Nero

by: Champlin, E.

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 The Roman emperor Nero is remembered by history as the vain and immoral monster who fiddled while Rome burned. [In this volume, the author] reinterprets Nero's enormities on their own terms, as the self-conscious performances of an imperial actor with a formidable grasp of Roman history and mythology and a canny sense of his audience. Nero murdered his younger brother and rival to the throne, probably at his mother's prompting. He then murdered his mother, with whom he may have slept. He killed his pregnant wife in a fit of rage, then castrated and married a young freedman because he resembled her. He mounted the public stage to act a hero driven mad or a woman giving birth, and raced a ten-horse chariot in the Olympic games. He probably instigated the burning of Rome, for which he then ordered the spectacular punishment of Christians, many of whom were burned as human torches to light up his gardens at night. Without seeking to rehabilitate the historical monster, [the author] renders Nero ... intelligible by illuminating the motives behind his theatrical gestures, and revealing the artist who thought of himself as a heroic figure. [This book offers an] account that extends back to Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio. The effortless style and artful construction of the book will engage any reader drawn to its intrinsically fascinating subject

Once and future king
Stories and historiess
Portrait of the Arrist
Power of myth
Shining Apollo
Saturnalia
One house
Triumph

Without seeking to rehabilitate the historical monster, Champlin renders Nero more intelligible by illuminating the motives behind his theatrical gestures, and revealing the artist who thought of himself as a heroic figure." "Nero is a reconception of a historical account that extends back to Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio

Subjects:
54-68
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Historical
Biographies
Empereurs Rome Biographies
Emperors
Emperors Rome Biography
HISTORY
History
Nero Römisches Reich, Kaiser
Nero Römisches Reich, Kaiser 37-68
Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68
Néron, empereur romain, 37-68
Rome (Empire)
Rome Histoire 54-68 (Néron)
Rome History Nero, 54-68
collective biographies

Nero

by: Champlin, E.

• ISBN-13: 9780674011922 / 978-0-674-01192-2
• ISBN-03: 0674011929 / 0-674-01192-9
• The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003

Price: 49,00 EURO

1 copy in stock