Isn’t it ﬁne to teach them that all that hasn’t been of the slightest use? Granted that they have been successful for a few years. Isn’t it splendid to think that we can show them they haven’t succeeded? They have smashed his statues into splinters, erased his name from all the inscriptions they even replaced his head on that huge statue in Rome with the peasant head of old Vespasian. how much easier our belief in Nero made life for us in the old days? And can you remember the paralysis, the numbness that seized the whole world when Nero died? Didn’t you feel as if the world had grown bare and colourless all of a sudden? Those people on the Palatine have tried to steal our Nero from us, from you and me.

Maps Nero’s Greece Nero’s Italy Nero’s Rome Nero’s Rome: Central Area Nero’s Rome: Golden House and Triumphal Routeġ The Once and Future King Can you remember, Acte. Portraits Grafﬁto portrait of Nero, from the Domus Tiberiana Apotheosis of Nero, based on Nero’s portrait of ad 59–64 Copy of Nero’s ofﬁcial portrait, ad 55–59 Copy of Nero’s ofﬁcial portrait, ad 59–64 Copy of Nero’s ofﬁcial portrait, ad 64–68 Note on Sources Bibliography Notes Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Index The Once and Future King Stories and Histories Portrait of the Artist The Power of Myth Shining Apollo Saturnalia One House Triumph Epilogue

Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Champlin, Edward, 1948– Nero / Edward Champlin. T h e b e lknap pres s of h arvard univer s it y pres s Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2003Ĭopyright © 2003 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Title page: Grafﬁto portrait of Nero, from the Domus Tiberiana on the Palatine.

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