Lucan's Bellum Civile: Between Epic Tradition and Aesthetic InnovationNicola Hömke, Christiane Reitz Lucan's Bellum Civile is one of the most impressive and unusual works of Silver Age Latin literature, and has been the subject of much research in recent years. In this volume well-known experts on Lucan examine the poetological, narratological and stylistic techniques the author employed to write on the theme of civil war. The epic poem is at once both conforms to and exceeds the tradition of the genre, and confronts its readers with a new kind of aesthetic. |
Contents
Quintilian and Lucan | 1 |
Lucans Ilioupersis Narrative Patterns from the Fall of Troy in Book 2 of the Bellum civile | 17 |
Die Gestalt Julias in der Pharsalia Lukans | 39 |
Caesars Voice and Caesarian Voices | 53 |
Speeches at War | 71 |
Bit by Bit Towards Death Lucans Scaeva and the Aesthetisization of Dying | 91 |
plus quam visibilia Lukans suggestive Nichtbeschreibungen | 105 |
Medusa Antaeus and Caesar Libycus | 119 |
Medusa and Cato in Lucan Pharsalia 9 | 135 |
Stoische Erneuerung der epischen Tradition Der Bürgerkrieg als Schicksal und die Entscheidungsfreiheit zum Verbrechen | 155 |
und es bewegt sich doch Der Automatismus des abgehackten Gliedes | 175 |
Backmatter | 191 |
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