Righting the Reader: Conflagration and Civil War in Lucan's De Bello Civili

Title
Righting the Reader: Conflagration and Civil War in Lucan's De Bello Civili
Publication Date
2007
Author(s)
Roche, Paul Andrew
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of Otago, Department of Classics
Place of publication
New Zealand
UNE publication id
une:1386
Abstract
Lucan's first simile compares Rome's descent into civil war with the stoic phenomenon of conflagration. This simile is here read against the tradition of classical literature treating conflagration. The implications of this heritage are weighed against the simile's context and the themes and narrative techniques appearing throughout the epic. The simile is programmatic of Lucan's tendency to extend ambiguous hermeneutic possibilities and in its declaration of a conspicuously defective equation between subject and simile.
Link
Citation
Scholia - Studies in Classical Antiquity, v.14, p. 52-71
ISSN
1018-9017
Start page
52
End page
71

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