Main entry:

Griffin, Miriam T. (Miriam Tamara)

Title & Author:

Nero : the end of a dynasty / Miriam T. Griffin.

Publication:

London : B.T. Batsford, 1984.

Description:

320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Batsford studies in archaeology

Notes:
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-310).
The making of a Princeps. Nero's paternal clan ; the ambitions of Agrippina -- Part I: Nero's principate. The new ruler ; The golden age ; Partners in power -- The turning point. Signs of stress in the good years ; Ideological tension ; Attitudes to Claudius -- The descent into tyranny. The new advisers ; Personality and principate ; Bread and circuses ; First without equals -- The tyranny of art. Numismatic innovations ; Architecture and town planning -- The artistic tyrant. The literary renaissance ; Neronian patronage ; The theory of a literary opposition ; The emperor on the stage -- "What an artist dies with me". The Pisonian conspiracy ; The persecution of the Stoics ; The Vinician conspiracy -- Part II: Post-mortem on the fall of Nero. Why did it happen? ; The problem of the succession. Nero's rivals -- The problem of finance. The Augustan pattern ; The magnificent monarch -- The temptation of philhellenism. Nero's Greek tastes ; Practical benefits ; Family and imperial history ; The notion of divine monarchy -- The military image of the Princeps. Neronian foreign policy ; The pursuit of glory.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0713444649
9780713444643

Subject:

Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68.
Nerón, Emperador de Roma Biografías
Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68 Psychology.
Emperors Rome Biography.
Empereurs Rome Biographies.
Emperors
Emperors Rome.
Rome History Nero, 54-68.
Rome Histoire 54-68 (Néron)
Roma Historia 54-68 (Nerón)
Rome (Empire)
Ancient Rome Political events Role of Nero, Emperor of Rome

Form/genre:

Biography
History
Biographies

Added entries:

Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68.
Batsford studies in archaeology.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 88081
Call No.: ID:85-B12589
Status: Available