Greek Literature Under Nero

Abstract

Whether his love of Greek culture was merely an attitude or indeed a heartfelt sympathy, one would expect Greek literature to have flourished under Nero. Some of the far-reaching and important developments within European literary history began shortly before his reign. One of the last great Stoic philosophers, Musonius Rufus, was born around the year AD 30, and his teachings were written down shortly after Nero's death by Musonius' pupils. The chapter begins with a discussion of two works, although one can by no means be certain in attributing them to the Neronian era: the anonymous treatise On the Sublime, transmitted under the name of Longinus, and Incredible Things Beyond Thule. There was at least one scientific mind in the Neronian Age whose findings prepared the ground for many a modern invention: the engineer Hero of Alexandria. Of his opus magnum, the Mechanica, only an Arabic translation is still extant.

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