Lucan: De Bello Ciuili Book VII
Book VII of Lucan's De Bello Ciuili recounts the decisive victory of Julius Caesar over Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus on 9 August 48 BCE. Uniquely within Lucan's epic, the entire book is devoted to one event, as the narrator struggles to convey the full horror and significance of Romans fighting against Romans and of the republican defeat. Book VII shows both De Bello Ciuili and its impassioned, partisan narrator at their idiosyncratic best. Lucan's account of Pharsalus well illustrates his poem's macabre aesthetic, his commitment to paradox and hyperbole, and his highly rhetorical presentation of events. This is the first English comment…
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- ISBN: 978-1-108-58560-6
- EAN: 9781108585606
- Produktnummer: 31682303
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'022 KB
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