Brill's Companion to Lucan

Paolo Asso

BRILL, Sep 23, 2011 - Literary Criticism - 625 pages

The present collection samples the most current approaches to Lucan’s poem, its themes, its dialogue with other texts, its reception in medieval and early modern literature, and its relevance to audiences of all times.

Contents

• 1 Elaine Fantham A Controversial Life: 3
• 2 Joseph D Reed The Bellum Civile as a Roman Epic: 21
• 3 Jonathan Tracy Internal Evidence for the Completeness of the Bellum Civile: 33
• PART B INTERTEXTSCONTEXTSTEXTS: 55
• 4 Jackie Murray Shipwrecked Argonauticas: 57
• 5 Sergio Casali The Bellum Civile as an AntiAenid: 81
• The Poetics of Instability: 111
• 7 Ruth R Caston Lucans Elegiac Moments: 133
• The Nile Digression in Book 10: 153
• PART C CIVIL WARRIORS: 183
• Burning Pyres in Lucan and Silius Italicus Pvnica: 185
• 10 J Mira Seo Lucans Cato and the Poetics of Exemplarity: 199
• Lucans Cato: 223
• 12 Marco Fucecchi Partisans in Civil War: 237
• Lucans Visions of History: 257
• PART D CIVIL WAR THEMES: 281
• A Specimen of a Roman Literature of Trauma: 283
• 15 Shadi Bartsch Lucan and Historical Bias: 303
• 16 Robert Sklenár Lucan the Formalist: 317
• 17 Randall Ganiban Crime in Lucan and Statius: 327
• 18 Sean Easton Envy and Fame in Lucans Bellum Civile: 345
• Memory in Lucan: 363
• Revising Nature and Roman Myth: 383
• Center and Periphery in Civil War Epic: 399
• 22 Neil Coffee Social Relations in Lucans Bellum Civile: 417
• PART E RECEPTION: 433
• Statius Silvae 27: 435
• 24 Paolo Esposito Early and Medieval Scholia and Commentaria on Lucan: 453
• a Survey of the Bibliography: 465
• History Epic and Dantes Commedia: 481
• 27 Philip Hardie Lucan in the English Renaissance: 491
• 28 Susanna Braund Violence in Translation: 507
• 29 Francesca DAlessandro Behr Lucans Cato Joseph Addisons Cato and the Poetics of Passion: 525
• PART F RETROSPECTIVE: 547
• 30 John Henderson In at the Death: 549
• Works Cited: 557
• Index locorum ucani: 599
• Index locorum praeter lucanum: 611
• Index rerum notabiliorum potiorumque: 619

About the author

Paolo Asso, Ph.D. (2002) in Classics, Princeton University, is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has recently published an edition, with translation and commentary, of Lucan, Bellum Civile, Book 4 (Berlin, 2010). As a 2011-12 fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, he is writing a monograph on Africa in the Roman literary imagination. Contributors: Elaine Fantham, Joseph D. Reed, Jonathan Tracy, Jackie Murray, Sergio Casali, Alison Keith, Ruth Caston, Eleni Manolaraki, Antony Augoustakis, J. Mira Seo, Ben Tipping, Marco Fucecchi, Neil Bernstein, Christine Walde, Shadi Bartsch, Robert Sklenář, Randall Ganiban, Sean Easton, Mark Thorne, Paolo Asso, Micah Y. Myers, Neil Coffee, Carole Newlands, Paolo Esposito, Edoardo D'Angelo, Simone Marchesi, Philip Hardie, Susanna Braund, Francesca D'Alessandro Behr, and John Henderson.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Brill's Companion to Lucan; Brill's Companions in Classical Studies
• Editor: Paolo Asso
• Publisher: BRILL, 2011
• ISBN: 9004167862, 9789004167865
• Length: 625 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical