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A commentary on Lucan, De bello civili IV : introduction, edition and translation /

Lucan's life and times : vitae and other evidence -- Lucan's antiphrastic epos -- Book IV and its place in the poem -- Language and style -- Diction -- Syntax and word order -- Rhetorical devices -- Meter -- Note on the Latin text -- Conspectus siglorum -- Text and translation -- Commentar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Asso, Paolo, 1965-
Other Authors: Lucan, 39-65
Format: Book
Language:English
Latin
Language Notes:Latin and English on facing pages, commentary in English.
Published: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, [2009]
Series:Texte und Kommentare : eine altertumswissenschaftliche Reihe ; Bd. 33
Subjects:
Lucan, > 39-65. > Pharsalia. > Liber 4.
Rome > History > Civil War, 49-45 B.C. > Literature and the war.
Epic poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Caesar, Julius > In literature.
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Summary:Lucan's life and times : vitae and other evidence -- Lucan's antiphrastic epos -- Book IV and its place in the poem -- Language and style -- Diction -- Syntax and word order -- Rhetorical devices -- Meter -- Note on the Latin text -- Conspectus siglorum -- Text and translation -- Commentary -- The Battle of Ilerda -- Mutual suicide : Volteius and the Opitergians -- Curio in Africa.
Physical Description:viii, 333 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-320) and indexes.
ISBN:9783110203851 (hardcover : alk. paper)
3110203855 (hardcover : alk. paper)