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Autore |
Fratantuono Lee <1973-> |
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Titolo |
Madness triumphant : a reading of Lucan's Pharsalia / / Lee Fratantuono |
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Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2012 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (495 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Epic poetry, Latin - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Wars Worse Than Civil; 2 And Now the Wrath of the Gods; 3 As the South Wind Drove the Fleet; 4 But the Very Edge of the Earth; 5 Thus Did Fortune Preserve; 6 After the Leaders Pitched Their Camps; 7 Slower Than the Eternal Law; 8 And Now, Beyond the Gorges of Hercules; 9 But Not in Pharian Ash; 10 As Soon As Caesar Trampled; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Madness Triumphant: A Reading of Lucan's Pharsalia offers the most detailed and comprehensive analysis of Lucan's epic poem of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey to have appeared in English. In the manner of his previous books on Virgil and Ovid, Professor Fratantuono considers the Pharsalia as an epic investigation of the nature of fury and madness in Rome, this time during the increasing insanity of Nero's reign. |
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