Nero Caesar Augustus : emperor of Rome /
"David Shotter looks at the source material - literary, historical and material - on which our judgements of Nero have been based and discusses the reliability of the ancient accounts of his reign in the light of their authors' own priorities. Rather than presenting Nero as a timeless mons...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Harlow, England ; New York :
Pearson Longman,
2008.
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| Summary: | "David Shotter looks at the source material - literary, historical and material - on which our judgements of Nero have been based and discusses the reliability of the ancient accounts of his reign in the light of their authors' own priorities. Rather than presenting Nero as a timeless monster he shows him in the context of first-century Rome - as a player in the development of the Imperial system of government and as a product of the often treacherous and bloody history of the Julian and Claudian families. Nero, he argues was not the madman of popular myth, nor is there any real evidence that he thought of himself as a god."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 257 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-247) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781405824576 1405824573 |