CHRISTINE WALDE (Hrsg. unter Mitarbeit von Michaela HELLMICH, Andreas LENZ und Christian STOFFEL), Neros Wirklichkeiten. Zur Rezeption einer umstrittenen Gestalt, VML Vlg Marie Leidorf, Rahden/Westfalen 2013, E. 49,80 (ISBN 978-3-86757-477-8).

1. Christine Walde (Mainz): Einleitung – Spurensuche: Alma Johanna Koenigs Nero in ihrem Roman Der jugendliche Gott (1942): 1
2. Dennis Pausch (Gießen): Kaiser, Künstler, Kitharöde. Das Bild Neros bei Sueton: 45
3. Helmut Seng (Frankfurt a.M./Konstanz): Tiberius und Nero: 81
4. Sven Günther (Mainz/Yokohama): res publica oder res popularis?  Die steuerpolitischen Maßnahmen des “schlechten” Kaisers Nero zwischen Haushaltsraison und Volksfreundlichkeit: 105
5. Detlev Kreikenbom (Mainz): Nero-Bildnisse zwischen Winckelmann und Bernoulli: 129
6. Renate Bol (Mainz): Nero in Olympia: Statuenehrungen für den neuen Hoffnungsträger: 157
7. Paolo Esposito (Salerno): Nerone in Lucano e nell’esegesi lucanea: 197
8. Joanna Rostropowicz (Opole): The portrait of Nero in the novel Rome in the Reign of Nero by J.I. Kraszewski: 217
9. Lisa Sannicandro (Padova): Ah! Ben dicea quel grido: Io sono Oreste! – Arrigo Boitos Nerone: 235
10. Patrick Schollmeyer (Mainz): Wahnmochings violetter Ringelnero: Alfred Schuler und der Kaiser: 255
11. Achim Lenz (Essen/Mastrils): Nero, das Monster auf der Bühne. Zu Martin Walsers Stück Nero lässt grüßen: 273
12. Yanick Maes (Ghent): Nero, NERO, Neronian Literature: 287
12. Nancy Shumate (Smith College, Northampton Mass.): Nero Redivivus: Nero, George W. Bush, and the “Society of the Spectacle”: 339
Register: 351
English Summary: 355

An introduction by the editor is followed by thirteen academic papers. These are entitled: Search for clues – Alma Johanna Koenig’s Nero in her novel Der jugendliche Gott of 1942/47 [Walde], emperor, artist, citharoede: Nero’s image in Suetonius [Pausch], Tiberius and Nero [Seng], Res publica or Res popularis? The “bad” emperor Nero’s fiscal policy between reason of budget and popular politics [Günther], images of Nero between Winckelmann and Bernoulli [Kreikenbom], Nero in Olympia: statues of honour for the new “great white hope” [Bol], Nero in Lucan and in the exegeses of Lucan [Esposito], Nero’s portrait in J. I Kraszewski’s novel Rome in the Reign of Nero [Rostropowicz], Ah! Ben dicea quel grido: Io sono Oreste! Arrigo Boito’s Nerone [Sannicandro], Wahnmochings violetter Ringelnero – Alfred Schuler and the emperor [Schollmeyer], Nero – the monster set on stage [Lenz], Nero, NERO, Neronian Literature [Maes] and last but not least “Nero redivivus”: Nero, George W. Bush, and the “Society of the Spectacle” [Shumate]. The book ends with an index including names, places, and subjects.