Brill's companion to Lucan /

Brill's companion to Lucan /

Although it was labeled an anti-epic for trumping the celebratory scope of the Roman national epos, Lucan's Bellum Civile is a hymn to lost republican liberty composed under Nero's tyrannical empire. Lucan lost his life in a foiled conspiracy to replace the emperor, but his poem survived t...

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Other Authors: Asso, Paolo, 1965-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online I, ISBN: 9789004219274.

Subjects:

Lucan, > 39-65 > Criticism and interpretation.
Lucan, > 39-65. > Pharsalia.
Lucan, > 39-65.
Punic War, 2nd (218-201 B.C.)
Pharsalia (Lucan)
265 - 30 B.C.
Epic poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Latin.
War and literature.
Rome > History, Military > 265-30 B.C. > Poetry.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Military history.
Poetry.

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Call Number: PA6480 .B675 2011eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material /
  • Asso Paolo
  • A Controversial Life /
  • Elaine Fantham
  • The Bellum Civile as a Roman Epic /
  • Joseph D. Reed
  • Internal Evidence For The Completeness Of The Bellum Civile /
  • Jonathan Tracy
  • Shipwrecked "Argonauticas" /
  • Jackie Murray
  • The Bellum Civile as an Anti-Aeneid /
  • Sergio Casali
  • Ovid in Lucan: The Poetics of Instability /
  • Alison Keith
  • Lucan'S Elegiac Moments /
  • Ruth R. Caston
  • Noscendi Nilum Cupido: The Nile Digression in Book 10 /
  • Eleni Manolaraki
  • Sine Funeris Vllo Ardet Honore Rogus: Burning Pyres in Lucan and Silius Italicus' Pvnica /
  • Antony Augoustakis
  • Lucan'S Cato and the Poetics of Exemplarity /
  • J. Mira Seo
  • Terriblemanliness?: Lucan'S Cato /
  • Ben Tipping
  • Partisans in Civil War /
  • Marco Fucecchi
  • The Dead and their Ghosts in the Bellum Civile: Lucan'S Visions of History /
  • Neil W. Bernstein
  • Lucan's Bellum Civile: A Specimen of a Roman "Literature of Trauma" /
  • Christine Walde
  • Lucan and Historical Bias /
  • Shadi Bartsch
  • Lucan the Formalist /
  • Robert Sklenář
  • Crime in Lucan and Statius /
  • Randall Ganiban
  • Envy and Fame in Lucan'S Bellum Civile /
  • Sean Easton
  • Memoria Redux: Memory in Lucan /
  • Mark Thorne
  • And then it Rained Shields: Revising Nature and Roman Myth /
  • Paolo Asso
  • Lucan'S Poetic Geographies: Center and Periphery in Civil War Epic /
  • Micah Y. Myers
  • Social Relations in Lucan'S Bellum Civile /
  • Neil Coffee
  • The First Biography of Lucan: Statius' Silvae 2.7 /
  • Carole Newlands
  • Early and Medieval Scholia and Commentaria on Lucan /
  • Paolo Esposito
  • Lucan In Medieval Latin: A Survey of the Bibliography /
  • Edoardo D'Angelo
  • Lucan at Last: History, Epic, and Dante'S Commedia /
  • Simone Marchesi
  • Lucan in the English Renaissance /
  • Philip Hardie
  • Violence in Translation /
  • Susanna Braund
  • Lucan'S Cato, Joseph Addison'S Cato, and the Poetics of Passion /
  • Francesca D'Alessandro Behr
  • In at the Death /
  • John Henderson
  • Works Cited /
  • Asso Paolo
  • Index Locorum Lucani /
  • Asso Paolo
  • Index Locorum praeter Lucanum /
  • Asso Paolo
  • Index Rerum Notabiliorum Potiorumque /
  • Asso Paolo.