Chapter 4
The Empire in the Age of Nero
Book Editor(s):Emma Buckley,
Martin T. Dinter,
Summary
“Empire” is a word which refers to both the monarchic system instituted by Augustus and the vast territory conquered and ruled by Rome (“the Roman Empire”). To understand the structures of power in which Neronian literature is embedded, one needs to consider not only the relationship between the emperor and the Roman elite but also their collective implication in the subjection of the provinces to Roman rule. If the relationship between emperor and Senate figures large in Neronian literature, it is because so much of it was written by men who moved within court circles. In the ideology of the Principate, the Senate was the emperor's partner in ruling the empire. It is this paradox – that the emperors were both threatened by, and dependent upon, the Senate – that explains the complex and contradictory relationship between the two, which is one of the distinctive features of the Augustan Principate.
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