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Madness Triumphant - A Reading of Lucan's Pharsalia (Hardcover)
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Madness Triumphant - A Reading of Lucan's Pharsalia (Hardcover)
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Madness Triumphant: A Reading of Lucan's Pharsalia offers the most
detailed and comprehensive analysis of Lucan's epic poem of the
civil war between Caesar and Pompey to have appeared in English. In
the manner of his previous books on Virgil and Ovid, Professor
Fratantuono considers the Pharsalia as an epic investigation of the
nature of fury and madness in Rome, this time during the increasing
insanity of Nero's reign. The volume proceeds chapter by chapter,
book by book through Lucan's poem, as it unfolds the thesis that
the poet Lucan crafted an epic response to both Virgil and Ovid,
the closing movement in a three act tragedy of madness. In response
to the Aeneid, Lucan raises the idea that the final ethnographic
settlement of Trojans and Italians may not have been for the best,
while in response to the Metamorphoses, he explores the idea that
the immortality achieved by the poet may not, after all, prove to
be a blessing. An introduction and bibliography provide additional
direction for the study of this greatest surviving work of
literature from the so-called Silver Age of Neronian literature,
while the individual chapters offer in-depth bibliographical
citations and extensive annotation as a guide to further study of
the poem. Lucan's poem is revealed to be the consummate hymn to
fury, as the poet offers a return to the opening of Homer's Iliad
and the wrath of Achilles, which is now viewed as part of an
unending cycle of madness that will end only in the flames of a
global conflagration that will consume all things. The pervasive
intertext of Lucan's epic poem with his predecessor Manilius'
Astronomica is also investigated, as the nature of Lucan's response
to both Stoic and Epicurean antecedents is explored. Manilius'
stars are virtually sprinkled through the Pharsalia, as the heavens
offer a celestial canvas for the poet of fury to illustrate the
beautiful lies that may ultimately be shown to conceal even more
seductive truths.
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