Lucan: De Bello Ciuili Book VII

Accessible and detailed guide to this crucial book within an important Latin epic, covering Lucan's style, sources, language, and context.

List of contents

1. Book VII; 2. Battle; 3. The gods and religion; 4. Stoicism and epicureanism; 5. Pompey and Caesar; 6. Sources, models, intertexts; 7. Viewing, seeing, spectatorship; 8. States of mind: madness, hope, fear, anger, joy; 9. Paradox and hyperbole; 10. Apostrophe; 11. Sententiae; 12. Diction, word order, metre; 13. Transmission and text; 14. Manuscripts cited; M. Annaei Lvcani De Bello Civili Liber Septivs; Commentary.

About the author

Paul Roche is Senior Lecturer in Latin at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Lucan 'De Bello Civili' Book I (2009), the editor of Pliny's Praise: The 'Panegyricus' in the Roman World (Cambridge, 2011) and co-editor of Writing Politics in Imperial Rome (2009).

Summary

In this book Lucan recounts the decisive victory of Julius Caesar over Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BCE. This edition guides students and scholars through the work and offers generous help with appreciating Lucan's sometimes difficult Latin and his poetic achievement.

Product details

• Authors: Paul (University of Sydney) Roche
• Assisted by: Paul Roche (Editor), Paul (University of Sydney) Roche (Editor), Roche Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781107041707
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04170-7
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Ancient Sagas and epics, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets