A commentary on Lucan, "De bello civili IV"
Subtitle: introduction, edition and translation
By: by Paolo Asso.
Contributors: Lucan, 39-65.
Series: Texte und Kommentare : eine altertumswissenschaftliche Reihe -- Bd. 33
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9783110203851
Subjects: Lucan, -- 39-65; Caesar, Julius -- In literature; Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism; Rome -- History -- Civil War, 49-45 B.C. -- Literature and the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lucan's life and times : vitae and other evidence; title: Lucan's antiphrastic epos; title: Book IV and its place in the poem; title: Language and style; title: Diction; title: Syntax and word order; title: Rhetorical devices; title: Meter; title: Note on the Latin text; title: Conspectus siglorum; title: Text and translation; title: Commentary; title: The Battle of Ilerda; title: Mutual suicide : Volteius and the Opitergians; title: Curio in Africa.