Champlin racconta Nerone: un imperatore consapevole di sé e del suo ruolo, un esteta spregiudicato dedito alla vita come a un'opera d’arte.Champlin rivela un Nerone artista della propria immagine, inventore del proprio mito. E da una vicenda grandiosa e orrenda emerge un lucido progetto per l'eternità.Andrea GiardinaUna stimolante ‘psicografia’. Nerone, dice Champlin, aveva forse scoperto l'arcano del potere: tutto è comunicazione, sotto la recita niente.Mau...

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 pre...

A radical new portrait of the infamous Roman emperorRome’s second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE–CE 37), has traditionally been seen as a villainous hypocrite—treacherous, grasping, vindictive, and depraved. But in Tiberius and His Age, Edward Champlin draws on vast and diverse evidence to show that Tiberius was—and was seen by contemporaries to be—recognizably human and far more complex than the monster of the hostile tradition that began with Tacitus and Suet...