Age of Nero

1.5 credits · Undergraduate

Explores Nero’s decadent age, which tried and failed to rival that of the first Roman emperor, Augustus. Topics may include: literary authors such as Seneca, Lucan, Persius and Petronius; Nero's extravagant building projects; his reputation, ancient and modern, as the artist-emperor who fiddled while Rome burned and as the tyrant who persecuted Christians.