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Brill's Companion to Lucan

Brill's Companion to Lucan

Hardcover

Literary CriticismAncient History General

ISBN10: 9004167862
ISBN13: 9789004167865
Publisher: Brill
Published: Sep 20 2011
Pages: 626
Weight: 2.60
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
Although it was labeled an anti-epic for trumping the celebratory scope of the Roman national epos, Lucan's Bellum Civile is a hymn to lost republican liberty composed under Nero's tyrannical empire. Lucan lost his life in a foiled conspiracy to replace the emperor, but his poem survived the wreckage of antiquity and enjoyed uninterrupted readership. The present collection samples the most current approaches to Lucan's poem, its themes, its dialogue with other texts, its reception in medieval and early modern literature, and its relevance to audiences of all times.

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