Monarchies – new or established – develop an appropriate training for their princes, and an appropriate way for the young men to be presented to their subjects. This article outlines the kind of sporting or artistic activity that modern constitutional monarchies find acceptable in a crown prince, and comparing it with the record of earlier Julio-Claudian princes such as Tiberius and Drusus, or Drusus' son Germanicus: men trained and needed for serious military service on behalf of the now middle-aged emperor. It is against these alternative patterns of behavior that one should measure Nero's evolution from early private indulgence in charioteering and singing to the lyre, and more decorously in poetic composition, to yield to his growing ambition to perform both as driver and singer in public. The art of singing took two forms at Rome; that of singing tragedy, and the creative art of the citharode.
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