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Index
Acerronia
Acratus, 6.1, nts.1
Acte, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, epi.1, nts.1
Acts of the Apostles, 2.1, nts.1
Aelia Catella
Aelia Paetina
Aeneid (Vergil), 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, epi.1, nts.1
Agamemnon (Seneca)
Agerinus, 4.1, 5.1
Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius, 2.1, 5.1
Agrippina the Younger, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, nts.1
in Acte crisis, 3.1, 3.2
in Aphrodisias statuary, 3.1, 3.2
Augusta title bestowed on, 2.1, nts.1
beauty of, 1.1, 1.2, nts.1, nts.2
Britannicus as threat wielded by, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Britannicus mourned by
Caligula’s persecution and exile of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
chlamys worn by, 2.1, nts.1
Claudius poisoned by, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1
Claudius deified by
Claudius married to, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
on coinage, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, nts.1, nts.2
collapsible boat trap survived by, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
councils of state invaded by, 3.1, 5.1
cremation of
death of, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, nts.1, nts.2
female rivals eliminated by, 2.1, nts.1
first marriage of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, epi.1
German bodyguards of, 4.1, nts.1
German town named for
as god’s widow and priestess, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2
impotentia of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
incestuous relationship initiated by, 4.1, nts.1
last request of, 4.1, nts.1
lineage of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Marcus Junius Silanus poisoned by, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, nts.1
Narcissus assassinated by, 3.1, 6.1, nts.1
Narcissus humbled by, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Nero born to, 1.1, nts.1
Nero’s arranged murder of, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, nts.1, nts.2
Nero’s challenging of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, nts.1
Nero’s prodigality and
as optima mater (“best of mothers”)
Pallas elevated by, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, nts.1
Plautus conspiracy ascribed to, 4.1, 5.1
Poppaea and
potential second son of, 4.1, nts.1
power acquired by, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2
Praetorian support of, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, nts.1
second marriage of, 1.1, 1.2, nts.1
self-defense speech of
Seneca hired by
Seneca’s friendship with, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, nts.1
Seneca’s recall arranged by, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 4.2, nts.1, nts.2
sense of humor lacked by
sexual comportment attributed to, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, nts.1, nts.2
tragic dramas and
as wicked stepmother, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, nts.1
Agrippina’s Tomb
Agrippina the Elder, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Ahenobarbus, Domitius, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, epi.1
Alexander the Great, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Callisthenes murdered by, 6.1, nts.1
Americas, predicted discovery of, 2.1, nts.1
Anicetus, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1, nts.2
Annaeus clan, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1
as equites (“knights”), 1.1, 1.2, nts.1
Antistius Sosianus, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Antium, 6.1, 6.2
Antonia (daughter of Claudius), 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, epi.1
Aphrodisias statuary, 3.1, 3.2
Apicius, gourmandise of, 1.1, nts.1
Apocolocyntosis (Seneca), 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3, nts.4, nts.5
Aristotle, 4.1, 4.2, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
Armenia
uprising in
Arrian of Nicomedia
asceticism, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1
self-exposure in
of Seneca, 1.1, 4.1, 7.1
Asper, Sulpicius
astrology, 2.1, 6.1
Atellan farces
Athens, 1.1, 5.1, nts.1, nts.2
Attalus, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, nts.1
“Attis or the Bacchantes” (Nero)
Augustiani cheering corps, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
Augustus Caesar, Emperor of Rome, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
bloodline of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2
Cinna conspiracy and, 4.1, nts.1
deification of, 3.1, 3.2
Ovid’s plaintive poems to, 1.1, nts.1
retirements allowed by
Vergil’s verse addressed to
Baiae, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, nts.1, nts.2
Balbillus
Bassus, Aufidius, nts.6
Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1
Britain, itr.1, 1.1, 3.1
Boudicca’s revolt in, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1
moneylending in, 4.1, 5.1, nts.1, nts.2
Roman invasion of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, nts.1
Britannicus, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, nts.1, nts.2
on coinage, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
coming-of-age birthday of
cremation of
as divi filius
hasty interment of
Locusta’s poisoning of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, nts.1
Nero’s murder of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1, nts.2
Nero’s seniority over, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, nts.1
pluck displayed by, 2.1, 3.1
posthumous property distribution of, 3.1, 5.1
posthumous reverence for
Seneca’s support of, 2.1, nts.1
statues of, 3.1, 3.2
in succession rivalry, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, nts.1, nts.2
as threat wielded by Agrippina, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Titus as friend of, 3.1, 3.2
Brutus
Stoic commemoration of, 6.1, nts.1
as ideological symbol
Burrus, Afranius, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
death of, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
divorcing Octavia opposed by, 5.1, nts.1
Nero’s mistrust of, 4.1, nts.1
Seneca’s alliance wi
th, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3, nts.4, nts.5
Sulla conspiracy linked to
Caligula (Gaius Germanicus Caesar), Emperor of Rome, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3, nts.4
accession of
enemy lists of
hair loss of
Lepidus conspiracy alleged by
madness of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, nts.1
Praetorians’ murder of, 1.1, 1.2
premonitory dream of, 1.1, nts.1
Sejanus conspiracy and
senators victimized by, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1
Seneca’s speeches criticized by
sisters persecuted and exiled by, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Callisthenes, 6.1, nts.1
Cambyses, King of Persia
Capito, Cossutianus, 6.1, 6.2
Thrasea denounced by
Caratacus
Cassius
celebrated birthday of, 6.1, nts.1
as ideological symbol
Cato, Marcus Porcius, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1
as Stoic symbol of integrity, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, epi.1
suicide of, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1, nts.1
Catus, Decianus
Celer, Egnatius
Ceres festival
chariot racing, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, nts.1, nts.2
chlamys, 2.1, nts.1
Christianity, 1.1, 4.1
A.D. 64 great fire blamed on, 6.1, nts.1
Paul and, 2.1, 6.1
Seneca’s imagined adherence to, 2.1, nts.1
Cicero, 1.1, nts.1
Cimber, Tillius, nts.7
Cinna, Lucius, 4.1, nts.1
Circus Maximus, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1
Civil War (De Bello Civili) (Lucan), 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, nts.1
Claudia (daughter of Nero), 6.1, 6.2
Claudius, Emperor of Rome, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
accession of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.1
Agrippina as wife of, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
Augustus’ bloodline and, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1
Britain invaded by, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, nts.1
closed-door trials held by, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
coinage of, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, nts.1
death of, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 5.1, nts.1, nts.2
deification of, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, nts.1
Fucine Lake project of, 2.1, nts.1
funeral of
Greek freedmen staff of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, nts.1
murders committed by, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
mushrooms in death of, 2.1, nts.1
Nero adopted by, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, nts.1, nts.2
official will of, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Seneca exiled by, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, nts.1
succession rivalry and, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, nts.1, nts.2
Suillius as delator under
temples dedicated to, 3.1, 5.1, nts.1, nts.2
Clemens, Salienus
Cleonicus
Cluvius Rufus, 4.1, 7.1
coinage, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, nts.1
of Claudius, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, nts.1
jugate profiles on, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, nts.1
of Nero, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne)
Colosseum, 5.1, nts.1
Colossus Neronis, 6.1, 7.1, nts.1
Columbus, Christopher, 2.1, nts.1
comet portents, 5.1, 6.1
Consolation to Helvia (Seneca), 1.1, 3.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3, nts.4
Consolation to Marcia (Seneca), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 6.2, nts.1, nts.2
Consolation to Polybius (Seneca), 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
Corbulo, Domitius
Cordus, Cremutius
Corinthians, Paul’s Epistles to, 2.1, nts.1
Crispinus, Rufrius
Crispus, Passienus 1.1, 1.2, nts.1
cyclical destruction, apocalyptic, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1, nts.2
Cynicism, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, epi.1, epi.2, nts.1
Datus, 5.1, nts.1
De Bello Civili (Civil War) (Lucan), 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, nts.1
De Beneficiis (“On Benefits”) (Seneca), 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3, nts.4
De Brevitate Vitae (“On the Shortness of Life”) (Seneca), 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, nts.1
De Clementia (“On Mercy”) (Seneca), 1.1, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, nts.1, nts.2
Nero in, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, nts.1
De Incendio Urbis (“On the Burning of the City”) (Lucan)
De Ira (“On Anger”) (Seneca), 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, epi.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3, nts.4
executive restraint explained in, 3.1, 4.1, nts.1
Medea and
and Nero’s inaugural Senate speech
spiritual cost of despotism in
delators, 4.1, 6.1, epi.1
Demetrius of Sunium, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, epi.1, nts.1
De Otio (“On nonparticipation”)
De Vita Beata (“On the Happy Life”) (Seneca), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, epi.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3, nts.4
wealth as theme in
Dio, Cassius, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1, epi.1
Diogenes the Cynic
Domenico da Peccioli, nts.1
Domitian, Emperor of Rome, 3.1, epi.1, epi.2, nts.1
Domus Aurea, 6.1, 7.1
Domus Transitoria, 6.1, 6.2
Doryphorus
Drusilla (sister of Caligula)
Drusilla (wife of Felix)
Drusus II, Emperor of Rome, nts.3
earthquakes, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, nts.1
Egypt, 1.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2
“Egyptian, the,” Jewish revolt led by, 2.1, 2.2, nts.1
Epaphroditus, epi.1, epi.2
Epicharis, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1
torture and suicide of
Epictetus, epi.1, nts.1
equites (“knights”), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, nts.1, nts.2
Euripides, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1
Felix, Antonius, 2.1, 2.2
fires, urban
A.D. 64, of Rome, itr.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, nts.1
Flavus, Subrius, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Fucine Lake project, 2.1, nts.1
Galba, Emperor of Rome, epi.1, nts.1, nts.2
Seneca’s brother Novatus adopted by, see Novatus, Annaeus Lucius as Gallio
Gallus, Crepereius
Gaul
Georgics (Vergil)
Germanicus Caesar, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 7.1, nts.1
graffiti, 5.1, nts.1
Pompeiian
Greeks, ancient, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 6.2, nts.1, nts.2
of Achaea, 2.1, 2.2
art stolen from
Epictetus and
Stoics, 1.1, 1.2
theatrical entertainments of, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, epi.1
Griffin, Miriam, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1
Gyges’ ring, story of
Halotus, 2.1, nts.1
Harpagus, story of
Helvidius Priscus, 7.1, epi.1, nts.1
Herculaneum, 6.1, 6.2
Herculeius
Herodotus, nts.1
Hughes, Robert, itr.1, nts.1
impotentia (lack of restraint), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
Institutio Oratoria (Quintilian), epi.1, epi.2, nts.1
Jerusalem, 1.1, 2.1
Temple in, 2.1, 2.2
Jewish revolts, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, nts.1
Jews, 1.1, 2.1
Jonathan (rabbi)
Josephus
Judaea
Julia (daughter of Augustus)
Julian clan, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, epi.1, epi.2, nts.1
Julian law, 3.1,
nts.1
Julia Silana, 4.1, 4.2, nts.1
Julius Caesar, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.1, 7.1, nts.1
assassination of, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1
Junii Silani clan, 1.1, 3.1
Jupiter the Liberator, libations to, 7.1, 7.2
Juvenal, 4.1, epi.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
Juvenalia
Lateranus, Plautius, 7.1, 7.2
Laudes Neronis (“Praises of Nero”) (Lucan), 5.1, 7.1
Lepidus conspiracy, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, nts.1
Letters to Lucilius (Seneca), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3, nts.4, nts.5, nts.6, nts.7
author’s style as theme in
death theme in, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2
moral reflections in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, nts.1
rulers vs. philosophers in
Levick, Barbara
Liberalis, Aebutius, 6.1, nts.1
lictors
Lives of the Caesars (Suetonius)
Livia (wife of Augustus), 3.1, 7.1, nts.1
as god’s widow
Livilla (sister of Caligula)
Caligula’s persecution and exile of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
second exile and death of
Seneca’s alleged adultery with, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1
Locusta “the Crayfish,” 2.1, 3.1, 6.1
Britannicus poisoned by, 3.1, nts.1
poison for Nero provided by
Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus), itr.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
Nero’s artistic jealousy of, 6.1, 7.1, nts.1, nts.2
in Pisonian conspiracy, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, nts.1
poetry competition won by, 5.1, nts.1
poetry of, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
as quaestor
Seneca’s affection for, 5.1, 6.1
suicide of
Lucilius, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 6.2, nts.1
otium (political nonparticipation) of
torture endured by, 6.1, nts.1
Ludi Maximi
Lugdunum, fire in
Macaulay, Lord, 1.1, nts.1
maiestas (“treason”) charge, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2
Marcelinus, Tullius, nts.6
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
Marcus Lucanus, see Lucan
Medea (Euripides)
Medea (Seneca), 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, nts.1, nts.2
meditatio mortis (“Rehearsal for death”)
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Mela, Annaeus (younger brother of Seneca), 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1
suicide of