Overview
Refutes the commonly-held perception that Nero should be understood as the Antichrist figure in the Bible, and argues instead that this paradigm was a product of late antiquity. The paradigm's success facilitated its revival in the nineteenth century against the backdrop of the era's fin-de-siècle anxieties and religious controversies.
- | Author: Shushma Malik
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: April 16, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 246 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1108491499
- | ISBN-13: 9781108491495
