The Nero-Antichrist
Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm
Classics after Antiquity
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 244
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Classics after Antiquity
- EAN: 9781108798358
- Utgivelsesår: 2024
- Bidragsyter: Malik, Shushma (Roehampton University, London)
339,-
Refutes the commonly-held perception that Nero should be understood as the Antichrist figure in the Bible, and argues instead that this paradigm was a product of late antiquity. The paradigm's success facilitated its revival in the nineteenth century against the backdrop of the era's fin-de-siècle anxieties and religious controversies.