Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero

Abstract

This chapter explores the recent rehabilitation of Nero among classical scholars, particularly among Anglophone ones, which the author explains in terms of certain fashions current in classical scholarship. Even serious activities like medicine and scholarship are subject to changes of fashion: interests shift, preoccupations change, and different questions are asked. Uncovering some of the causes of the recent change of heart about Nero, the chapter explores these same interests and preoccupations when they appear, as they do appear, in our ancient historical sources on him, and then compares our own current impression of the emperor with the impression that emerges from the ancient treatment of these same themes. Tacitus' treatment of Nero, in particular, as tyrant and showman, is discussed finally in the chapter.

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