Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Vigilant Princeps: Augustan Responses to Fire at Rome
Chapter 2: Destruction and Dynasty: Imperial Cremations, Apocalyptic Anxieties, and Book-Burning in the Early First Century CE
Chapter 3: Sequitur Clades: The Neronian Trajectory into Catastrophe
Chapter 4: From the Ashes: Post-Neronian Rome and Literary Memory
Chapter 5: A Rome Restored? Myth, Memory, and Cycles of Destruction in Trajanic and Hadrianic Rome
Conclusion: Leaders, Conflagration, and Destruction in the Eternal City and Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index