Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Lucan

by: Tesoriero, Ch.

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 Lucan
Edited by the late Charles Tesoriero, Frances Muecke, and Tamara Neal
Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
A collection of groundbreaking essays that introduce the reader to recent critical views of Lucan
Introduction, by Susanna Braund, surveys the state of play and new developments in the field
Latin and Greek passages have been translated

Description
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.

Table of Contents
Introduction, Susanna Braund
1:Lucan as the Transmitter of Ancient Pathos, Eduard Fraenkel
2:The Proem of the Pharsalia, Gian Biagio Conte
3:Is the Eulogy of Nero at the Beginning of the Pharsalia Ironic?, Pierre Grimal
4:Lucan and the Declamation Schools, Stanley F. Bonner
5:Lucan's Use of Virgilian Reminiscence, Lynette Thompson and R. T. Bruère
6:Stimulos Dedit Aemula Virtus: Lucan and Homer Reconsidered, C. M. C. Green
7:The Oak and the Lightning: Lucan, Bellum Civile 1.135-157, Judith A. Rosner-Siegel
8:Lucan's Caesar and the Sacred Grove: Deforestation and Enlightenment in Antiquity, Matthew Leigh
9:Lucan and the History of the Civil War, A. W. Lintott
10:The Politician Lucan, Charles Martindale
11:Lucan's Imagery of Cosmic Dissolution, Michael Lapidge
12:Lucan's Auctor Vix Fidelis, Kirk Ormand
13:Stat Magni Nominis Umbra: Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus, D. C. Feeney
14:Indocilis Privata Loqui: The Characterization of Lucan's Caesar, Martin Helzle
15:Cato, Caesar, and Fortune in Lucan, Wolf H. Friedrich
16:Lucan's Caesar at Troy, Otto Zwierlein
17:Lucan/The Word at War, John Henderson

Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Lucan

by: Tesoriero, Ch.

• ISBN-13: 9780199277230 / 978-0-19-927723-0
• ISBN-03: 0199277230 / 0-19-927723-0
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010

Price: 65,00 EURO

1 copy in stock