Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's Bellum CivileCambridge University Press, 12.03.1992 - 271 Seiten Lucan is the wild maverick among Latin epic poets. Sneered at for over a century for failing to conform to humanist canons of taste and propriety, in recent years his work has been gaining in reputation. This 1992 book is founded on a genuine admiration for Lucan's unique, perverse, and spellbinding masterpiece. Above all, Dr Masters argues, the poem is obsessed with civil war, not only as the subject of the story it tells, but as a metaphor which determines the way that story is told. In these pages, he discusses in detail a number of selected episodes from the poem which illustrate this principle, and on this basis offers challenging perspective on most of the important issues in Lucanian studies such as Lucan's political stance, his attitude to Caesar, his iconoclastic relation to Virgil and the epic tradition and his distortion of history and geography. This book is a major re-evaluation, provocative and persuasive, of a central figure in the history of Latin epic. |
Inhalt
Massilian compilation | 11 |
Ilerda | 43 |
Appius and the Delphic oracle | 91 |
The Thessalian excursus | 150 |
Erictho | 179 |
The endlessness of the Civil War | 216 |
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Actium Aeneas Aeneid Afranius agger Ahl's alluding allusion Apollo Appius Argos BCiv Bellum Civile Brundisium Caes Caesar Caesarian Cassius Dio castra catalogue Cato chapter Cinga civil-war corpse death Delphic episode Delphic oracle discussion distortion ecphrasis Enipeus epic Epirus Erictho fact fata final flood frenzy furor Haffter historical Ilerda Inachus lines Livy Lucan Lucan's account Lucan's poem Lucanian Marti Massilians Morford myth narrative necromancy nefas Nero oracle Ossa Ovid Ovid's parallel Parnassus passage Pelion Petreius Pharsalus Phemonoe Phemonoe's Pichon poem's poet poetic Pompeian Pompeian camp Pompey Pompey's position priestess prophecy Pteleos Pythia reading river Roman Rome Rubicon Rutz Samse scene sea battle senate sense Sextus ships Sibyl Sibylline Sicoris speech Statius Stoic story Strab Suetonius suggests symbolic Syndikus tell temple Thessalian Thessaly Thompson and Bruère tion topos tradition underworld Vacca vates Virg Virgil's Virgilian words