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Momentary Monsters : Lucan and His Heroes /

This book is a lively and provocative reading of the Roman poet Lucan (A.D. 39-65) which casts new light on the Pharsalia, his epic poem and only surviving work. The distinguished classicist W. R. Johnson demonstrates both the need to understand Lucan's epic on its own terms and the injustice o...

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Autor principal: Johnson, W. R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014]
Colección:Cornell Studies in Classical Philology ; 47
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t 1. Erictho and Her Universe --   |t 2. Cato: The Delusions of Virtue --   |t 3. Pompey: The Illusions of History --   |t 4. Caesar: The Phantasmagoria of Power --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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