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Lucan
by Neal, Tamara, Muecke, Frances, Tesoriero, Charles
fromOxford readings in classical studies
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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…
De bello civili: book II
by Fantham, Elaine, Lucain, Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus
fromCambridge Greek and Latin classics
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Type: Book
Explores how a cultural clash between traditional Pharaonic and latter-day Ptolemaic Egypt is used to mirror the Roman civil war.
This is the first systematic study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed critical interest in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics, Henry Day argues that the category of the sublime offers a means of moving beyond readings of Lucan's epic poem Bellum Civile in terms…