Lucan
By: edited by Charles Tesoriero ; assisted by Frances Muecke and Tamara Neal ; with an introduction by Susanna Braund
Series: Oxford readings in classical studies; Oxford readings in classical studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 537
ISBN-13: 9780199277223; 9780199277230
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [493]-517) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Susanna Braund; title: Lucan as the transmitter of ancient pathos  -- Eduard Fraenkel; title: The proem of Pharsalia  -- Gian Biagio Conte; title: Is the eulogy of Nero at the beginning of the Parsalia ironic?  -- Pierre Grimal; title: Lucan and the declamation schools  -- Stanley F. Bonner -- Lucan's use of Virgilian reminiscence / -- Lynette Thompson and R. T. Bruère; title: Stimulos dedit aemula virtus : Lucan and Homer reconsidered  -- C.M.C. Green; title: The oak and the lightning : Lucan, Bellum civile 1. 135-157  -- Judith A. Rosner-Siegel -- Lucan's Caesar and the sacred grove : deforestation and enlightenment in Antiquity / -- Matthew Leigh; title: Lucan and the history of the civil war  -- A.W. Lintott; title: The politician Lucan  -- Charles Martindale; title: Lucan's imagery of cosmic dissolution  -- Michael Lapidge; title: Lucan's Auctor vix fidelis  -- Kirk Ormand; title: Stat magni nominis umbra : Lucan on the greatness of Pompeius Magnus  -- D.C. Feeney; title: Indocilis privata loqui : the characterization of Lucan's Caesar  -- Martin Helzle; title: Cato, Caesar, and fortune in Lucan  -- Wolf H. Friedrich; title: Lucan's Caesar at Troy  -- Otto Zwierlein; title: Lucan/the word at war -- John Henderson.