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Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement - Oxford Classical Monographs Leigh, Matthew (Tutor in Classics, Tutor in Classics, St Anne's College, Oxford)
Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement - Oxford Classical Monographs
Leigh, Matthew (Tutor in Classics, Tutor in Classics, St Anne's College, Oxford)
"The Pharsalia" is Lucan's epic on the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey. It is a poem of energy in which spectacle and spectatorship are prominent. The author shows that by transforming certain Virgilian narrative devices Lucan launches an attack on the Augustan ideology of the Aeneid.
376 pages, bibliography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 6, 1997 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198150671 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 376 |
| Dimensions | 145 × 224 × 26 mm · 574 g |
| Language | English |