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Zusatztext The eloquence, varuety, and now greaater accessibility of its contributions make this collection a teaching resource of tremendous value. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A selection of essential essays, by leading scholars, on Lucan's civil war epic, De Bello Civili. 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 and reception. Zusammenfassung 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. 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 ...
