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Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement


Book Description
The Pharsalia is Lucan's epic on the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey. It is a poem of immense energy and intelligence in which spectacle and spectatorship are prominent. Leigh shows that by transforming certain Virgilian narrative devices Lucan launches an attack on the Augustan ideology of the Aeneid: where Virgil writes the foundation myth for the new regime and celebrates... More
Book Information
PublisherOxford University Press Inc
BindingHardcover
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages366
ISBN-100198150679
ISBN-13978-0198150671
Publication Date05/15/1997
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About Matthew Leigh (Author) : Matthew Leigh is a published author of children's books. A published credit of Matthew Leigh is Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement (Oxford Classical Monographs).
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