Introduction: the Neronian (literary) "Renaissance" / Martin T Dinter -- The performing prince / Elaine Fantham -- Biographies of Nero / Donna W Hurley -- Nero the imperial misfit: Philhellenism in a rich man's world / Sigrid Mratschek -- The Empire in the age of Nero / Myles Lavan -- Apollo in arms: Nero at the frontier / David Braund -- The Imperial household in the age of Nero / Michael J Mordine -- Religion / Darja Šterbenc Erker -- Neronian philosophy / Jenny Bryan -- Seneca, Apocolocyntosis / Christopher L Whitton -- The Carmina einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues / John Henderson -- Seneca's philosophical writings: Naturales quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae morales / Jonathan Mannering -- Senecan tragedy / Emma Buckley -- Lucan's Bellum civile / Philip Hardie -- Petronius' Satyrica / Tom Murgatroyd -- Persius / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols -- Columella, De re rustica / Christiane Reitz -- Literature of the world: Seneca's Natural questions and Pliny's Natural history / Aude Doody -- Greek literature under Nero / Dirk Uwe Hansen -- Buildings of an Emperor : how Nero transformed Rome / Heinz-Jürgen Beste, Henner von Hesberg -- Portraits of an Emperor : Nero, the sun, and Roman otium / Marianne Bergmann -- Neronian wall-painting: a matter of perspective / Katharina Lorenz -- Nero in Jewish and Christian tradition from the first century to the Reformation / Harry O Maier -- Haec monstra edidit: translating Lucan in the early seventeenth century / Yanick Maes -- Haunted by horror: the ghost of Seneca in Renaissance drama / Susanna Braund -- "Fantasies so varied and bizarre": the Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the "grotesque" / Michael Squire -- Nachwort: Nero from zero to hero / Miriam Griffin -- Index