Nero: Emperor and Court

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Figures
Tables
Introduction
Part I Background
	Chapter 1 Nero, 'Bad' or 'Good'?
		1.1 Introduction
		1.2 Biography
		1.3 Demonisation
		1.4 Rationalisation
		1.5 Reassessment
		1.6 Caveats
		1.7 Initial Success
		1.8 Senatorial Tradition
		1.9 Nero and the Senate (i)
		1.10 Achievements
	Chapter 2 Agrippina and Her Legacy
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 Life and Career to the Accession of Nero
		2.3 Long-Term Planning
		2.4 'Queen Mother'
		2.5 The Acte Affair
		2.6 Legacy
	Chapter 3 The Establishment Team
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 The Team
			3.2.1 The Court
			3.2.2 Intimates
			3.2.3 Military Prefects
			3.2.4 Liberti
			3.2.5 The Outer Circle
		3.3 Consilium
			3.3.1 Structure and Operation
			3.3.2 Legal Business
			3.3.3 Inclusivity
	Chapter 4 Dissimulation?
		4.1 Delegation
		4.2 Dissimulation and Dissidence?
		4.3 Paradox and Confusion?
		4.4 Doublespeak?
		4.5 A Carnival of Fear?
		4.6 The Problem of the Sources
		4.7 The Problem of Prejudice: the Strength of the Principate
		4.8 Nero and the Senate (ii)
		4.9 Exclusion
		4.10 The Power of Gossip
		4.11 Dissimulation?
	Chapter 5 Frankness and Enquiry
		5.1 Nero
		5.2 Neronian Literature
			5.2.1 Petronius, Seneca
			5.2.2 Critics of Nero
			5.2.3 Lucan and Cornutus
		5.3 Saying the Unsayable
		5.4 Wider Neronian Culture
			5.4.1 Architecture and Art
			5.4.2 Science
			5.4.3 Geography
			5.4.4 Nero?
		5.5 Protected Nero
	Chapter 6 Warfare and the Generals
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 Armenia (i)
			6.2.1 Background
			6.2.2 Corbulo (i)
		6.3 The New Order and Britain
		6.4 The Black Sea
		6.5 Armenia (ii)
		6.6 The Generals
			6.6.1 Corbulo (ii)
			6.6.2 Consuls and Generals
		6.7 The Caucasus and Judaea
			6.7.1 The Caucasus
			6.7.2 Judaea
		6.8 Conclusion
	Chapter 7 Politics
		7.1 Power-Groups
		7.2 Seneca's De clementia: Stoicism and Politics
		7.3 Nero's Team and Its Aims
		7.4 Nero's Break-Outs
Part II Assessment
	Chapter 8 Killer? I: 54-62
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 Claudius
		8.3 M. Junius Silanus
		8.4 Britannicus
		8.5 Agrippina
			8.5.1 Recovery (55-58)
			8.5.2 Destruction (58-59)
		8.6 The Year 62
			8.6.1 Burrus?
			8.6.2 Succession
			8.6.3 Rubellius Plautus, Faustus Cornelius Sulla
			8.6.4 Octavia
			8.6.5 Doryphorus, Pallas
		8.7 Conclusion
	Chapter 9 Killer? II: 62-68
		9.1 Introduction
		9.2 D. Junius Silanus
		9.3 The Pisonian Conspiracy
			9.3.1 Introduction
			9.3.2 Membership
			9.3.3 Course
			9.3.4 Motives
			9.3.5 Assessment
			9.3.6 Punishment
			9.3.7 Conclusion
		9.4 Poppaea
		9.5 Antonia
		9.6 The Last Killings
			9.6.1 Introduction
			9.6.2 The Vinician Conspirators
			9.6.3 Corbulo (iii)
			9.6.4 The Scribonii
			9.6.5 The Victims of Helius
			9.6.6 Deaths in Greece
		9.7 Conclusion
	Chapter 10 Arsonist, Persecutor and Ruthless Property Developer?
		10.1 Arson: The Case For
		10.2 Arson: The Case Against
		10.3 Why Nero?
		10.4 Christians as Scapegoats
		10.5 The Golden House
	Chapter 11 Divinity, Madness, Acting, Ideology, Burn-Out
		11.1 Divinity
			11.1.1 Nero-Apollo?
			11.1.2 Golden Age?
			11.1.3 Hellenistic Kingship?
			11.1.4 Nero the Mortal
			11.1.5 The Colossus
		11.2 Madness?
			11.2.1 Psychoanalysing Nero?
			11.2.2 Degrees of Irrationality
		11.3 Acting
		11.4 Ideology
		11.5 Burn-Out?
	Chapter 12 Depravity?
		12.1 Introduction
		12.2 Indiscipline
		12.3 Lust
		12.4 Extravagance and Avarice
		12.5 Cruelty
	Chapter 13 Finance
		13.1 Introduction
		13.2 Problems
			13.2.1 Potential Stress
			13.2.2 Signs of Stress?
		13.3 Solutions
			13.3.1 Introduction
			13.3.2 Income
			13.3.3 Management
			13.3.4 Coin Reform
		13.4 The Legacy of Helius
Part III End
	Chapter 14 Entr'acte: Greece
		14.1 Introduction
		14.2 Greece
		14.3 Philhellenism
		14.4 Ideology
		14.5 Inducements
		14.6 Chronology
		14.7 Helius
		14.8 'Triumph'
	Chapter 15 Fall
		15.1 Introduction
		15.2 The Lull Before the Storm
		15.3 Vindex
		15.4 Galba
		15.5 Macer
		15.6 Verginius Rufus
		15.7 Desertion
		15.8 Death
	Chapter 16 Conclusion
References
Index