PHARSALIA AS ROME'S "DAY OF DOOM" IN LUCAN

Lucan adopts the topos of the "day of doom" from epic predecessors such as Homer and Vergil and employs it on a grand scale, across his poem, for the day of Pharsalia. Lucan makes Pharsalia an all-consuming and collective doomsday, with cosmic forebodings and repercussions. The appreciatio...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of philology 2017-04, Vol.138 (1), p.107-141
1. Verfasser:	Joseph, Timothy A.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Epic literature Gestures Lucan (39-65) Philology Poetry Translation studies
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