LEADER 04317oam 2200577 450 001 9910139015603321 005 20190911100039.0 010 $a1-118-31653-3 010 $a1-118-31817-X 010 $a1-118-31677-0 010 $a1-78268-825-0 010 $a1-299-46475-0 010 $a1-118-31659-2 035 $a(OCoLC)846961657 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL6RML 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001019383 100 $a20120925d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to the Neronian age /$fedited by Emma Buckley and Martin T. Dinter 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChichester, West Sussex, U.K. $cWiley-Blackwell$d2013 210 1$aChichester, West Sussex, UK :$cWiley-Blackwell, a John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 486 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) $cillustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to the ancient world 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4443-3272-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: The Neronian (Literary) "Renaissance" / Martin T. Dinter -- Part I. Nero -- The Performing Prince / Elaine Fantham -- Biographies of Nero / Donna W. Hurley -- Nero the Imperial Misfit : Philhellenism in a Rich Man's World / Sigrid Mratschek -- Part II. The Empire -- The empire in the age of Nero / Myles Lavan -- Apollo in arms : Nero at the frontier / David Braund -- Domus Neroniana : The Imperial Household in the Age of Nero / Michael J. Mordine -- Religion / Darja Eterbenc Erker -- Neronian Philosophy / Jenny Bryan -- Part III. Literature, Art and Architecture -- Seneca, Apocolocyntosis / Christopher L. Whitton -- The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues / John Henderson -- Seneca's Philosophical Writings : Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales / Jonathan Mannering -- Senecan Tragedy / Emma Buckley -- Lucan's Bellum Ciuile / Philip Hardie -- Petronius' Satyrica / Tom Murgatroyd -- Persius / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols -- Columella, De Re Rustica / Christiane Reitz -- Literature of the World : Seneca's Natural Questions and Pliny's Natural History / Aude Doody -- Greek Literature Under Nero / Dirk Uwe Hansen -- Buildings of an Emperor : how Nero transformed Rome / Heinz-Ju?rgen Beste and Henner von Hesberg -- Portraits of an Emperor : Nero and the Sun / Marianne Bergmann -- Neronian Wall-Painting : A Matter of Perspective / Katharina Lorenz -- Part IV. Reception -- Nero in Jewish and Christian Tradition from the First Century to the Reformation / Harry O. Maier -- Haec monstra edidit : Translating Lucan in the early seventeenth century / Yanick Maes -- Haunted by Horror : The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama / Susanna Braund -- "Fantasies so varied and bizarre" : The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the "grotesque" / Michael Squire -- Epilogue -- Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero / Miriam Griffin. 330 $aAn authoritative overview and helpful resource for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature during the reign of Nero.The first book of its kind to treat this era, which has gained in popularity in recent yearsMakes much important research available in English for the first timeFeatures a balance of new research with established critical linesOffers an unusual breadth and range of material, including substantial treatments of politics, administration, the imperial court, art, archaeology, literature and reception studiesIncludes a m 410 0$aBlackwell companions to the ancient world. 606 $aLatin literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aArt, Roman 606 $aArchitecture, Roman$xHistory 607 $aRome$xHistory$yNero, 54-68 607 $aRome$xIntellectual life 615 0$aLatin literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aArt, Roman. 615 0$aArchitecture, Roman$xHistory. 676 $a937/.07 702 $aBuckley$b Emma 702 $aDinter$b Martin T. 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910139015603321 996 $aCompanion to the Neronian age$91078347 997 $aUNINA