 | Momentary Monsters: Lucan and His Heroes Subjects: Lucan 39–65. Pharsalia; Rome -- History -- Civil War 49–48 B.C. -- Literature and the war; Cato Marcus Porcius 95–46 B.C. in fiction drama poetry etc; Pompey the Great 106–48 B.C. in fiction drama poetry etc; Caesar Julius in fiction dram; This book is a lively and provocative reading of the Roman poet Lucan (A.D. 39-65) which casts new light on the Pharsalia , his epic poem and only surviving work. W. R. Johnson is the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago. His books include Lucretius and the Modern World ; Luxuriance and Economy: Cicero and the Alien Style ; Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's "Aeneid" ; and, also in the series Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, Horace and the Dialectic of Freedom: Readings in "Epistles" 1 . |
