| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
The political background to the reign of Nero -- Nero's family -- The path to power --The expectation and hope of all the world -- The end of the beginning -- Nero and the empire -- The imperial builder -- The beginning of the end -- Rebellion and the fall of Nero |
| Summary |
"David Shotter looks at the source material - literary, historical and material - on which our judgements of Nero have been based and discusses the reliability of the ancient accounts of his reign in the light of their authors' own priorities. Rather than presenting Nero as a timeless monster he shows him in the context of first-century Rome - as a player in the development of the Imperial system of government and as a product of the often treacherous and bloody history of the Julian and Claudian families. Nero, he argues was not the madman of popular myth, nor is there any real evidence that he thought of himself as a god."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-247) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68.
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Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68 |
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Nero Römisches Reich, Kaiser 37-68 |
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Nero (Römisches Reich, Kaiser) |
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Emperors -- Rome -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Emperors
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Rome -- History -- Nero, 54-68.
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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History
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317865919 |
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131786591X |
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9781317865902 |
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1317865901 |
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9781315834788 |
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1315834782 |
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