TY - BOOK AU - Barrett,Anthony A. TI - Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty T2 - Turning Points in Ancient History SN - 9780691208503 AV - DG285.3 .B37 2020 U1 - 937.6307 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Great Fire, Rome, Italy, 64 KW - Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68 KW - Rome-History-Nero, 54-68 KW - HISTORY / Ancient / Rome KW - bisacsh KW - Aventine KW - Christians KW - Circus Maximus KW - Dio KW - Golden House KW - Great London Fire KW - New Rome KW - Palatine KW - Pilate KW - Roman KW - Suetonius KW - Tacitus KW - ancient fires KW - architecture KW - arson KW - coliseum KW - conspiracy KW - crucifixions KW - economy KW - empire KW - fiddling while Rome burns KW - history of fire KW - lake KW - persecution KW - procurator KW - urban fires N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Series Editor’s Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Timeline --; Prologue --; I Introduction --; THE FIRE --; II Fires in Ancient Rome --; III The Great Fire --; IV Responsibility --; THE AFTERMATH --; V The Christians and the Great Fire --; VI The New Rome --; VII The Significance of the Great Fire --; Epilogue. The Great Fire as an Enduring Cultural Phenomenon --; Principal Sources: Tacitus, Suetonius, and Dio --; Notes --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome’s Great Fire—and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman EmpireAccording to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, 64 AD and fiddled while the city burned. It’s a story that has been told for more than two millennia—and it’s likely that almost none of it is true. In Rome Is Burning, distinguished Roman historian Anthony Barrett sets the record straight, providing a comprehensive and authoritative account of the Great Fire of Rome, its immediate aftermath, and its damaging longterm consequences for the Roman world. Drawing on remarkable new archaeological discoveries and sifting through all the literary evidence, he tells what is known about what actually happened—and argues that the disaster was a turning point in Roman history, one that ultimately led to the fall of Nero and the end of the dynasty that began with Julius Caesar.Rome Is Burning tells how the fire destroyed much of the city and threw the population into panic. It describes how it also destroyed Nero’s golden image and provoked a financial crisis and currency devaluation that made a permanent impact on the Roman economy. Most importantly, the book surveys, and includes many photographs of, recent archaeological evidence that shows visible traces of the fire’s destruction. Finally, the book describes the fire’s continuing afterlife in literature, opera, ballet, and film.A richly detailed and scrupulously factual narrative of an event that has always been shrouded in myth, Rome Is Burning promises to become the standard account of the Great Fire of Rome for our time UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691208503?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691208503 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691208503/original ER -