A selection of essential essays, by leading scholars, on Lucan's civil war epic, De Bello Civili. 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 and reception. INDICE: Susanna Braund: Introduction; 1: Eduard Fraenkel: Lucan as the Transmitter of Ancient Pathos; 2: Gian Biagio Conte: The Proem of the Pharsalia; 3: Pierre Grimal: Is the Eulogy of Nero at the Beginning of the Pharsalia Ironic?; 4: Stanley F. Bonner: Lucan and the Declamation Schools; 5: Lynette Thompson and R. T. Bruère: Lucan's Use of Virgilian Reminiscence; 6: C. M. C. Green: Stimulos Dedit Aemula Virtus: Lucan and Homer Reconsidered; 7: Judith A. Rosner-Siegel: The Oak and the Lightning: Lucan, Bellum Civile 1.135-157; 8: Matthew Leigh: Lucan's Caesar and the Sacred Grove: Deforestation and Enlightenment in Antiquity; 9: A. W. Lintott: Lucan and the History of the Civil War; 10: Charles Martindale: The Politician Lucan; 11: Michael Lapidge: Lucan's Imagery of Cosmic Dissolution; 12: Kirk Ormand: Lucan's Auctor Vix Fidelis; 13: D.C. Feeney: Stat Magni Nominis Umbra: Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus; 14: Martin Helzle: Indocilis Privata Loqui: The Characterization of Lucan'sCaesar; 15: Wolf H. Friedrich: Cato, Caesar, and Fortune in Lucan; 16: Otto Zwierlein: Lucan's Caesar at Troy; 17: John Henderson: Lucan/The Word at War
- ISBN: 978-0-19-927723-0
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 560
- Fecha Publicación: 28/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés