{"product_id":"amor-belli-giulio-celotto-9780472132874","title":"Amor Belli: Love and Strife in Lucan's Bellum Civile","description":"\u003cp\u003eCompelled by the emperor Nero to commit suicide at age 25 after writing uncomplimentary poems, Latin poet Lucan nevertheless left behind a significant body of work, including the \u003ci\u003eBellum Civile\u003c\/i\u003e (Civil War). Sometimes also called the \u003ci\u003ePharsalia\u003c\/i\u003e, this epic describes the war between Julius Caesar and Pompey.Author Giulio Celotto provides an interpretation of this civil war based on the examination of an aspect completely neglected by previous scholarship: Lucan's literary adaptation of the cosmological dialectic of Love and Strife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to a reading that has found favor over the last three decades, the poem is an unconventional epic that does not conform to Aristotelian norms: Lucan composes a poem characterized by fragmentation and disorder, lacking a conventional teleology, and whose narrative flow is constantly delayed. Celotto's study challenges this interpretation by illustrating how Lucan invokes imagery of cosmic dissolution, but without altogether obliterating epic norms. The poem transforms them from within, condemning the establishment of the Principate and the Julio-Claudian dynasty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giulio Celotto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472132873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472132874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Giulio Celotto","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44045020365055,"sku":"9780472132874","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2f99423d-e2d2-418f-b4c3-42d833251352.jpg?v=1684976259","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/amor-belli-giulio-celotto-9780472132874","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}