- 1Preface
- 2Chapter I — The Soliloquies of Agrippina
- 3Chapter II — Agrippina and Nero
- 4Chapter III — Instrumenta Imperii
- 5Chapter IV — The Crime
- 6Chapter V — The Mockery of Death
- 7Chapter VI — The Accession of Nero
- 8Chapter VII — Seneca and His Family
- 9Chapter VIII — Seneca and His Visitors
- 10Chapter IX — Nero and His Companions
- 11Chapter X — Prince Britannicus
- 12Chapter XI — ‘A Foreign Superstition’
- 13Chapter XII — Onesimus
- 14Chapter XIII — The Adventures of a Runaway
- 15Chapter XIV — Mother and Son
- 16Chapter XV — Emperor and Æsthete
- 17Chapter XVI — Events in the Villa Pollux
- 18Chapter XVII — Amusements of an Emperor
- 19Chapter XVIII — Vespasian’s Farm
- 20Chapter XIX — Otho’s Supper and What Came of It
- 21Chapter XX — Brother and Sister
- 22Chapter XXI — Among the Christians
- 23Chapter XXII — Britannicus and His Song
- 24Chapter XXIII — Perils of Britannicus
- 25Chapter XXIV — Britannicus Undergoes a New Experience
- 26Chapter XXV — Locusta
- 27Chapter XXVI — A Banquet and a Conversation
- 28Chapter XXVII — Death in the Goblet
- 29Chapter XXVIII — The Last of the Claudii
- 30Chapter XXIX — Agrippina at Bay
- 31Chapter XXX — A Private Trial
- 32Chapter XXXI — The Interior of a Slave-Prison
- 33Chapter XXXII — Wanderings of an Outcast
- 34Chapter XXXIII — Titus and the Vestal
- 35Chapter XXXIV — An Evil Epoch
- 36Chapter XXXV — The Matricide
- 37Chapter XXXVI — Self-Avenged
- 38Chapter XXXVII — Victor Over the Public Servitude
- 39Chapter XXXVIII — The Gladiators’ School
- 40Chapter XXXIX — The Fight in the Arena
- 41Chapter XL — The Spoliarium
- 42Chapter XLI — The King of the Grove
- 43Chapter XLII — A Massacre of Slaves
- 44Chapter XLIII — A Notable Prisoner
- 45Chapter XLIV — A Supper at Vespasian’s
- 46Chapter XLV — Poppæa Victrix
- 47Chapter XLVI — The Death of Octavia
- 48Chapter XLVII — A Fettered Ambassador
- 49Chapter XLVIII — Enslaved and Free
- 50Chapter XLIX — The Depths of Satan
- 51Chapter L — A City in Flames
- 52Chapter LI — An Infernal Suggestion
- 53Chapter LII — Aliturus Among the Christians
- 54Chapter LIII — ‘He Who Saw the Apocalypse’
- 55Chapter LIV — In the Burning Fiery Furnace
- 56Chapter LV — Two Martyrdoms
- 57Chapter LVI — Living Torches
- 58Chapter LVII — A Conspiracy and Its Collapse
- 59Chapter LVIII — The Fall of the House of Seneca
- 60Chapter LIX — The Agony of an Empress
- 61Chapter LX — The Doom of Virtue
- 62Chapter LXI — Before the Lion
- 63Chapter LXII — Nero in Greece
- 64Chapter LXIII — Muttering Thunder
- 65Chapter LXIV — At the Three Fountains
- 66Chapter LXV — In the Clutch of Nemesis
- 67Chapter LXVI — L’Envoi
Darkness and Dawn
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