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Nero

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Harvard University Press, 30/09/2005 - 346 páginas

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.

  

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Champlin has written not a biography of Nero but rather a multifaceted discussion of the emperor's foibles and personae. In parts repetitious, the book thoroughly enjoys Nero's peccadillos but also ... Ler resenha completa

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This is a difficult book to review, because I believe that a certain audience will enjoy it, where others may not. As others have commented, this book is not a biography nor does it have a standard ...

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Roman Emperors DIR Nero
Before his death, Claudius, though he already had a son Britannicus, had adopted Lucius, who changed his name to Nero Claudius Caesar, ...
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Nero Reconsidered
Nero Reconsidered Journal article by Edward Champlin; New England Review, Vol. 19, 1998. Read Nero Reconsidered at Questia library.
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Nero | Canadian Journal of History | Find Articles at BNET.com
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Classics professor Edward Champlin argues that Nero’s reputation was ... To modern readers, the first-century Roman emperor Nero is the archetype of a ...
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Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
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Sobre o autor (2005)

Edward Champlin is Professor of Classics and Cotsen Professor of Humanities, Princeton University.

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TítuloNero
AutorEdward Champlin
Ediçãoilustrada, reimpressão
EditoraHarvard University Press, 2005
ISBN0674029364, 9780674029361
Num. págs.346 páginas
  
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