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
Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
Binding | Hardcover |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 366 |
ISBN-10 | 0198150679 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0198150671 |
Publication Date | 05/15/1997 |
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