Starring Nero as Nero: poetry, role-playing and identity in Juvenal 8.215-21
Juvenal's <em>synkrisis</em> between Orestes and Nero climaxes with the statement that the former never played Orestes; the implied antithesis, that Nero did play Nero, gains point from the <em>princeps'</em> practice of wearing masks resembling his own face. This b...
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Brill
2009
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