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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781191303321

Titolo

Lucan / / edited by Charles Tesoriero ; assisted by Frances Muecke and Tamara Neal ; with an introduction by Susanna Braund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-19-155717-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (551 pages)

Collana

Oxford Readings in Classical Studies

Disciplina

873.01

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction / Susanna Braund -- Lucan as the transmitter of ancient pathos / Eduard Fraenkel -- The proem of Pharsalia / Gian Biagio Conte -- Is the eulogy of Nero at the beginning of the Parsalia ironic? / Pierre Grimal -- Lucan and the declamation schools / Stanley F. Bonner -- Lucan's use of Virgilian reminiscence / Lynette Thompson and R. T. Bruère -- Stimulos dedit aemula virtus : Lucan and Homer reconsidered / C.M.C. Green -- The oak and the lightning : Lucan, Bellum civile 1. 135-157 / Judith A. Rosner-Siegel -- Lucan's Caesar and the sacred grove : deforestation and enlightenment in Antiquity / Matthew Leigh -- Lucan and the history of the civil war / A.W. Lintott -- The politician Lucan / Charles Martindale -- Lucan's imagery of cosmic dissolution / Michael Lapidge -- Lucan's Auctor vix fidelis / Kirk Ormand -- Stat magni nominis umbra : Lucan on the greatness of Pompeius Magnus / D.C. Feeney -- Indocilis privata loqui : the characterization of Lucan's Caesar / Martin Helzle -- Cato, Caesar, and fortune in Lucan / Wolf H. Friedrich -- Lucan's Caesar at Troy / Otto Zwierlein -- Lucan/the word at war / John Henderson.