Lucan and Claudian

Context and Intertext

edited by Valery Berlincourt, Lavinia Galli Milic and Damien Nelis

Book cover: Lucan and Claudian

Extent: 322 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, 2. Reihe

Series volume number: 151

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2016)

ISBN: 9783825365493

6.06 x 9.21 inches

Price: $39.00

In stock

The papers published in this volume were first delivered at a colloquium entitled ‘Lucain et Claudien face a face. Une poesie politique entre epopee, histoire et panegyrique’, which took place at the Fondation Hardt, in Vandoeuvres, near Geneva, in November 2012. The contributors, an international team of scholars, take the reader from broader considerations of both poets in relation to politics and ideology, generic positioning, construction of individual characters and strategies of panegyric, to a stronger focus on investigating precise examples of intertextual dialogue between Claudian and Lucan. In general, the collected studies are implicated in, or have implications for, other topics, such as Latin poetic style, history and the uses of mythology, the Roman epic tradition, and the whole question of the development of literary cultures and how they are received.

  • Edited by Valery Berlincourt
  • Edited by Lavinia Galli Milic
  • Edited by Damien Nelis

"...This volume is a splendid testimonial to the versatility and originality of contemporary scholarship on Lucan and Claudian." --Martin Korenjak, University of Innsbruck, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.03.21
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