Lucan
by Muecke, Frances Neal, Tamara Tesoriero, Charles
"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 ha…
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- Full title :Lucan / edited by Charles Tesoriero ; assisted by Frances Muecke and Tamara Neal ; with an introduction by Susanna Braund.
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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 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." --Book Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 537 pages ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199277223, 0199277222, 0199277230, 9780199277230
- oclc:ocn313664836
- LC Classification:PA6480
- Dewey Decimal:873.01
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