List of Illustrations, Preface, Preface to Second Paperback Edition, 1. Introduction, 2. The Making of a Princeps, Nero's Paternal Clan - The Ambitions of Agrippina, Part 1 - Nero's Principate, 3. The New Ruler, 4. The Golden Age, 5. Partners in Power, 6. The Turning Point, Signs of Stress in the Good Years - Ideological Tension - Attitudes to Claudius, 7. The Descent into Tyranny, The New Advisers - Personality and Principate - Bread - and Circuses - First without Equals, 8. The Tyranny of Art, Numismatic Innovations - Architecture and Town Planning, 9. The Artistic Tyrant, The Literary Renaissance - Neronian Patronage - The Theory of a Literary Opposition - The Emperor on the Stage, 10. 'What an Artist Dies with Me', The Pisonian Conspiracy - The Persecution of the Stoics - The Vinician Conspiracy, Part 2 - Post-Mortem on the fall of Nero, 11. Why Did It Happen?, 12. The Problem of the Succession, Nero's Rivals, 13. The Problem of Finance, The Augustan Pattern - The Magnificent Monarch, 14. The Temptation of Philhellenism, Nero's Greek Tastes - Practical Benefits - Family and Imperial History - The Notion of Divine Monarchy, 15. The Military Image of the Princeps, Neronian Foreign Policy - The Pursuit of Glory, Appendix 1 - Sources for the Neronian Material in Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio, Appendix 2 Nero's Later Coinage, Notes and References, Bibliography, Index of Persons, Human and Divine, General Index, Index of Inscriptions, Papyri and Coins.
