Reflections of Nero: Culture, History, & Representation (1994 Elsner, Masters), edited volume

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Reflections of Nero: Culture, History, & Representation (1994) is a volume edited by Jas Elsner and Jamie Masters.

Abstract

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Editions

Published in Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Contents

Introduction / Jas Elsner and Jamie Masters

  • 1. Make like Nero! The appeal of a cinematic emperor / Maria Wyke
  • 2. Nero in Tacitus and Nero in Tacitism: the historian's craft / Joan-Pau Rubies
  • 3. The inventio of Nero: Suetonius / Tamsyn Barton
  • 4. The tyrant at table / Justin Goddard
  • 5. Beware of imitations: theatre and the subversion of imperial identity / Catharine Edwards
  • 6. Nero at play? The emperor's Grecian odyssey / Susan E. Alcock
  • 7. Constructing decadence: the representation of Nero as imperial builder / Jas Elsner
  • 8. Persius and the decoction of Nero / Emily Gowers
  • 9. Deceiving the reader: the political mission of Lucan Bellum Civile 7 / Jamie Masters
  • 10. Nero, Seneca and Stoicism in the Octavia / Gareth Williams
  • 11. Seneca's Thyestes and the morality of tragic furor / Alessandro Schiesaro
  • 12. Educating Nero: a reading of Seneca's Moral Epistles / Yun Lee Too.

External links

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