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The female characters in Lucan's 'Bellum Civile'.
Lisa Sannicandro
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This study provides a survey of the female characters in Lucan‘s Bellum civile which, for many decades, were labelled by critics as decorative elements of their corresponding male partners. After a detailed introduction the first part of the book analyses the historical female personages with regard to the historical sources and the literary tradition [Julia, Cornelia, Marcia, Cleopatra, Arsinoe]. The second part deals with the characters invented by Lucan, which serve the function of predicting the catastrophic outcome of the war [the matron possessed by Apollo, the priestess Phemonoe, the witch Erictho]. In the third part of the study, the mythological figures Medusa, the heroine of a long excursus in the ninth book, Medea, and Agave are considered. Additional female figures, the personated Roma appearing before Caesar at the river Rubicon, and a group of anonymous matrons lamenting the outbreak of war, are investigated in the fourth part of the book. The ultimate chapter contains an overview of the reception of some Lucanian female personages in Medieval and modern European literature and art.
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| Content: | 310 pages | Cover: | Paperback | |
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| Text: | Italian | Size: | 15,6 x 22,0 cm (8°) | |
| Abstracts in other languages: | German, English | weight: | 610 g | |
| Keywords: | biography, literature, myth, Roman Empire, woman | Series: | Litora Classica | |
| ISSN: | 1869-6813 | |||
| Ph D thesis | Universität Padua, 2008 | ISBN-13: | 978-3-86757-471-6 | |
| ISBN-10: | 3-86757-471-5 | |||
| Place of Publication: | Rahden/Westf. | |||
| Price: | 34,80 € | Date of Publication: | 2010 | |