Timothy A Joseph

Thunder and Lament

Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thunder and Lament is the first book-length study of Lucan's engagement with the Homeric poems and the works of early Latin epic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780197582145
• ISBN-10: 0197582141
• Artikelnr.: 62536306

Autorenporträt

Timothy A. Joseph is Professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross and the author of Tacitus the Epic Successor.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Editions and abbreviations
Introduction - "You who will surpass the poets of old"
Chapter 1 - Lucan at and against epic's beginnings
Chapter 2 - Toppling topoi: epic's violence directed against itself
Chapter 3 - The Pharsalia and the end of the Ennian story
Chapter 4 - Lucan and the closing of the maritime moment
Chapter 5 - The Pharsalia and the loss of nostos
Chapter 6 - Epic's last lament
Conclusion - Lucan and the living dead
Bibliography