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THE FLAVIANS AND NERO - (M.) Heerink, (E.) Meijer (edd.) Flavian Responses to Nero’s Rome. Pp. 358, b/w & colour ills. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. Cased, £112, €124. ISBN: 978-94-6372-375-6 (978-94-4855-357-0 open access).

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(M.) Heerink, (E.) Meijer (edd.) Flavian Responses to Nero’s Rome. Pp. 358, b/w & colour ills. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. Cased, £112, €124. ISBN: 978-94-6372-375-6 (978-94-4855-357-0 open access).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2025

Virginia Closs
Virginia Closs*
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The Classical Review , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , October 2025 , pp. 543 - 546
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1 E. Buckley and M.T. Dinter (edd.), A Companion to the Neronian Age (2013); A. Zissos (ed.), A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome (2016); S. Bartsch, K. Freudenburg and C. Littlewood (edd.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero (2017).

2 L.D. Ginsberg and D.A. Krasne (edd.), After 69 ce – Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome (2018); A. Keith (ed.), ‘Philosophical Currents in Flavian Literature’, Phoenix 72 (2018), 211–355; A. Augoustakis, E. Buckley and C. Stocks (edd.), Fides in Flavian Literature (2019); A. Augoustakis and R.J. Littlewood (edd.), Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (2019).

3 Raimondi Cominesi attributes Domitian’s licence to expand the Palatine residence in part to damage from the fire of 80, but it is worth pointing out that this supposition is supported only by some comments from Statius dating to 93 ce rather than any archaeological evidence. Statius (Silvae 1.1.35) alludes to Domitan’s new palace as having survived a fire (an nova contemptis surgant Palatia flammis). R. Sablayrolles (Libertinus miles: Les cohortes de vigiles [1996], p. 796) takes this as evidence that the Palatine too was damaged in the fire, but since Silvae 1–3 were probably published around 93, there could have been some other fire there after 80.