De bello civili
by Lucan
This is a full-scale edition (the first in nearly 70 years) of the first book of Lucan's De Bello Civili, an important and influential epic poem written in the 60s AD, which recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey in the years 49-45 BC. The volume includes an introduction, text with apparatus criticus, and commentary. The introduction provides the reader with a number of the most important contexts for understanding Lucan's subject matter and his approach tothis material. The co…
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- Full title :De bello civili. / Lucan ; edited with a commentary by Paul Roche.
Summary
This is a full-scale edition (the first in nearly 70 years) of the first book of Lucan's De Bello Civili, an important and influential epic poem written in the 60s AD, which recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey in the years 49-45 BC. The volume includes an introduction, text with apparatus criticus, and commentary. The introduction provides the reader with a number of the most important contexts for understanding Lucan's subject matter and his approach tothis material. The commentary pays particular attention to interpretative, linguistic, literary, historical, social, and philosophical issues arising from the narrative of Book 1.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:019157127X, 9780191571275
- oclc:ocn855380729
- LC Classification:PA6479.E5
- Dewey Decimal:873.01
Table of Contents
1. Book one and De Bello Civili -- 2. Structure and narrative in book one -- 3. Connections with other books -- 4. Sources and models for book one -- 5. Stoic elements in book one -- 6. The events of book one in the historiographical tradition -- 7. Rhetorical epic -- 8. Language and style -- 9. Text -- M. Annaei Lucani De Bello Civili Liber Primus -- Commentary.
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