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This book makes available in convenient form a selection of seminal articles on the Roman poet Lucan's grim epic, written in the time of Nero, on the world-changing civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the mid first century BC. The selection enables the reader of Lucan's work to trace th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010
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| Colección: | Oxford readings in classical studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Lucan as the Transmitter of Ancient Pathos; 2. The Proem of the Pharsalia; 3. Is the Eulogy of Nero at the Beginning of the Pharsalia Ironic?; 4. Lucan and the Declamation Schools; 5. Lucan's Use of Virgilian Reminiscence; 6. Stimulos Dedit Aemula Virtus: Lucan and Homer Reconsidered; 7. The Oak and the Lightning: Lucan, Bellum Civile 1. 135157; 8. Lucan's Caesar and the Sacred Grove: Deforestation and Enlightenment in Antiquity; 9. Lucan and the History of the Civil War; 10. The Politician Lucan; 11. Lucan's Imagery of Cosmic Dissolution.
- 12. Lucan's Auctor vix fidelis13. Stat Magni Nominis Umbra: Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus; 14. Indocilis Privata Loqui: The Characterization of Lucan's Caesar; 15. Cato, Caesar, and Fortune in Lucan; 16. Lucan's Caesar at Troy; 17. Lucan/The Word at War; References; Index.