Very Select Bibliography on Nero
NB: This will provide you with basic, general titles on the period. More specialized titles and articles dealing with the specific authors, texts, and issues we will be dealing with will be provided as we progress.
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Barrett, Anthony A. Agrippina: Sex, Power and Politics in the Early Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
Bowman, Alan K., Edward Champlin, Andrew Lintott., edd. The Cambridge Ancient History X; The Augustan Empire.2 Cambridge, 1996.
*Bartsch, S. Actors in the audience: theatricality and doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian. Cambridge, MA 1994.
Bergmann, Marianne. Der Koloss Neros, die Domus Aurea und der Mentalitatswandel im Rom der fruhen Kaiserzeit. Mainz: Verlag P. von Zabern, 1994.
*Bowersock, G. W. Fiction as history: Nero to Julian. Berkeley 1994.
Bradley, K. Suetonius’ Life of Nero. An Historical Commentary. Brussels, 1978.
Charles-Picard, G. Augustus and Nero. Translated by L. Ortzen. London 1966.
Cizek, E. Néron, Paris, 1982.
Elsner. J. and J. Masters, edd. Reflections of Nero. Duckworth 1993.
Griffin, M. Seneca. A Philosopher in Politics Oxford 1976.
*_________. Nero. The End of a Dynasty. New Haven 1984 (now published by Routledge).
Grant, M. Nero: Emperor in Revolt. New York, 1970.
Heinz, K. Das Bild Kaiser Neros bei Seneca, Tacitus, Sueton und Cassius Dio. (Diss. Bern) Biel, 1948.
Holland, R. Nero. The Man behind the myth. Stroud: Sutton, 2000.
Jakob-Sonnabend, Waltraud.. Untersuchungen zum Nero-Bild der Spatantike. Hildesheim/New York 1990.
Robichon, J. Néron, ou, La comédie du pouvoir. Paris 1985.
*Rudich, V. Political Dissidence under Nero. Routledge 1993.
_________. Dissidence and literature under Nero: the price of rhetoricization. Routledge, 1997.
Schubert, Christoph. Studien zum Nerobild in der lateinischen Dichtung der Antike. Teubner 1998. [rev. BMCR 99.10.24]
Shotter,
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