A Lucan reader; selections from Civil war.

9780865166615

A Lucan reader; selections from Civil war.

Braund, Susanna.

Bolchazy-Carducci Pub.

2009

134 pages

$19.00

Paperback

Latin reader series

PA6478

This collection of annotated passages from Lucan's epic poem Civil Wars is accompanied by commentary on the various themes in the text as well as a historical summary of the conflict between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. Braund is a noted Latin Poetry scholar who has taught in both the UK (U. of Bristol, Exeter and London) as well as the US (Stanford and Yale U.), and she includes 620 lines of Lucan's poem in its original form accompanied by a full list of vocabulary terms. This study guide for Latin scholars and students also provides a greater context for Lucan's philosophical ideals, including his "complicated relationship with Virgil's Aeneid".

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