Pharsalia

by Lucan

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Title Statements

Full title :Pharsalia / Lucan ; translated and with an introduction by Jane Wilson Joyce.

Summary

Lucan's great poem, Pharsalia, recounts events surrounding the decisive battle fought near Pharsalus in 48 B.C. during the civil war between the forces of Pompey and Julius Caesar. Though the subject of this unfinished masterpiece is historical, many of its features are characteristic of epic poetry: Rousing battle scenes; tales of witches, monsters, and miracle; detailed catalogues; intricate similes; and speeches with a high degree of rhetorical elegance. However, Lucan's deft mix of humor and horror, of political satire, literary parody, history, and epic is entirely his own.Jane Wilson Joyce's superb translation conveys the drama and poetry of the original. Her use of natural English rhythms in a loose six-beat line comes close to matching the original Latin hexameters, wile her language preserves Lucan's sequence of images. An enlightening introduction, notes, and a full glossary augment the translation.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1993.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cornell University Press
Place of Publication:Ithaca
Language:eng
Publication Date:1993.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxix, 333 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781501731938, 1501731939
oclc:ocn621584189
LC Classification:PA6479.E5
Dewey Decimal:873/.01

Cover; LUCAN PHARSALIA; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; General Introduction; Chronology; Lucan's Pharsalia; Glossary; Select Bibliography.

Subjects

49-45 B.C Bataille de Pharsale, Pharsale, Grèce, … Epic poetry, Latin Epic poetry, Latin -- Translations into… Greece -- Farsala History HISTORY -- Military LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classic… Pharsalus, Battle of, Farsala, Greece, … Poetry POETRY -- Ancient & Classical Rome -- Poésie. -- Histoire -- 49-45 av… Rome -- Poetry. -- History -- Civil War… Rome (Empire) Translations