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- PublisherCornell Univ Pr
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 080142030X
- ISBN 13 9780801420306
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MOMENTARY MONSTERS: LUCAN AND HIS HEROES
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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. DJ is in plastic sleeve and taped down to boards. ; A lively and provocative reading of the Roman poet Lucan which casts new light on the Pharsalia, his epic poem and only surviving work. Contents: Erictho and Her Universe; Cato: The Delusions of Virtue; Pompey: The Illusions of History; Caesar: the Phantasmagoria of Power. ; Cornell Studies in Classical Philology; 0.75 x 8.75 x 5.5 Inches; 160 pages. Seller Inventory # 25194
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Condition: Sehr gut. 145 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Pencil entry on endpaper. Otherwise in very good condition. - Content: This book is a lively and provocative reading of the Roman poet Lucan (a.d. 39-65) which casts new light on the Pharsalia, his epic poem and only surviving work. The distinguished classicist W. R. Johnson demonstrates both the need to understand Lucan's epic on its own terms and the injustice of dismissing it as an inferior version of the Aencid. Johnson looks closely at Lucan's treatment of the central figures of the epic, focusing on Lucan's sardonic style and fascination with horror. He concentrates on four larger-than-life figuresErictho, Cato, Pompey, and Caesarwhom he regards as central to Lucan's vision of the fall of the Republic; through them, he addresses the poem's themes and techniques. Placing special emphasis on the black farce characteristic of the poem, Johnson also deals with the grotesque aspects (for example, the snakes and the witch) that other critics have tended to ignore or to underplay as mere rhetoric. Delivered as a scries of Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College and revised for book publication, Momentary Monsters will be welcomed by classicists, medievalists, and students of the Renaissance. W. R. Johnson is Professor of Classics and Comparative Studies at the University of Chicago. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, he formerly taught at Cornell University. He is the author of Luxuriance and Economy: Cicero and the Alien Style', Darkness Visible: A Study of Virgil's "Aeneid"; and The Idea of Lyric: Lyric Modes in Ancient and Modern Poetry. ISBN 9780801420306 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 405 Original cloth with dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 1167075
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very light shelfwear. Else book is fine. DJ has light shelfwear. DJ spine is sunned and discolored ; A lively and provocative reading of the Roman poet Lucan which casts new light on the Pharsalia, his epic poem and only surviving work. Contents: Erictho and Her Universe; Cato: The Delusions of Virtue; Pompey: The Illusions of History; Caesar: the Phantasmagoria of Power. ; Cornell Studies in Classical Philology; 0.75 x 8.75 x 5.5 Inches; 160 pages. Seller Inventory # 32595
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