Category:Nero--literature (subject)
Works of literature related to Nero
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Overview
In 1484 the editio princeps of the Latin play Octavia, attributed to Seneca, was published in Ferrara. Soon, also the stories by Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio became widely available in print.
Starting from the very beginning of the 17th century, numerous plays were performed, having Nero as their protagonist. These plays "gathered out of Tacitus, Suetonius, Dio, and Seneca," and focused on the court intrigues at the time of Nero, with no specific reference to Christian Origins. At the center was always the madness and cruelty of the Emperor, whom all ancient sources described as a ruthless tyrant.
In the 19th century a growing interest in Christian Origins let progressively to the merging of the classical narrative on Nero as a tyrant and his religious condemnation as a "persecutor of the Church." The result was the novel Quo Vadis?, one of most successful pieces of narrative of all times. The new religious emphasis overshadowed the "classical" narrative in popular culture and the persecution of the Christians became the central piece of evidence of the Emperor's madness.
Only in some recent novels there has been an effort to present a more balanced view of Nero and understand the reasons that guided his own actions.
@2017 Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan
Pages in category "Nero--literature (subject)"
The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
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- Pseudo-Seneca. Octavia (1484 Gallicus), play (ed. princeps)
- Nero (1603 Gwinne), play
- Agrippina (1665 Lohenstein), play
- Il Nerone (Nero / 1666 Biancolelli), play
- Britannicus (1669 Racine), play
- Il Nerone (Nero / 1675 Boccaccio), play
- The Tragedy of Nero, Emperor of Rome (1675 Lee), play
- Piso's Conspiracy (1676 Lee), play
- Epicharis (1685 Lohenstein), play
- La mort de Néron (The Death of Nero / 1703 Péchantrès), play
- Colección de varias historias (1767-1768 Santos Alonso), novel
- Ottavia (Octavia / 1783 Alfieri), play
- Épicharis et Néron; ou, Conspiration pour la liberté (Epicharis and Nero / 1794 Legouvé), play
- Julia of Baiae; or, The Days of Nero (1843 brown), novel
- Nero, the Parricide (1870 Anderson), play
- Nerone (Nero / 1872 Cossa), play
- Nero (1875 Story), play
- Nero (1880 Comfort), play
- (+) Nero (1889 Eckstein), novel
- Rebekah (1889 Jones), novel
- Acte (1890 Westbury), novel
- The Sign of the Cross (1897 Barrett), novel
- Nero (1898 Panizza), play
- Nero (1906 Phillips), play
- Il novello giuda (1935 Gelo), play
- Claudius the God (1935 Graves), novel
- Der falsche Nero (The False Nero / 1936 Feuchtwanger), novel
- When Nero Was Dictator (1939 Cummins), vision
- The Blood of the Martyrs (1939 Mitchison), novel
- Beware of Caesar (1965 Sheean), novel
- The Conspiracy (1972 Hersey), novel
- The Flames of Rome (1981 Maier), novel
- The Illusionist (1984 Mason), novel
- Imperial Patient: The Memoirs of Nero's Doctor (1987 Comfort), novel
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- The Third Princess (2005 Boast), novel
- The Last Sacrifice (2005 Hanegraaff/Brouwer), novel
- Cristo, Nerone e il segreto di Maddalena (2006 Arcucci, Ferri), novel
- L'incendie de Rome (2006 Nahmias), novel
- El testamento del pescador (2007 Vidal Manzanares), novel
- The Confessions of Young Nero (2017 George), novel
Media in category "Nero--literature (subject)"
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