Table of Contents
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 Šterbenc 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-Jürgen 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
