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Lucan's Imperial World - The Bellum Civile in its Contemporary Contexts (Paperback)
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Lucan's Imperial World - The Bellum Civile in its Contemporary Contexts (Paperback)
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These new essays comprise the first collective study of Lucan and
his epic poem that focuses specifically on points of contact
between his text and the cultural, literary, and historical
environments in which he lived and wrote. The Bellum Civile,
Lucan's poetic narrative of the monumental civil war between Julius
Caesar and Pompey Magnus, explores the violent foundations of the
Roman principate and the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The poem, composed
more than a century later during the reign of Nero, thus recalls
the past while being very much a product of its time. This volume
offers innovative readings that seek to interpret Lucan's epic in
terms of the contemporary politics, philosophy, literature,
rhetoric, geography, and cultural memory of the author's lifetime.
In doing so, these studies illuminate how approaching Lucan and his
text in light of their contemporary environments enriches our
understanding of author, text, and context individually and in
conversation with each other.
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