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Lucan's epic poem Pharsalia tells the story of the cataclysmic "end of Rome" through the victory of Julius Caesar and Caesarism in the civil wars of 49-48 BCE. In Thunder and Lament, Timothy Joseph examines how Lucan's poetic agenda moves in lockstep with his narrative arc, as the poet fashions the Pharsalia to mark the momentous end of the epic genre. To accomplish the closure of the genre, Lucan engages pervasively and polemically with the very first works of Greek and Roman epic - inverting, collapsing, undoing, and completing tropes and themes introduced in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and in the foundational Latin epic poems by Livius Andronicus, Naevius, and most of all Ennius.Thunder and Lament is the first book-length study of Lucan's engagement with the Homeric poems and the works of early Latin epic. By focusing on Lucan's effort to "surpass the poets of old" - a phrase the poet Statius would use of his achievement - this study deepens our appreciation of Lucan's poetic accomplishment and of the tensions between beginning and ending that lie at the heart of the epic genre. Statius also read Lucan as a poet who both "thunders" and "laments", and Joseph argues that Lucan closes off epic's beginnings through gestures of thundering poetic violence and also through a transformation and completion of the conventional epic mode of lament. Equipped with these two registers of closure, each engaging and taking aim at epic's primal texts, Lucan positions the Pharsalia as epic's final song.

Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus

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Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus --- Figulus, Publius Nigidius

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This book explores Lucan's highly original deployment of contradictory Greco-Roman stereotypes about Egypt (utopian vs. xenophobic) as a means of reflecting on the violent tensions within his own society (conservatism vs. Caesarism). Lucan shows the two distinct facets of first-century BC Egypt, namely its ancient Pharaonic heritage and its latter-day Hellenistic culture under the Ptolemies, not only in spiritual conflict with one another (via the opposed characters of Acoreus, priest of old Memphis, and the Alexandrian courtier Pothinus) but also inextricably entangled with the corresponding factions of the Roman civil war and of Nero's Rome. Dr Tracy also connects Lucan's portrayal of Egypt and the Nile to his critical engagement with Greco-Roman discourse on natural science, particularly the Naturales Quaestiones of his uncle Seneca the Younger. Lastly, he examines Lucan's attitude toward the value of cultural diversity within the increasingly monocultural environment of the Roman Mediterranean.

Lucan, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Egypt --- History --- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus, --- Lukan, Mark Anneĭ, --- Lucain, --- Lucano, Marco Anneo, --- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus --- Lucan --- Lucano, Marco Antonio --- Lucain --- Lucano

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Lucan, --- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus, --- Lukan, Mark Anneĭ, --- Lucain, --- Lucano, Marco Anneo, --- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus --- Pypłacz, Joanna. --- Influence. --- Lucan --- Lucano, Marco Antonio --- Lucain --- Lucano