Lucan

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-927722-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 807 g

This book makes available in convenient form a selection of seminal articles on the Roman poet Lucan's grim epic, written in the time of Nero, on the world-changing civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the mid first century BC. The selection enables the reader of Lucan's work to trace the emergence of vital critical perspectives and controversies and the diverse approaches that have been applied to them. Five essays appear in English for the first time, and quotations from Latin and Greek have been translated. A specially written Introduction, by Susanna Braund, provides an up-to-date guide to scholarship on Lucan and to the history of the reception of the poem.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tesoriero, Charles

Muecke, Frances

Neal, Tamara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Eduard Fraenkel: Lucan as the Transmitter of Ancient Pathos

- 2: Gian Biagio Conte: The Proem of the Pharsalia

- 3: Pierre Grimal: Is the Eulogy of Nero at the Beginning of the Pharsalia Ironic?

- 4: Stanley F. Bonner: Lucan and the Declamation Schools

- 5: Lynette Thompson and R. T. Bruère: Lucan's Use of Virgilian Reminiscence

- 6: C. M. C. Green: Stimulos Dedit Aemula Virtus: Lucan and Homer Reconsidered

- 7: Judith A. Rosner-Siegel: The Oak and the Lightning: Lucan, Bellum Civile 1.135-157

- 8: Matthew Leigh: Lucan's Caesar and the Sacred Grove: Deforestation and Enlightenment in Antiquity

- 9: A. W. Lintott: Lucan and the History of the Civil War

- 10: Charles Martindale: The Politician Lucan

- 11: Michael Lapidge: Lucan's Imagery of Cosmic Dissolution

- 12: Kirk Ormand: Lucan's Auctor Vix Fidelis

- 13: D. C. Feeney: Stat Magni Nominis Umbra: Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus

- 14: Martin Helzle: Indocilis Privata Loqui: The Characterization of Lucan's Caesar

- 15: Wolf H. Friedrich: Cato, Caesar, and Fortune in Lucan

- 16: Otto Zwierlein: Lucan's Caesar at Troy

- 17: John Henderson: Lucan/The Word at War

Über Autor(innen)

The late Charles Tesoriero was Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Australia.

Frances Muecke is Senior Lecturer in Latin at the University of Sydney.

Tamara Neal has taught Classics at the Universities of Sydney and New England, Australia.