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While Rome burned : fire, leadership, and urban disaster in the Roman cultural imagination /

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While Rome Burned attends to the intersection of fire, city and emperor in ancient Rome, tracing the critical role that urban conflagration played as both reality and metaphor in the politics and literature of the early imperial period. Urban fires presented a consistent problem for emperors from Au...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Closs, Virginia M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Augustus, > Emperor of Rome, > 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Nero, > Emperor of Rome, > 37-68.
Hadrian, > Emperor of Rome, > 76-138.
Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
Fires > Rome > History.
Fire > Symbolic aspects > Rome.
Fire in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • The Vigilant Princeps: Augustan Responses to Fire at Rome
  • Destruction and Dynasty: Imperial Cremations, Apocalyptic Anxieties, and Book-Burning in the Early First Century CE
  • Sequitur Clades: The Neronian Trajectory into Catastrophe
  • From the Ashes: Post-Neronian Rome and Literary Memory
  • A Rome Restored?: Myth, Memory, and Cycles of Destruction in Trajanic and Hadrianic Rome
  • Leaders, Conflagration, and Destruction in the Eternal City and Beyond.