Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's Bellum Civile

This 1992 book is a major literary re-evaluation of Lucan's epic poem, the Bellum Civile ('The Civil War').

List of contents

List of maps; Preface; 1. Caesar at the Rubicon; 2. Massilian compilation; 3. Ilerda; 4. Appius and the Delphic oracle; 5. The Thessalian excursus; 6. Erictho; 7. The endlessness of the Civil War; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

This 1992 book is a major literary re-evaluation of Lucan's epic poem, the Bellum Civile ('The Civil War'). Its main purpose is to bring out the implications of one basic premise: this poem is not only about civil war, but uses the metaphor of civil war (i.e. self-destruction and internal discord) as the basis for the way it tells its story.

Product details

• Authors: Jamie Masters, Masters Jamie
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.1992
• EAN: 9780521414609
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41460-9
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 223 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 464 g
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form