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Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement

About Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement

"The Pharsalia" is Lucan's epic on the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey. It is a poem of energy in which spectacle and spectatorship are prominent. The author shows that by transforming certain Virgilian narrative devices Lucan launches an attack on the Augustan ideology of the Aeneid.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780198150671
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 376
  • Published:
  • March 5, 1997
  • Dimensions:
  • 145x224x26 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 574 g.
Delivery: 2-3 weeks
Expected delivery: December 5, 2024

Description of Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement

"The Pharsalia" is Lucan's epic on the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey. It is a poem of energy in which spectacle and spectatorship are prominent. The author shows that by transforming certain Virgilian narrative devices Lucan launches an attack on the Augustan ideology of the Aeneid.

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