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Lucan: Civil War VIII

edited with an introduction, translation and commentary by R. Mayer

In his De Bello Civili Lucan tells the story of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, dealing in Book VIII with the defeat and death of the latter. This edition provides a literary commentary to accompany the Latin text and the revised translation of J.D.Daff. The introduction covers the life of Lucan and the literary revival of Nero's time, the meaning of Lucan's choice of theme, a sketch of the form of the whole poem and the eighth book's place within it, the rhetorical style and the transmission of the text. A glossary of proper names, a select bibliography and index complete this work which will be useful to students of Latin literature and of the literary epic in particular. Latin text with translation, commentary and notes. (Aris and Phillips 1981, reprinted 2007)

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Sensible and elegant account... well-calculated to assist the student.

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'Greece and Rome' (1982)

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Addenda & Corrigenda 2007

Introduction
I. The poet and the poem
II. Style
III. MSS Sigla

Text and translation
Commentary: Lines 1-872
Appendix I: Parthia
Appendix II: Virgil and Ovid Recalled

Author Biography

Roland Mayer is Professor of Classics at Kings College London. His publications include Seneca Phaedra (2002) and Tacitus: Dialogus de oratoribus (2001).

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