Lucan (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies)

Tesoriero, Charles (EDT)/ Muecke, Frances (EDT)/ Neal, Tamara (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2010/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 554 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199277230
• DDC分類 873.01

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction ; 1. Lucan as the Transmitter of Ancient Pathos ; 2. The Proem of the Pharsalia ; 3. Is the Eulogy of Nero at the Beginning of the Pharsalia Ironic? ; 4. Lucan and the Declamation Schools ; 5. Lucan's Use of Virgilian Reminiscence ; 6. Stimulos Dedit Aemula Virtus: Lucan and Homer Reconsidered ; 7. The Oak and the Lightning: Lucan, Bellum Civile 1.135-157 ; 8. Lucan's Caesar and the Sacred Grove: Deforestation and Enlightenment in Antiquity ; 9. Lucan and the History of the Civil War ; 10. The Politician Lucan ; 11. Lucan's Imagery of Cosmic Dissolution ; 12. Lucan's Auctor Vix Fidelis ; 13. Stat Magni Nominis Umbra: Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus ; 14. Indocilis Privata Loqui: The Characterization of Lucan's Caesar ; 15. Cato, Caesar, and Fortune in Lucan ; 16. Lucan's Caesar at Troy ; 17. Lucan/The Word at War