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Article: Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's Civil War. (book review)
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By Shadi Bartsch. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. x + 224 pages.
For Dante (and his guide Virgil) the epic poets Lucan and Statius were a major part of the glory of Rome and the western European tradition. But their fame has not survived like that of the Aeneid, and the so-called "Silver Latin epic" has been seen for many generations as an eccentric taste even for professional Latinists. Indeed Lucan's epic is an extreme case, since both the Aeneid and Thebaid are set in the heroic period of myth, whereas Lucan's narrative dealt with recent history which was still politically dangerous material. It could be claimed that all three poets wrote about ...
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