Nero

Name: Nero
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ISBN: 9780674018228

ISBN-10: 0674018222

ISBN-13: 9780674018228

Edition: 2003

Authors: Edward Champlin

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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, Champlin renders Nero more vividly intelligible by…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.87" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Edward Champlin is Professor of Classics and Cotsen Professor of Humanities, Princeton University.




The Once and Future King



Stories and Histories



Portrait of the Artist



The Power of Myth



Shining Apollo



Saturnalia



One House



Triumph


Epilogue


Note on Sources


Bibliography


Notes


Acknowledgments


Illustration Credits


Index