Image of the Princeps Neronian Foreign Policy The Pursuit of GlorySources for the Neronian Material in Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio; Nero's Later Coinage; Notes and References; Bibliography; Index of Persons, Human and Divine; General Index; Index of Inscriptions, Papyri and Coins;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203133095
Additional Edition:
Print version Nero : The End of a Dynasty
Language:
English
Keywords:
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