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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Lucan," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Lucan in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Lucan when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Lucan, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Book 4 of Lucan´s epic contrasts Europe with Africa. At the battle of Lerida (Spain), a violent storm causes the local rivers to flood the plain between the two hills where the opposing armies are camped. Asso´s commentary traces Lucan´s reminiscences of early Greek tales of creation, when Chaos held the elements in indistinct confusion. This primordial broth sets the tone for the whole book. After the battle, the scene switches to the Adriatic shore of Illyricum (Albania), and finally to Africa, where the proto-mythical water of the beginning of the book cedes to the dryness of the desert. The narrative unfolds against the background of the War of the Elements. The Spanish deluge is replaced by the desiccated desolation of Africa. The commentary contrasts the representations of Rome with Africa and explores the significance of Africa as a space contaminated by evil, but which remains an integral part of Rome. Along with Lucan´s other geographic and natural-scientific discussions, Africa´s position as a part of the Roman world is painstakingly supported by astronomic and geographic erudition in Lucan´s blending of scientific and mythological discourse. The poet is a visionary who supports his truth claims by means of scientific discourse. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1822Original Publisher: Press of C. WhittinghamSubjects: Art / TypographyHistory / Ancient / RomeReligion / Christian Church / AdministrationNotes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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The Pharsalia is Lucan's epic on the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey. It is a poem of immense energy and intelligence in which spectacle and spectatorship are prominent. Leigh shows that by transforming certain Virgilian narrative devices Lucan launches an attack on the Augustan ideology of the Aeneid: where Virgil writes the foundation myth for the new regime and celebrates the connections between Augustus and Aeneas, Lucan produces a savagely republican anti-Aeneid which represents the civil wars as the death of Rome. ... Read more

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Publisher: London : H. G. BohnPublication date: 1853Subjects: Pharsalus, Battle of, Farsala, Greece, 48 B.CRome -- History Civil War, 49-45 B.CNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1896.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Is Lucan's brilliant and grotesque epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that despairingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers a startlingly new answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus.

Reflecting on the disintegration of the Roman republic in the wake of the civil war that began in 49 B.C., Lucan (writing during the grim tyranny of Nero's Rome) recounts that fateful conflict with a strangely ambiguous portrayal of his republican hero, Pompey. Although the story is one of a tragic defeat, the language of his epic is more often violent and nihilistic than heroic and tragic. And Lucan is oddly fascinated by the graphic destruction of lives, the violation of human bodies--an interest paralleled in his deviant syntax and fragmented poetry. In an analysis that draws on contemporary political thought ranging from Hannah Arendt and Richard Rorty to the poetry of Vietnam veterans, as well as on literary theory and ancient sources, Bartsch finds in the paradoxes of Lucan's poetry both a political irony that responds to the universally perceived need for, yet suspicion of, ideology, and a recourse to the redemptive power of storytelling. This shrewd and lively book contributes substantially to our understanding of Roman civilization and of poetry as a means of political expression.

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Chapters: Maimonides, Seneca the Younger, Averroes, Lucan, Abd-Ar-Rahman Iii, Luis de Góngora, Martyrs of Córdoba, Ibn Hazm, Moses Ben Jacob Cordovero, Vega, Judah Ben David Hayyuj, Las Ketchup, Javier Martínez-Torrón, Seneca the Elder, Wallada Bint Al-Mustakfi, Joaquín Cortés, Hosius of Corduba, Ibn Zaydún, Bartolomé Bermejo, Álvaro Novo, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Gaspar Gálvez Burgos, Pedro Tafur, Elena Medel, Rafael Lozano, Abdullah Ibn Muhammad Al-Umawi, Manolete, Jonah Ibn Janah, Hisham Ii Al-Hakam, Pedro Suárez de Góngora, 1st Duke of Almodóvar Del Río, Sergio Torres Guardeño, Ibn Quzman, Perfectus, Julio Romero de Torres, Al-Qurtubi, Antonio Del Castillo Y Saavedra, Aurelius and Natalia, Vicente Luis Mora, Muhammad I of Córdoba, Juan de Alfaro Y Gamez, Rosa Aguilar, Al-Mundhir, Rafael Molina Sánchez, Francisco Aguilar Fernández, Rafael Guerra Bejarano, Ibn Hayyan, Diego de León Y Navarrete, Francisco Delicado, Alvarez of Córdoba, Juan de Mesa, Joseph Athias, Ernesto Rodríguez, Pilar Muñoz, Enrique Mora. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 221. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ab 'l-Wald Muammad ibn Amad ibn Rushd (Arabic: ), better known just as Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ), and in European literature as Averroes (pronounced ) (1126 December 10, 1198), was an Andalusian Muslim polymath; a master of Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics. He was born in Córdoba, Al Andalus, modern-day Spain, and died in Marrakesh, modern-day Morocco. His school of philosophy is known as Averroism. He has been described by some as the founding father of secular thought in Western Europe and "one of the spiritual fathers ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=47836 ... Read more

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This book is a major literary reevaluation of Lucan's epic poem, the Bellum Civile ("The Civil War"). Its main purpose is to bring out the implications of one basic premise: this poem is not only about civil war, but uses the metaphor of civil war (i.e. self-destruction and internal discord) as the basis for the way it tells its story. Aimed primarily at classicists, the book offers a provocative new interpretation of most of the important issues in the poem, while attempting to avoid the glibness of generalization by concentrating on detailed readings of selected parts of the text. ... Read more

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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. An epic unlike any other, it rejects point by point the aesthetics of Vergil's Aeneid and describes a society and a cosmos plunged into anarchy. Language was a casualty of this anarchy. All terminological certitudes were lost, including those that traditionally attach to the Latin word virtus: heroism on the battlefield, rectitude in the conduct of life.
The Taste for Nothingness traces Lucan's own analytical method by showing how virtus and related concepts operate--or rather, fail to operate--in Lucan's appropriations and distortions of the traditional epic-battle narrative; in the philosophical commitment of Cato the Younger; and in the personalities of the two antagonists, Pompey and Caesar. Much recent scholarship has reached a consensus that Lucan's literary method is mimetic, that his belief in a chaotic cosmos produces a poetics of chaos. While accepting many of the recent findings about Lucan's view of language and the universe, The Taste for Nothingness also allows an even bolder Lucan to emerge: a committed aesthete who regards art as the only realm in which order is possible.
Robert Sklenár is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Tulane University.
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Brilliant as ever
Dr. Sklenar (now an associate professor at the University of Tennessee) was near his best work while writing this.I've had the privelege of taking several classes under Sklenar, and the passion and expansive knowledge he exudes in life are present throughout this work; although not every case is supported to the point of certainty, one would be hard pressed to argue with the suppositions made in this work.The text can be a bit dry and difficult to decipher at times, but the strong message makes the work well worthwhile. ... Read more

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This title offers discussion of themes such as spatiality, temporality and sovereignty in Latin literature, drawing upon key conteporary critical theorists. "Now and Rome" is about the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time. Through a series of readings of three key Latin literary texts alongside six contemporary cultural theorists, Ika Willis argues for an understanding of sovereignty as a system which enforces certain rules for legibility, transmission and circulation on both information and bodies, redefining the relationship between the 'virtual' and the 'material'. This book is both innovative and important in that it brings together several key strands in recent thinking about sovereignty, history, space, and telecommunications, especially in the way it brings together 'textual' theories (reception, deconstruction) with political and spatial thinking. It also serves as a much-needed crossing-point between Classical Studies and cultural theory."Continuum Studies in Classical Reception" presents scholarly monographs offering new and innovative research and debate to students and scholars in the reception of Classical Studies. Each volume will explore the appropriation, reconceptualization and recontextualization of various aspects of the Graeco-Roman world and its culture, looking at the impact of the ancient world on modernity. Research will also cover reception within antiquity, the theory and practice of translation, and reception theory. ... Read more