... of the idea of luxus in the Roman context through a discussion of the relationship between the emperor Nero, who pushed luxury toward its psychopathic limits, and the Stoic philosopher Seneca, who championed mos maiorum , the moral life of moderation, and a utopia of balance and proportion. In order...

... the concept of luxury itself, with its multifaceted historical, cultural, and sensual configurations, it will probably take a new Freud to survey all the potential implications of disruptive luxury. For Featherstone, however, it is the writings of Bataille that lead beyond both Nero and Freud’s...

... Emile . 2016 . “ Luxury Is Unjustifiable .” With an introduction by John Armitage and Joanne Roberts . Cultural Politics 12 ( 1 ): 42 – 48 . Featherstone Mark . 2016 . “ Luxus: A Thanatology of Luxury from Nero to Bataille .” Cultural Politics 12 ( 1 ): 66 – 82 . Freeland...

... in more contemporary narrative arenas (Adleman 2021 ). 3. Milch's original premise was a deliberately anachronistic show about the travails of Roman city police during the time of Nero. Because HBO was already producing Rome , executives asked if he would adapt his idea to another historical...

... to the realm of fiction. When the empress Agrippina, the eponymous heroine of Daniel Casper von Lohenstein’s 1665 tragedy, tries to persuade her son Nero to indulge in strategically rationalized incest, her highly rhetorical argument is “that the nature of things is like a compass” because “the river flows...