Lucain

Marco Anneo Lucano

Marco Anneo Lucano nación en la ciudad hispana de Córdoba en el año 39 y murió en Roma en el año 65. De familia ilustre tanto por el valor de su alcurnia como por el de su talento, causa asombro, a pesar de su corta vida Nerón le obligó a suicidarse a los veintiséis años a causa de su compromiso en la conjura de Pisón , la abundancia de su obra, fruto de una capacidad poética que obtuvo reconocimiento oficial y público. La «Farsalia» es una obra compleja de gran vitalidad, capaz de generar significados múltiples y de provocar desencuentros e interpretaciones dispares. Lucano lleva a cabo con la «Farsalia» una transformación radical de la epopeya al convertir en su objeto la denuncia exasperada de ala guerra fratricida, de la subversión de los valores morales, de la instauración del reino de la injusticia. Es un poema de los vencidos, un poema de la derrota y de la exaltación de las víctimas.

Farsalia o Guerra Civil

M. Annei Lucani Cordubensis Pharsalia diligentissime per. G. Versellanu[m] recognita. Cum commentariis. Ioannis Sulpitii Verulani eruditionis bonae plenis. Philippi Beroaldi Bononien[sis] nuper repertis. Iodoci Badii Ascensii perq[uam] familiaribus. Cumq[ue] ad castigationem adnotatis ab Anto. Sabellico. Iacobo Bononien[se]. Philippo Beroaldo. Baptista pio. Et quibusdam aliis

Pharsalia

Monica Matthews

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.

A Commentary on Lucan, De Bello Civili, Book 5, Lines 476-721

Caesar and the Storm

M. Annaei Lucani Cordubensis Pharsalia, sive Belli civilis libri decem. Cum scholiaste, hucusque inedito, et notis integris Henrici Glareani, Jacobi Micylli, Joachimi Camerarii, Hugonis Grotii &c. .. curante Francisco Oudendorpio, qui suas etiam adnotationes, & copiosos indices adjecit

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