This book analyses the literary strategies that Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in depicting the eccentric emperors Nero and Domitian and their imperial representation.

Verena Schulz is a Classical Philologist at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She has published a monograph (Die Stimme in der antiken Rhetorik, 2014), an edited volume, and many articles on Roman historiography and ancient rhetoric.