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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809089003321

Titolo

Lucan's Bellum civile : between epic tradition and aesthetic innovation / / edited by Nicola Hömke and Christiane Reitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : De Gruyter, 2010

ISBN

1-282-72314-6

9786612723148

3-11-022948-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, , 1616-0452 ; ; Bd. 282

Classificazione

FX 213505

Altri autori (Persone)

HömkeNicola

ReitzChirstiane

Disciplina

873

873.01

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Rome History Civil War, 49-45 B.C Literature and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Inhalt - Contents -- Vorwort -- Quintilian and Lucan -- Lucan's 'Ilioupersis' - Narrative Patterns from the Fall of Troy in Book 2 of the Bellum civile -- Ut generos soceris mediae iunxere Sabinae: Die Gestalt Julias in der Pharsalia Lukans -- Caesar's Voice and Caesarian Voices -- Lucan 7: Speeches at War -- Bit by Bit Towards Death - Lucan's Scaeva and the Aesthetisization of Dying -- plus quam visibilia - Lukans suggestive Nichtbeschreibungen -- Medusa, Antaeus, and Caesar Libycus -- The Myth of the Republic: Medusa and Cato in Lucan, Pharsalia 9 -- Stoische Erneuerung der epischen Tradition - Der Bürgerkrieg als Schicksal und die Entscheidungsfreiheit zum Verbrechen -- ... und es bewegt sich doch! Der Automatismus des abgehackten Gliedes -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Lucan's Bellum Civile is one of the most impressive and unusual works of Silver Age Latin literature, and has been the subject of much research in recent years. In this volume well-known experts on Lucan examine the poetological, narratological and stylistic techniques the author employed to write on the theme of civil war. The epic poem is at once both conforms to and exceeds the tradition of the genre, and



confronts its readers with a new kind of aesthetic.