1. Book VII; 2. Battle; 3. The gods and religion; 4. Stoicism and epicureanism; 5. Pompey and Caesar; 6. Sources, models, intertexts; 7. Viewing, seeing, spectatorship; 8. States of mind: madness, hope, fear, anger, joy; 9. Paradox and hyperbole; 10. Apostrophe; 11. Sententiae; 12. Diction, word order, metre; 13. Transmission and text; 14. Manuscripts cited; M. Annaei Lvcani De Bello Civili Liber Septivs; Commentary.
Accessible and detailed guide to this crucial book within an important Latin epic, covering Lucan's style, sources, language, and context.
Paul Roche is Senior Lecturer in Latin at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Lucan 'De Bello Civili' Book I (2009), the editor of Pliny's Praise: The 'Panegyricus' in the Roman World (Cambridge, 2011) and co-editor of Writing Politics in Imperial Rome (2009).
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