In the literary discussions after their deaths, both Nero and Domitian were portrayed as megalomaniacal tyrants, but during their lifetimes, they were exuberantly praised in panegyrics. The volume examines the disparate images emerging from the coding and recoding of representations of their rule, and analyzes underlying linguistic mechanisms. It thereby furnishes new perspectives on these two mali principes.

Lisa Cordes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München.