While Rome burned : fire, leadership, and urban disaster in the Roman cultural imagination / Virginia M. Closs.

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"While Rome Burned attends to the intersection of fire, city, and emperor in ancient Rome, tracing the critical role that urban conflagration played as both reality and metaphor in the politics and literature of the early imperial period. Urban fires presented a consistent problem for emperors from...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Closs, Virginia M. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Augustus, > Emperor of Rome, > 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Nero, > Emperor of Rome, > 37-68.
Hadrian, > Emperor of Rome, > 76-138.
Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
Fires > Rome > History.
Fire > Symbolic aspects > Rome.
Fire in literature.
Fire > Symbolic aspects.
Fires.
Rome (Empire)
30 B.C.-284 A.D.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:viii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Fire, leadership, and urban disaster in the Roman cultural imagination
Format: Book
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