Lucan

TRAMA

A selection of essential essays, by leading scholars, on Lucan's civil war epic, De Bello Civili. Five essays appear in English for the first time, and quotations from Latin and Greek have been translated. A specially written Introduction, by Susanna Braund, provides an up-to-date guide to scholarship and reception.

NOTE EDITORE

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 the emergence of vital critical perspectives and controversies and the diverse approaches that have been applied to them. Five essays appear in English for the first time, and quotations from Latin and Greek have been translated. A specially written Introduction, by Susanna Braund, provides an up-to-date guide to scholarship on Lucan and to the history of the reception of the poem.

SOMMARIO

1 - Lucan as the Transmitter of Ancient Pathos2 - The Proem of the Pharsalia3 - Is the Eulogy of Nero at the Beginning of the Pharsalia Ironic?4 - Lucan and the Declamation Schools5 - Lucan's Use of Virgilian Reminiscence6 - Stimulos Dedit Aemula Virtus: Lucan and Homer Reconsidered7 - The Oak and the Lightning: Lucan, Bellum Civile 1.135-1578 - Lucan's Caesar and the Sacred Grove: Deforestation and Enlightenment in Antiquity9 - Lucan and the History of the Civil War10 - The Politician Lucan11 - Lucan's Imagery of Cosmic Dissolution12 - Lucan's Auctor Vix Fidelis13 - Stat Magni Nominis Umbra: Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus14 - Indocilis Privata Loqui: The Characterization of Lucan's Caesar15 - Cato, Caesar, and Fortune in Lucan16 - Lucan's Caesar at Troy17 - Lucan/The Word at War

AUTORE

The late Charles Tesoriero was Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Australia. Frances Muecke is Senior Lecturer in Latin at the University of Sydney. Tamara Neal has taught Classics at the Universities of Sydney and New England, Australia.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199277230
• Collana: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
• Dimensioni: 215 x 30.0 x 137 mm Ø 674 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 554