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Caesar and the Storm

A Commentary on Lucan "De Bello Civili</I>, Book 5 lines 476-721

Monica Matthews (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2008
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-03910-736-0 (ISBN)

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This commentary on a part of book 5 of Lucan's 'historical epic' poem De Bello Civili aims to provide the reader with as thorough an analysis as possible of literary and historical points of interest within the text and so to facilitate a fuller understanding and appreciation of one of the most important episodes in the poem, Julius Caesar's failed attempt to cross the Adriatic in the midst of a great storm.
It examines how the episode contributes to the long tradition of epic storm narratives dating back to Homer and also how it contributes to the wider themes of the poem as a whole, in particular to Lucan's portrayal of Caesar.
A line-by-line commentary is combined with longer notes summarizing issues of particular importance. Such issues include: the influence of Roman love-poetry in the depiction of the relationship between Caesar and his men, Lucan's use of Virgil's Nisus and Euryalus episode, and the tradition of theoxeny narratives lying behind the scene at the home of the fisherman Amyclas which allows us to view Caesar as 'playing the part' of a traditional god or hero.
Throughout, Lucan's engagement with the works of Homer, Virgil (particularly the Aeneid but also the Georgics), Ovid and Seneca, and the ways in which the lack of a traditional divine machinery in his poem is compensated for are considered.

The Author: Monica Matthews studied Classics at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1985 to 1989. After a number of years working in school-teaching and publishing she studied for an M.A. in Classics at University College London followed by a Ph.D. in Classics at King’s College London. She received her doctorate in 2004.

Contents: Introduction - Text and translation - Commentary (lines 476-503: Caesar and Antony; lines 504-596: Caesar at the house of Amyclas and the beginnings of the storm; lines 597-677: The Storm; lines 678-702: Caesar's return to camp and the end of the storm; lines 703-721: The journey of the troops in Italy from Brundisium to Nymphaeum on the Illyrian coast) - Bibliography - Maps - Appendix I: The Historical Sources for De Bello Civili 5.476-721 - Appendix II: Lucan's Adaptation of the Traditional Epic Storm in De Bello Civili 5.540-702.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.2.2008
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Latein / Altgriechisch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Amyclas • Antony • Bello • Book • Brundisium • Caesar • Civili&lt • Commentary • De bello cilivi 5,476-721 • Hardcover, Softcover / Klassische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • HC/Klassische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • Kommentar • lines • Lucan • Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus • Matthews • Monica • Nymphaeum • Storm • Theoxeny • The Storm
ISBN-10	3-03910-736-4 / 3039107364
ISBN-13	978-3-03910-736-0 / 9783039107360
Zustand	Neuware