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The Poet Lucan - Studies in Rhetorical Epic (Paperback, New edition)
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The Poet Lucan - Studies in Rhetorical Epic (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Bristol Classical Paperbacks
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Lucan's epic on the Civil War has dodged in and out of fashion.
Widely admired in the 17th and 18th centuries, it came in the 19th
and 20th to be criticised by comparison with Virgil's Aeneid. The
latter was established as the standard by which all other epic
poets fail. Lucan's besetting "fault" was seen as his reliance on
rhetoric. This work sets out to consider the rules of ancient
rhetoric as learned by Lucan and applied in his epic. Four themes
commmon to poetry and to the declamatory schools (tyranny, storms,
the occult and dreams) are closely analyzed in relation to the
poem, and the poem is itself set in the context of the Neronian
age.
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