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CIZEK, E., L'Époque de Néron et ses controverses idéologiques. Brill, Leiden, 1972. XII,440p. Original red gilt titled cloth. Series: Roma Aeterna IV. Nice copy. 'This long but lucid book, admirably documented and based on wide knowledge of primary and (especially French and Italian) secondary sources, is at once a political and a literary history of the reign of Nero. It distinguishes three phases: one in which the jouthful emperor, supported by Seneca and Burrus, practised 'clementia' towards a senate, a second, after 61, when, determined to establish a kingshipon eastern lines, he tried to make the senate his tool, and a third in which he hoped to destroy the senate altogether. Professor Cizek of the University of Bucharest sees the reign as a series of interactions between various groups with identifiable intellectual stances and consistent aims. It is by means of this concept of groups that he is able to present politics and literature as two sides of the same coin. (...) We thus have a neat and logical structure, one that sounds well in the French language but that may meet scepticism on this side of the Channel.' (MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM in The Classical Review 197, pp.103-05). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)