Civil War - Brossura

Lucan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1603849963 ISBN 13: 9781603849968

Casa editrice: Hackett Pub Co Inc, 2015

Riassunto

Written in the reign of Nero—the emperor against whom Lucan was implicated in a conspiracy and by whom he was compelled to commit suicide at the age of 25—the poet's dark, ambiguous, unfinished masterpiece focuses on the disintegration of the Roman body politic and the war between Julius Caesar and Pompey that ultimately lead to the end of the Roman republic.

While aiming for a poem both as rugged as Lucan's—with its mix of history and fantasy, of high and low registers, of common and uncommon turns of phrase, of narrative and declamation—and as reader-friendly as possible, Brian Walters owns that he has "nowhere tried to simplify the rhetorical excesses that are the essence of Lucan's poem, the real meat and bone of the Civil War."

A brilliant Introduction by W. R. Johnson discusses the poem's relationship to Nero and monarchy; its invocations of both the gods and chaos; the real hero of the Civil War; and the poem's end and narrative styles.

Synopses of individual books; suggestions for further reading; a glossary of names, places, and Roman institutions; and a map are also included.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Brian Walters is Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

W.R. Johnson is John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics, University of Chicago.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hackett Pub Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1603849963
• ISBN 13: 9781603849968
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 266