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Lucans Bellum Civile wird traditionell als politisches Dokument mit prinzipatskritischer Tendenz gedeutet. Seit einigen Jahren sind jedoch Widersprüchlichkeiten innerhalb des Textes betont worden, die eine solch einseitige Deutung fragwürdig erscheinen lassen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die komplexe Vielschichtigkeit der Inkonsistenzen umfassend zu beschreiben und historisch auszuwerten. Hierfür werden aktuelle Konzepte unzuverlässigen Erzählens herangezogen, zu einem eigenständigen Modell modifiziert und auf das Epos angewandt. Neben dem Fokus auf das gesamte Werk werden vertieft die Figur Caesars und der libertas-Begriff untersucht. Inkonsistenzen lassen sich dabei nicht nur innerhalb der Figurendarstellung, sondern auch zwischen Erzähler- und Figurenstimmen, insbesondere aber innerhalb der Erzählerstimme konstatieren. Daher kann keine konsistente Aussage des Textes, somit keine eindeutige Beurteilung des Prinzipats und Neros ermittelt werden. Vielmehr lässt sich das Epos auf die widersprüchliche Wertewelt und Erfahrungswirklichkeit seiner Entstehungszeit beziehen. Es bietet eine monarchische Ausformung republikanischer memoria, die den Wandel in der Erinnerungskultur und die dadurch entstandene Zerrissenheit widerspiegelt. Lucan’s Bellum Civile (Pharsalia) is traditionally read as a political critique of the Principate. However, several features of this text run counter to this interpretation. This study reexamines Lucan’s work using the model of the unreliable narrator to illuminate its portrayal of contradictory structures in Nero’s Principate. The interdisciplinary approach offers a new perspective on Lucan’s epic poem and its historical importance.

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This is one of the most important studies in decades on Johannes Kepler, among the towering figures in the history of astronomy. Drawing extensively on Kepler's correspondence and manuscripts, James Voelkel reveals that the strikingly unusual style of Kepler's magnum opus, Astronomia nova (1609), has been traditionally misinterpreted. Kepler laid forth the first two of his three laws of planetary motion in this work. Instead of a straightforward presentation of his results, however, he led readers on a wild goose chase, recounting the many errors and false starts he had experienced. This had long been deemed a ''confessional'' mirror of the daunting technical obstacles Kepler faced. As Voelkel amply demonstrates, it is not. Voelkel argues that Kepler's style can be understood only in the context of the circumstances in which the book was written. Starting with Kepler's earliest writings, he traces the development of the astronomer's ideas of how the planets were moved by a force from the sun and how this could be expressed mathematically. And he shows how Kepler's once broader research program was diverted to a detailed examination of the motion of Mars. Above all, Voelkel shows that Kepler was well aware of the harsh reception his work would receive--both from Tycho Brahe's heirs and from contemporary astronomers; and how this led him to an avowedly rhetorical pseudo-historical presentation of his results. In treating Kepler at last as a figure in time and not as independent of it, this work will be welcomed by historians of science, astronomers, and historians.

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