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 Flaccus' Argonautica.

Martin T. Dinter is Lecturer in Latin Literature and Language at King's College London. He has published articles on Virgil, Horace, Lucan and Valerius Flaccus and is the author of a forthcoming monograph on Lucan's Bellum Civile.

List of Illustrations xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: The Neronian (Literary) ''Renaissance'' 1
Martin T. Dinter
PART I Nero
1 The Performing Prince 17
Elaine Fantham
2 Biographies of Nero 29
Donna W. Hurley
3 Nero the Imperial Misfit: Philhellenism in a Rich Man's World 45
Sigrid Mratschek
PART II The Empire
4 The Empire in the Age of Nero 65
Myles Lavan
5 Apollo in Arms: Nero at the Frontier 83
David Braund
6 Domus Neroniana: The Imperial Household in the Age of Nero 102
Michael J. Mordine
7 Religion 118
Darja ¡ Sterbenc Erker
8 Neronian Philosophy 134
Jenny Bryan
PART III Literature, Art, and Architecture
9 Seneca, Apocolocyntosis 151
Christopher L. Whitton
10 The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues 170
John Henderson
11 Seneca's Philosophical Writings: Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales 188
Jonathan Mannering
12 Senecan Tragedy 204
Emma Buckley
13 Lucan's Bellum Civile 225
Philip Hardie
14 Petronius' Satyrica 241
Tom Murgatroyd
15 Persius 258
Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols
16 Columella, De Re Rustica 275
Christiane Reitz
17 Literature of the World: Seneca's Natural Questions and Pliny's Natural History 288
Aude Doody
18 Greek Literature Under Nero 302
Dirk Uwe Hansen
19 Buildings of an Emperor - How Nero Transformed Rome 314
Heinz-J¿urgen Beste and Henner von Hesberg
20 Portraits of an Emperor - Nero, the Sun, and Roman Otium 332
Marianne Bergmann
21 Neronian Wall-Painting. A Matter of Perspective 363
Katharina Lorenz
PART IV Reception
22 Nero in Jewish and Christian Tradition from the First Century to the Reformation 385
Harry O. Maier
23 Haec Monstra Edidit. Translating Lucan in the Early Seventeenth Century 405
Yanick Maes
24 Haunted by Horror: The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama 425
Susanna Braund
25 ''Fantasies so Varied and Bizarre'': The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the ''Grotesque'' 444
Michael Squire
Epilogue
26 Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero 467
Miriam Griffin
Index 481

An authoritative overview and helpful resource for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature during the reign of Nero.
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