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Title: LUCAN
By: Charles Tesoriero (Editor), Frances Muecke (Editor), Tamara Neal (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0199277230
ISBN 13: 9780199277230
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 28 January, 2010
Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Pages: 560
Description: A selection of essential essays, by leading scholars, on Lucan's civil war epic, De Bello Civili. Five essays appear in English for the first time, and quotations from Latin and Greek have been translated. A specially written Introduction, by Susanna Braund, provides an up-to-date guide to scholarship and reception.
Synopsis: This book makes available in convenient form a selection of seminal articles on the Roman poet Lucan's grim epic, written in the time of Nero, on the world-changing civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the mid first century BC. The selection enables the reader of Lucan's work to trace the emergence of vital critical perspectives and controversies and the diverse approaches that have been applied to them. Five essays appear in English for the first time, and quotations from Latin and Greek have been translated. A specially written Introduction, by Susanna Braund, provides an up-to-date guide to scholarship on Lucan and to the history of the reception of the poem.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
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