De Bello Civili

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OUP Oxford, 24 set 2009 - 418 pagine
This is a full-scale edition (the first in nearly 70 years) of the first book of Lucan's De Bello Civili, an important and influential epic poem written in the 60s AD, which recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey in the years 49-45 BC. The volume includes an introduction, text with apparatus criticus, and commentary. The introduction provides the reader with a number of the most important contexts for understanding Lucan's subject matter and his approach to this material. The commentary pays particular attention to interpretative, linguistic, literary, historical, social, and philosophical issues arising from the narrative of Book 1.

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Sommario

Introduction
1
2 Structure and narrative in book one
10
3 Connections with other books
14
4 Sources and models for book one
19
5 Stoic elements in book one
30
6 The events of book one in the historiographical tradition
36
7 Rhetorical epic
47
8 Language and style
51
9 Text
64
M ANNAEI LVCANI DE BELLO CIVILI LIBER PRIMVS
67
Commentary
91
Bibliography
391
Index uerborum
407
Index locorum
410
Index nominum et rerum
413
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Paul Roche is Lecturer in Latin in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney.

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