Brill's Companion to Lucan (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies)

"Although it was labeled an anti-epic for trumping the celebratory scope of the Roman national epos, Lucan's Bellum Civile is a hymn to lost republican liberty composed under Nero's tyrannical empire. Lucan lost his life in a foiled conspiracy to replace the emperor, but his poem survived the wreckage of antiquity and enjoyed uninterrupted readership. The present collection samples the most current approaches to Lucan's poem, its themes, its dialogue with other texts, its reception in medieval and early modern literature, and its relevance to audiences of all times."--Publisher's website Brill’s Companion to Lucan 3 Copyright 4 Contents 7 Foreword and Acknowledgements 11 Note on References and Abbreviations 13 Notes on Contributors 15 PART A AUTHOR 23 1. A Controversial Life 25 2. The Bellum Civile as a Roman Epic 43 3. Internal Evidence for the Completeness of the Bellum Civile 55 PART B INTERTEXTS—CONTEXTS—TEXTS 77 4. Shipwrecked “Argonauticas” 79 5. The Bellum Civile as an Anti-Aeneid 103 6. Ovid in Lucan:The Poetics of Instability 133 7. Lucan’s Elegiac Moments 155 8. Noscendi Nilum Cupido:The Nile Digression in Book 10 175 PART C CIVIL WARRIORS 205 9. Sine Funeris Vllo Ardet Honore Rogus: Burning Pyres in Lucan Andsilius Italicus’ Punica 207 10. Lucan’s Cato and the Poetics of Exemplarity 221 11. Terrible Manliness?: Lucan’s Cato 245 12. Partisans in Civil War 259 13. The Dead and Their Ghosts in the Bellum Civile: Lucan's Visions of History 279 PART D CIVIL WAR THEMES 303 14. Lucan’s Bellum Civile: A Specimen of a Roman “Literature of Trauma” 305 15. Lucan and Historical Bias 325 16. Lucan the Formalist 339 17. Crime in Lucan and Statius 349 18. Envy and Fame in Lucan's Bellum Civile. 367 19. Memoria Redux: Memory in Lucan 385 20. And Then It Rained Shields: Revising Nature and Roman Myth 405 21. Lucan’s Poetic Geographies: Center and Periphery in Civil War Epic. 421 22. Social Relations in Lucan’s Bellum Civile 439 PART E RECEPTION 455 23. The First Biography of Lucan: Statius’ Silvae 2.7 457 24. Early and Medieval Scholia and Commentaria on Lucan 475 25. Lucan in Medieval Latin: A Survey of the Bibliography 487 26. Lucan at Last: History, Epic, and Dante’s Commedia 503 27. Lucan in the English Renaissance 513 28. Violence in Translation 529 29. Lucan’s Cato, Joseph Addison’s Cato, and the Poetics of Passion 547 PART F RETROSPECTIVE 569 30. In at the Death 571 Works Cited 579 Index locorum Lucani 621 Index locorum praeter Lucanum 633 Index rerum notabiliorum potiorumque 641