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Author : Lucan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lucans Pharsalia written by Lucan and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emma Buckley
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1781889953
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thomas May, Lucan’s Pharsalia (1627) written by Emma Buckley and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauded after his death as ‘champion of the English Commonwealth’, but also derided as a ‘most servile wit, and mercenary pen’, the poet, dramatist and historian Thomas May (c.1595–1650) produced the first full translation into English of Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile shortly before a ruinous civil war engulfed his own country. Lucan, whose epic had lamented the Roman Republic’s doomed struggle to preserve liberty and inevitable enslavement to the Caesars, and who was forced to commit suicide at the behest of the emperor Nero, was a figure of fascination in early modern Europe. May’s accomplished rendition of his challenging poem marked an important moment in the history of its English reception. This is a modernized edition of the first complete (1627) edition of the translation. It includes prefatory materials, dedications and May’s own historical notes on the text. Besides an introduction contextualising May’s life and work and the key features of his translation, it offers a full commentary to the text highlighting how May responded to contemporary editions and commentaries on Lucan, and explaining points of literary, political, philosophical interest. There is also a detailed glossary and bibliography, and a set of textual notes enumerating the chief differences between the 1627 edition and the others produced in May’s lifetime. This volume aims not just to provide an accessible path into the dense, sometimes provocative poem May shapes from Lucan, but also a broader appreciation of the translator’s literary merits and the role his work plays in the history of the English reception of Roman literature and culture.
Author : Lucan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780460875714
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Civil War written by Lucan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only surviving work of the Roman poet Lucan and 1 of the supreme achievements of Augustan verse. Lucan was a Roman poet of Spanish origin, the nephew of Seneca. The only 1 of his works to have survived is a sweeping historical epic about the civil wars between Pompey and Caesar, written in 10 books, which both Shelley and Macauley admired.
Author : Lucan
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Pharsalia ... written by Lucan and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Roche
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806178574
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reading Lucan's Civil War written by Paul Roche and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 39 C.E., the Roman poet Lucan lived during the turbulent reign of the emperor Nero. Prior to his death in 65 C.E., Lucan wrote prolifically, yet beyond some fragments, only his epic poem, the Civil War, has survived. Acclaimed by critics as one of the greatest literary achievements of the Roman Empire, the Civil War is a stirring account of the war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the republican senate led by Pompey the Great. Reading Lucan’s Civil War is the first comprehensive guide to this important poem. Accessible to all readers, it is especially well suited for students encountering the work for the first time. As the editor, Paul Roche, explains in his introduction, the Civil War (alternatively known in Latin as Bellum Civile, De Bello Civili, or Pharsalia) is most likely an unfinished work. Roche places the poem in historical and literary contexts that will be helpful to first-time readers. The volume presents, chapter-by-chapter, essays that cover each of the Civil War’s ten extant books. Five further chapters address topics and issues pertaining to the entire work, including religion and ritual, philosophy, gender dynamics, and Lucan’s relationships to Vergil and Julius Caesar. The contributors to this volume are all expert scholars who have published widely on Lucan’s work and Roman imperial literature. Their essays provide readers with a detailed understanding of and appreciation for the poem’s unique features. The contributors take special care to include translations of all original Latin passages and explain unfamiliar Latin and Greek terms. The volume is enhanced by a map of Lucan’s Roman world and a glossary of key terms.
Author : Matthew Leigh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198150671
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lucan written by Matthew Leigh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pharsalia, Lucan's epic on the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey, is a document of fundamental importance for students of the history and literature of Rome in the early imperial period. For historians concerned with the defence of Republican traditions under the emperors as much as for literary critics mapping the transformation of epic in the wake of Vergil, it is impossible to ignore this poem.
Author : Shadi Bartsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107052203
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero written by Shadi Bartsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and accessible guide to the rich literary, philosophical and artistic achievements of the notorious age of Nero.
Author : Nicola Hömke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110229471
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lucan's Bellum Civile written by Nicola Hömke and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Beiträge zur Altertumskunde enthalten Monographien, Sammelbände, Editionen, Übersetzungen und Kommentare zu Themen aus den Bereichen Klassische, Mittel- und Neulateinische Philologie, Alte Geschichte, Archäologie, Antike Philosophie sowie Nachwirken der Antike bis in die Neuzeit. Dadurch leistet die Reihe einen umfassenden Beitrag zur Erschließung klassischer Literatur und zur Forschung im gesamten Gebiet der Altertumswissenschaften.
Author : Nora Goldschmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107180252
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Afterlives of the Roman Poets written by Nora Goldschmidt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography ('biofiction').
Author : Lucan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731939
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pharsalia written by Lucan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucan's great poem, Pharsalia, recounts events surrounding the decisive battle fought near Pharsalus in 48 B.C. during the civil war between the forces of Pompey and Julius Caesar. Though the subject of this unfinished masterpiece is historical, many of its features are characteristic of epic poetry: Rousing battle scenes; tales of witches, monsters, and miracle; detailed catalogues; intricate similes; and speeches with a high degree of rhetorical elegance. However, Lucan's deft mix of humor and horror, of political satire, literary parody, history, and epic is entirely his own. Jane Wilson Joyce's superb translation conveys the drama and poetry of the original. Her use of natural English rhythms in a loose six-beat line comes close to matching the original Latin hexameters, wile her language preserves Lucan's sequence of images. An enlightening introduction, notes, and a full glossary augment the translation.
