Lucan Spectacle and Engagement |
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Author:
| Leigh, Matthew |
Series title: | Oxford Classical Monographs |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-815067-1 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1995 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $497.00AUD $451.82 |
Book Description:
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The Pharsalia is Lucan's epic on the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey. It is a poem of immense energy and intelligence in which spectacle and spectatorship are prominent. The author shows that by transforming certain Virgilian narrative devices Lucan launches an attack on the Augustan ideology of the Aeneid: where Virgil writes the foundation myth for the new regime and celebrates the connections between Augustus and Aeneas, Lucan produces a savagely republican anti-Aeneid which...
More DescriptionThe Pharsalia is Lucan's epic on the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey. It is a poem of immense energy and intelligence in which spectacle and spectatorship are prominent. The author shows that by transforming certain Virgilian narrative devices Lucan launches an attack on the Augustan ideology of the Aeneid: where Virgil writes the foundation myth for the new regime and celebrates the connections between Augustus and Aeneas, Lucan produces a savagely republican anti-Aeneid which represents the civil wars as the death of Rome.