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The present collection samples the most current approaches to Lucan's poem, its themes, its dialogue with other texts, its reception in medieval and early modern literature, and its relevance to audiences of all times.
Foreword and Acknowledgements; Note on References and Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors;
PART A. AUTHOR. 1. Elaine Fantham, A Controversial Life -- 2. Joseph D. Reed, The Bellum Civile as a Roman Epic -- 3. Jonathan Tracy, Internal Evidence for the Completeness of the Bellum Civile -- PART B. INTERTEXTS--CONTEXTS--TEXTS. 4. Jackie Murray, Shipwrecked "Argonauticas" -- 5. Sergio Casali, The Bellum Civile as an Anti-Aenid -- 6. Alison Keith, Ovid in Lucan: The Poetics of Instability -- 7. Ruth R. Caston, Lucan's Elegiac Moments -- 8. Eleni Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: The Nile Digression in Book 10 -- PART C. CIVIL WARRIORS. 9. Antony Augoustakis, Sine Funeris Vllo Ardet Honore Rogus: Burning Pyres in Lucan and Silius Italicus' Pvnica -- 10. J. Mira Seo, Lucan's Cato and the Poetics of Exemplarity -- 11. Ben Tipping, Terrible Manliness?: Lucan's Cato -- 12. Marco Fucecchi, Partisans in Civil War -- 13. Neil W. Bernstein, The Dead and their Ghosts in the Bellum Civile: Lucan's Visions of History -- PART D. CIVIL WAR THEMES. 14. Christine Walde, Lucan's Bellum Civile: A Specimen of a Roman "Literature of Trauma."
15. Shadi Bartsch, Lucan and Historical Bias -- 16. Robert Sklenár, Lucan the Formalist -- 17. Randall Ganiban, Crime in Lucan and Statius -- 18. Sean Easton, Envy and Fame in Lucan's Bellum Civile -- 19. Mark Thorne, Memoria Redux: Memory in Lucan -- 20. Paolo Asso, And Then it Rained Shields: Revising Nature and Roman Myth -- 21. Micah Y. Myers, Lucan's Poetic Geographies: Center and Periphery in Civil War Epic -- 22. Neil Coffee, Social Relations in Lucan's Bellum Civile-- PART E. RECEPTION. 23. Carole Newlands, The First Biography of Lucan: Statius' Silvae 2.7 -- 24. Paolo Esposito, Early and Medieval Scholia and Commentaria on Lucan -- 25. Edoardo D'Angelo, Lucan in Medieval Latin: a Survey of the Bibliography -- 26. Simone Marchesi, Lucan at Last: History, Epic, and Dante's Commedia -- 27. Philip Hardie, Lucan in the English Renaissance -- 28. Susanna Braund, Violence in Translation -- 29. Francesca D'Alessandro Behr, Lucan's Cato, Joseph Addison's Cato, and the Poetics of Passion -- PART F. RETROSPECTIVE. 30. John Henderson, In at the Death.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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