The Poet Lucan: Studies in Rhetorical Epic by Mark P. O. Morford

The Poet Lucan: Studies in Rhetorical Epic

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Mark P. O. Morford

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nonfiction classics history literary poetry
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Lucan's epic on the Civil War has dodged in and out of fashion. Widely admired in the 17th and 18th centuries, it came in the 19th and 20th to be criticised by comparison with Virgil's Aeneid. The latter was established as the standard by which al...

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