Nero
By: Edward Champlin
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780674011922; 9780674018228
Subjects: History; Biographies; Histoire; Empereurs; Biography; Emperors
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: The once and future king; title: Stories and histories; title: Portrait of the artist; title: The power of myth; title: Shining Apollo; title: Saturnalia; title: One house; title: Triumph.