A Companion to the Neronian Age

Emma Buckley is Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies at the University of St. Andrews. She has published on post-Virgilian epic, Maffeo Vegio and Christopher Marlowe. She is currently writing a monograph on Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. Martin T. Dinter is Lecturer in Latin Literature and Language at King’s College London. He has published articles on Virgil, Horace, Lucan and Valerius Flaccus and is the author of a forthcoming monograph on Lucan’s Bellum Civile.

List of Illustrations xi

Notes on Contributors xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction: The Neronian (Literary) ‘‘Renaissance’’ 1
Martin T. Dinter

Part I Nero

1 The Performing Prince 17
Elaine Fantham

2 Biographies of Nero 29
Donna W. Hurley

3 Nero the Imperial Misfit: Philhellenism in a Rich Man’s World 45
Sigrid Mratschek

Part II the Empire

4 The Empire in the Age of Nero 65
Myles Lavan

5 Apollo in Arms: Nero at the Frontier 83
David Braund

6 Domus Neroniana: The Imperial Household in the Age of Nero 102
Michael J. Mordine

7 Religion 118
Darja Šterbenc Erker

8 Neronian Philosophy 134
Jenny Bryan

Part III Literature, Art, and Architecture

9 Seneca, Apocolocyntosis 151
Christopher L. Whitton

10 The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus’ Eclogues 170
John Henderson

11 Seneca’s Philosophical Writings: Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales 188
Jonathan Mannering

12 Senecan Tragedy 204
Emma Buckley

13 Lucan’s Bellum Civile 225
Philip Hardie

14 Petronius’ Satyrica 241
Tom Murgatroyd

15 Persius 258
Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols

16 Columella, De Re Rustica 275
Christiane Reitz

17 Literature of the World: Seneca’s Natural Questions and Pliny’s Natural History 288
Aude Doody

18 Greek Literature Under Nero 302
Dirk Uwe Hansen

19 Buildings of an Emperor – How Nero Transformed Rome 314
Heinz-Jürgen Beste and Henner von Hesberg

20 Portraits of an Emperor – Nero, the Sun, and Roman Otium 332
Marianne Bergmann

21 Neronian Wall-Painting. A Matter of Perspective 363
Katharina Lorenz

Part IV Reception

22 Nero in Jewish and Christian Tradition from the First Century to the Reformation 385
Harry O. Maier

23 Haec Monstra Edidit. Translating Lucan in the Early Seventeenth Century 405
Yanick Maes

24 Haunted by Horror: The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama 425
Susanna Braund

25 ‘‘Fantasies so Varied and Bizarre’’: The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the ‘‘Grotesque’’ 444
Michael Squire

Epilogue

26 Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero 467
Miriam Griffin

Index 481