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Pharsalia: The Earliest Debates Over Original Intent

Pharsalia: The Earliest Debates Over Original Intent

Lucan
Joyce, Jane Wilson

Hardcover

Series: Masters of Latin Literature

Literary CriticismGeneral Military HistoryGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0801429072
ISBN13: 9780801429071
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Dec 16 1993
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.42 Depth: 9.32
Language: English

Lucan's great poem, Pharsalia, recounts events surrounding the decisive battle fought near Pharsalus in 48 B.C. during the civil war between the forces of Pompey and Julius Caesar. Though the subject of this unfinished masterpiece is historical, many of its features are characteristic of epic poetry: Rousing battle scenes; tales of witches, monsters, and miracle; detailed catalogues; intricate similes; and speeches with a high degree of rhetorical elegance. However, Lucan's deft mix of humor and horror, of political satire, literary parody, history, and epic is entirely his own.

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