Lucan's Imperial World: The Bellum Civile in Its Contemporary Contexts by Zientek, Laura

Lucan's Imperial World: The Bellum Civile in its Contemporary Contexts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350193727)

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Lucan's Imperial World: The Bellum Civile in Its Contemporary Contexts by Zientek, Laura

Lucan's Imperial World: The Bellum Civile in its Contemporary Contexts

$42.95
Lucan's Imperial World: The Bellum Civile in Its Contemporary Contexts by Zientek, Laura

Lucan's Imperial World: The Bellum Civile in its Contemporary Contexts

$42.95
Format: Paperback
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These new essays comprise the first collective study of Lucan and his epic poem that focuses specifically on points of contact between his text and the cultural, literary, and historical environments in which he lived and wrote. The Bellum Civile, Lucan's poetic narrative of the monumental civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus, explores the violent foundations of the Roman principate and the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The poem, composed more than a century later during the reign of Nero, thus recalls the past while being very much a product of its time.

This volume offers innovative readings that seek to interpret Lucan's epic in terms of the contemporary politics, philosophy, literature, rhetoric, geography, and cultural memory of the author's lifetime. In doing so, these studies illuminate how approaching Lucan and his text in light of their contemporary environments enriches our understanding of author, text, and context individually and in conversation with each other.

Author: Laura Zientek
ISBN-10: 1350193720
ISBN-13: 9781350193727
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2021
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d
By Laura Zientek
By Laura Zientek
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Laura Zientek is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Reed College, Oregon, USA. Her research focuses on the intersection of landscape representation and natural philosophy in Roman epic poetry, as well as on poetic treatments of natural and built environments.

Mark Thorne is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Luther College, Iowa, USA. His work centres on Lucan and other representations of the Roman civil wars from the perspectives of cultural memory and trauma studies, with a special interest in the memory of Cato Uticensis in the early Roman empire.

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