Nero : the end of a dynasty

Nero. The End of a Dynasty (2001)\r......Page 1
ISBN: 0203179773 (Glassbook Format)......Page 5
--> Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
Preface to Second Paperback Edition......Page 11
Supplementary Bibliography......Page 12
Stemma of The Julio-Claudians......Page 13
1 - Introduction......Page 16
2 - The Making of a Princeps......Page 19
Nero’s Paternal Clan......Page 21
The Ambitions of Agrippina......Page 24
PART ONE - NERO’S PRINCIPATE......Page 36
3 - The New Ruler......Page 38
4 - The Golden Age......Page 51
5 - Partners in Power......Page 68
6 - The Turning Point......Page 84
Signs of Stress in the Good Years......Page 88
Ideological Tension......Page 95
Attitudes to Claudius......Page 97
The New Advisers......Page 101
Personality and Principate......Page 105
Bread . . .......Page 106
. . . and Circuses......Page 110
First without Equals......Page 113
8 - The Tyranny of Art......Page 120
Numismatic Innovations......Page 121
Architecture and Town Planning......Page 126
The Literary Renaissance......Page 152
Neronian Patronage......Page 155
The Theory of a Literary Opposition......Page 164
The Emperor on the Stage......Page 169
10 - ‘What an Artist Dies With Me’......Page 173
The Pisonian Conspiracy......Page 175
The Persecution of the Stoics......Page 180
The Vinician Conspiracy......Page 186
PART TWO - POST-MORTEM ON THE FALL OF NERO......Page 192
11 - Why Did It Happen?......Page 194
12 - The Problem of the Succession......Page 198
Nero’s Rivals......Page 202
13 - The Problem Of Finance......Page 206
The Augustan Pattern......Page 209
The Magnificent Monarch......Page 214
Nero’s Greek Tastes......Page 217
Practical Benefits......Page 219
Family and Imperial History......Page 222
The Notion of Divine Monarchy......Page 224
15 - The Military Image of the Princeps......Page 230
Neronian Foreign Policy......Page 233
The Pursuit of Glory......Page 239
APPENDIX ONE - Sources for the Neronian Material in Tacitus Annals, Suetonius Nero and Cassius Dio......Page 244
APPENDIX TWO - Nero’s Later Coinage......Page 247
2 - The Making of a Princeps (pages 18–33)......Page 249
3 - The New Ruler (pages 37–49)......Page 253
4 - The Golden Age (pages 50–66)......Page 257
5 - Partners in Power (pages 67–82)......Page 262
6 - The Turning Point (pages 83–99)......Page 265
7 - The Descent into Tyranny (pages 100–118)......Page 268
8 - The Tyranny of Art (pages 119–142)......Page 275
9 - The Artistic Tyrant (pages 143–163)......Page 281
10 - ‘What an Artist Dies with Me’ (pages 164–182)......Page 290
11 - Why Did It Happen? (pages 185–188)......Page 296
12 - The Problem of the Succession (pages 189–196)......Page 297
13 - The Problem of Finance (pages 197–207)......Page 298
14 - The Temptation of Philhellenism (pages 208–220)......Page 303
15 - The Military Image of the Princeps (pages 221–234)......Page 306
Bibliography......Page 311
Index of Persons, Human & Divine......Page 318
General Index......Page 325
Index of Inscriptions, Papyri & Coins......Page 327