Nero remains an enigma. The Roman Emperor (54–68 AD) who murdered his mother, who is said to have incinerated Rome, who was the first to widely persecute Christians, who appeared in public as charioteer, poet and stage actor, and who finally, in solitude, had to take his own life, still causes considerable problems to academic research. This paper opens up a new approach towards this princeps. Based on his journey to Greece in the year 66/67, the sources about Nero's acts are evaluated in relation to the limiting factors and freedom of action available to a princeps of the early Roman Empire. Allusions from antique historiography to Nero's unique self-image as an artist – often the object of ridicule, but nevertheless affirmed through archaeological and numismatic evidence – are consistently taken into consideration and thought through. As a result, a sovereign is revealed who defined himself less as a princeps than as an artist, who aspired to a mythical quality of this role and only did not reach his goal because he was not, at the end of his rule, able to cope with the increasing momentum of the developments around him.
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Requires Authentication Unlicensed„Qualis artifex pereo” – Neros letzte Reise (“Qualis artifex pereo” – Nero's Last Journey)LicensedSeptember 25, 2009
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedKleinstaaten in der Frühen Neuzeit: Konturen eines Forschungsfeldes (Small States in Early Modern Times: Contours of a Field of Research)LicensedSeptember 25, 2009
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedDie moderne Staatsbürgerschaft und ihre Grenzen: Anmerkungen zu T. H. Marshalls „citizenship”-Konzept (Modern Citizenship and its Limits: Notes on T. H. Marshall's Concept of Citizenship)LicensedSeptember 25, 2009
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Requires Authentication Unlicensed„Merkurianer” im Land der „Apollonier” oder die Rolle der Juden in der Moderne (“Mercurians” in the Land of the “Apollonians” or the Role of Jews in Modernity)LicensedSeptember 25, 2009
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedAllgemeines (Miscellaneous)LicensedSeptember 25, 2009
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedAltertum (Antique)LicensedSeptember 25, 2009
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedMittelalter (Medieval History)LicensedSeptember 25, 2009
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedFrühe Neuzeit (Early Modern History)LicensedSeptember 25, 2009
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Requires Authentication Unlicensed19./20. Jahrhundert (Modern History)LicensedSeptember 25, 2009
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Requires Authentication UnlicensedEingegangene Bücher (Received Books)LicensedSeptember 25, 2009