Introduction: The Neronian (Literary) "Renaissance" / Martin T. Dinter
Part I. Nero
The Performing Prince / Elaine Fantham
Biographies of Nero / Donna W. Hurley
Nero the Imperial Misfit : Philhellenism in a Rich Man's World / Sigrid Mratschek
Part II. The Empire
The empire in the age of Nero / Myles Lavan
Apollo in arms : Nero at the frontier / David Braund
Domus Neroniana : The Imperial Household in the Age of Nero / Michael J. Mordine
Religion / Darja Eterbenc Erker
Neronian Philosophy / Jenny Bryan
Part III. Literature, Art and Architecture
Seneca, Apocolocyntosis / Christopher L. Whitton
The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues / John Henderson
Seneca's Philosophical Writings : Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales / Jonathan Mannering
Senecan Tragedy / Emma Buckley
Lucan's Bellum Ciuile / Philip Hardie
Petronius' Satyrica / Tom Murgatroyd
Persius / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols
Columella, De Re Rustica / Christiane Reitz
Literature of the World : Seneca's Natural Questions and Pliny's Natural History / Aude Doody
Greek Literature Under Nero / Dirk Uwe Hansen
Buildings of an Emperor : how Nero transformed Rome / Heinz-Jürgen Beste and Henner von Hesberg
Portraits of an Emperor : Nero and the Sun / Marianne Bergmann
Neronian Wall-Painting : A Matter of Perspective / Katharina Lorenz
Part IV. Reception
Nero in Jewish and Christian Tradition from the First Century to the Reformation / Harry O. Maier
Haec monstra edidit : Translating Lucan in the early seventeenth century / Yanick Maes
Haunted by Horror : The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama / Susanna Braund
"Fantasies so varied and bizarre" : The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the "grotesque" / Michael Squire
Epilogue
Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero / Miriam Griffin.