Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond

John Boardman

Andrew Lintott

Michael Whitby

Peter Garnsey

Averil Cameron

Alan K. Bowman

Bryan Ward-Perkins

Edward Champlin

Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards

Cyril John Gadd

David Malcolm Lewis

Frank William Walbank

A. E. Astin

John Anthony Crook

Elizabeth Rawson

Dominic Rathbone

J. A. Crook

This volume of 'The Cambridge Ancient History' embraces the wide range of approaches and scholarships which have in recent decades transformed our view of late antiquity.

The Cambridge Ancient History

Este libro indaga con erudici n acad mica y talento literario en el porqu de esta fascinaci n por un emperador romano cuyos actos -extravagantes, de ordinario escandalosos y a menudo repulsivos- simbolizan la decadencia de Roma, y cuyo retorno, sin embargo, siempre se aguard en los siglos posteriores a su muerte con una mezcla de esperanza y miedo. En una revisi n del relato hist rico el experto Edward Champlin expone la l gica que animaba la teatralidad exacerbada de los gestos de Ner n, y que fuentes hostiles e interesadas unidas a la imaginaci n popular aprovecharon Para eternizar la imagen de un Ner n loco y tir nico.

Neron

"Without seeking to rehabilitate the historical monster, Champlin renders Nero more intelligible by illuminating the motives behind his theatrical gestures, and revealing the artist who thought of himself as a heroic figure." "Nero is a reconception of a historical account that extends back to Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio."--BOOK JACKET.

Nero

Andrew William Lintott

Over the past half century The Cambridge Ancient History has established itself as a definitive work of reference. The original edition was published in twelve text volumes between 1924 and 1939. Publication of the new edition began in 1970. Every volume of the old edition has been totally re-thought and re-written with new text, maps, illustrations and bibliographies. Some volumes have had to be expanded into two or more parts and the series has been extended by two extra volumes (XIII and XIV) to cover events up to AD 600, bringing the total number of volumes in the set to fourteen. Existing plates to the volumes are available separately. *Profusely illustrated with maps, drawings and tables. *Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the history of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East from prehistoric times to AD 600 by an international cast of editors and contributors.

Cambridge University Press

Simon Hornblower

Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art and Fellow John Boardman

Student of Christ Church and Professor of History D M Lewis

D. M. Lewis

M. Ostwald

Peter Gamsey

The Roman emperor Nero is remembered by history as the vain and immoral monster who fiddled while Rome burned. Edward Champlin reinterprets Nero's enormities on their own terms, as the self-conscious performances of an imperial actor with a formidable grasp of Roman history and mythology and a canny sense of his audience. Nero murdered his younger brother and rival to the throne, probably at his mother's prompting. He then murdered his mother, with whom he may have slept. He killed his pregnant wife in a fit of rage, then castrated and married a young freedman because he resembled her. He mounted the public stage to act a hero driven mad or a woman giving birth, and raced a ten-horse chariot in the Olympic games. He probably instigated the burning of Rome, for which he then ordered the spectacular punishment of Christians, many of whom were burned as human torches to light up his gardens at night. Without seeking to rehabilitate the historical monster, Champlin renders Nero more vividly intelligible by illuminating the motives behind his theatrical gestures, and revealing the artist who thought of himself as a heroic figure. Nero is a brilliant reconception of a historical account that extends back to Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio. The effortless style and artful construction of the book will engage any reader drawn to its intrinsically fascinating subject.

Professor of Classics and Cotsen Professor of Humanities Edward Champlin

This is a study of a man who was the presiding genius of Latin letters in the second century, the leading orator and lawyer of his day, a prominent senator and consul, the close friend of four emperors and the teacher of two, including the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. It is a history that tells as much about the age as the man. The book begins in Roman North Africa, with an account of Fronto's family and education and the province's influence on his career. After a brief glance at his Italian milieu, Champlin examines Fronto's letters for what they reveal about Fronto and about literary life in the second century. Next come portrayals of Fronto as lawyer, as senator, and as courtier--chapters in Fronto's life that yield a full picture of Antonine society. A final chapter discusses what Marcus Aurelius learned from the orator. The fragmentary nature of Fronto's letters has seriously hampered their use as a historical source. By close analysis of many of the letters and by the deployment of formidable prosopographical skills, Champlin has coaxed information out of this rich material, and he weaves it into a clear social history.

Fronto and Antonine Rome

Edward Champlin

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