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Author:

Shotter, D. C. A. (David Colin Arthur)

Title:

Nero Caesar Augustus : emperor of Rome / David Shotter.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Pearson Longman,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xiv, 257 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Nero,--Emperor of Rome,--37-68.
Emperors--Rome--Biography.
Rome--History--Nero, 54-68.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-247) and index.

Contents:

The political background to the reign of Nero -- Nero's family -- The path to power --The expectation and hope of all the world -- The end of the beginning -- Nero and the empire -- The imperial builder -- The beginning of the end -- Rebellion and the fall of Nero.

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."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

1405824573
9781405824576

OCLC:

(OCoLC)226213016

LCCN:

2008017472

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)