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The Taste for Nothingness: A Study of Virtus and Related Themes in Lucan's Bellum Civile
Robert John Sklenar
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Description for The Taste for Nothingness: A Study of Virtus and Related Themes in Lucan's Bellum Civile
Hardcover. The author explores the nihilistic view of the cosmos expressed by the poet and relates this perspective to the philosophical system of the Stoics Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; DSK; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 13. Weight in Grams: 499.
Lucan, the young and doomed epic poet of the Age of Nero, is represented by only one surviving work: the Bellum Civile, which takes as its theme the civil war that destroyed the Roman Republic. It is an epic unlike any other. Rejecting point by point the aesthetics of Vergil's Aeneid, it describes a society and a cosmos plunged into anarchy. Language is a casualty of this anarchy; all certitudes are lost, including those traditionally attached to the Latin word virtus: heroism on the battlefield, rectitude in the conduct of life. Lucan piteously exposes the inability of these concepts to ... Read more
Lucan, the young and doomed epic poet of the Age of Nero, is represented by only one surviving work: the Bellum Civile, which takes as its theme the civil war that destroyed the Roman Republic. It is an epic unlike any other. Rejecting point by point the aesthetics of Vergil's Aeneid, it describes a society and a cosmos plunged into anarchy. Language is a casualty of this anarchy; all certitudes are lost, including those traditionally attached to the Latin word virtus: heroism on the battlefield, rectitude in the conduct of life. Lucan piteously exposes the inability of these concepts to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472113101
SKU
V9780472113101
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About Robert John Sklenar
R. Sklenár is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Tulane University.
Reviews for The Taste for Nothingness: A Study of Virtus and Related Themes in Lucan's Bellum Civile
. . . full of fascinating readings of many passages of the Bellum Civile and it is on these grounds that it can most thoroughly be recommended. In particular, the reader who is new to Lucan will find the application of the critical tools which have developed over the last thirty years to large portions of the text very useful." ... Read more