Lucan's Egyptian Civil War
Jonathan (University of Toronto) Tracy
Cambridge University Press, 2014
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Explores how the epic poet Lucan employs the cultural clash between traditional Pharaonic and latter-day Ptolemaic Egypt as a means of reflecting on the tensions within Roman society (conservatism vs. Caesarism), on the relationship between science and politics, and on potential avenues of resistance to the emperor Nero.
- ISBN-13
- 9781107072077
- ISBN-10
- 1107072077
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Publication date
- 2014-09-22
- Pages
- 302
- Dimensions
- 158x231x20
- Weight
- 614