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The Pharsalia, Lucan's epic on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, is a document of fundamental importance for students of the history and literature of Rome in the early imperial period. Whether one is a historian of the Republican opposition to Nero, or a literary critic teasing out the ideological implications of intertextuality, it is impossible to ignore this poem. Taking as his guiding theme the unusual prominence of spectacle and spectators in the Pharsalia - the tendency of either the narrator to represent complicity with or apathy towards the action of various charactyers as that of one who watches and does not engage, or of individual characters to celebrate the actions which they undertake by turning them into theatrical displays for others to watch - Dr Leigh demonstrates the importance of this phenomenon for narrative, and intertextual concerns as well as for history and socio-political matters. He shows how Lucan can take devices characteristic of Virgilian narrative and transform them to launch an attack on the Augustan ideology of the Aeneid and produce a savagely Republican anti-Aeneid which represents the civil wars as the death of Rome. By studying the tension between the narrator's impassioned interventions and his characters' often manic zeal to transform civil war into performance, this work discovers a Lucan who is as funny as he is serious, as reflective as he is committed.

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`this is a very fine book ... It is widely and painstakingly researched, richly footnoted, and well indexed ... It leaves questions unanswered: but that is in the tradition of the most exciting scholarship.' B.D.A. Tipping, Journal of Roman Studies `excellent material' B.D.A. Tipping, Journal of Roman Studies `This lively, energetic, and ... engaging study is a revised Oxford dissertation by a learned lover of Lucan, eager to correct misconceptions in recent work on the poet ... L's project is welcome, for some of the arguments he attempts to refute indeed need close examination ... and he has read voraciously and has a keen eye for detail.' James J O'Hara `A brilliant (and convincing) demonstration of how Lucan's profound ideological commitment to republican virtues was expressed ... Leigh's scholarship is impeccable.' Choice `L.'s book offers a number of original interpretations ... In addition, L.'s placement of virtus within the tradition of exemplary literature, his insightful treatments of Pompey and Cato, and his emphasis on the cultural contexts of Lucan's spectacles are other topics that readers will find rewarding.' Randall T. Ganiban, The Classical Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198150671
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Width: 145 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0198150679
  • Publisher Date: 06 Mar 1997
  • Height: 224 mm
  • No of Pages: 376
  • Series Title: Oxford Classical Monographs
  • Weight: 574 gr


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