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072 7 _aHIS002020
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082 0 4 _a937.6307
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBarrett, Anthony A.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aRome Is Burning :
_bNero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty /
_cAnthony A. Barrett.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (368 p.) :
_b51 b/w illus. 1 table. 1 map.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aTurning Points in Ancient History ;
_v9
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tSeries Editor’s Foreword --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tTimeline --
_tPrologue --
_tI Introduction --
_tTHE FIRE --
_tII Fires in Ancient Rome --
_tIII The Great Fire --
_tIV Responsibility --
_tTHE AFTERMATH --
_tV The Christians and the Great Fire --
_tVI The New Rome --
_tVII The Significance of the Great Fire --
_tEpilogue. The Great Fire as an Enduring Cultural Phenomenon --
_tPrincipal Sources: Tacitus, Suetonius, and Dio --
_tNotes --
_tGlossary --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aDrawing 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aGreat Fire, Rome, Italy, 64.
650 0 _aNero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68.
650 0 _aRome-History-Nero, 54-68.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
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653 _aAventine.
653 _aChristians.
653 _aCircus Maximus.
653 _aDio.
653 _aGolden House.
653 _aGreat London Fire.
653 _aNew Rome.
653 _aPalatine.
653 _aPilate.
653 _aRoman.
653 _aSuetonius.
653 _aTacitus.
653 _aancient fires.
653 _aarchitecture.
653 _aarson.
653 _acoliseum.
653 _aconspiracy.
653 _acrucifixions.
653 _aeconomy.
653 _aempire.
653 _afiddling while Rome burns.
653 _ahistory of fire.
653 _alake.
653 _apersecution.
653 _aprocurator.
653 _aurban fires.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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