Amor Belli: Love and Strife in Lucan's Bellum Civile by Celotto, Giulio

Amor Belli: Love and Strife in Lucan's Bellum Civile

Compelled by the emperor Nero to commit suicide at age 25 after writing uncomplimentary poems, Latin poet...
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Author: Giulio Celotto
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Amor Belli: Love and Strife in Lucan's Bellum Civile by Celotto, Giulio

Amor Belli: Love and Strife in Lucan's Bellum Civile

$283.13

Amor Belli: Love and Strife in Lucan's Bellum Civile

$283.13
Author: Giulio Celotto
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Compelled by the emperor Nero to commit suicide at age 25 after writing uncomplimentary poems, Latin poet Lucan nevertheless left behind a significant body of work, including the Bellum Civile (Civil War). Sometimes also called the Pharsalia, this epic describes the war between Julius Caesar and Pompey.Author Giulio Celotto provides an interpretation of this civil war based on the examination of an aspect completely neglected by previous scholarship: Lucan's literary adaptation of the cosmological dialectic of Love and Strife.

According to a reading that has found favor over the last three decades, the poem is an unconventional epic that does not conform to Aristotelian norms: Lucan composes a poem characterized by fragmentation and disorder, lacking a conventional teleology, and whose narrative flow is constantly delayed. Celotto's study challenges this interpretation by illustrating how Lucan invokes imagery of cosmic dissolution, but without altogether obliterating epic norms. The poem transforms them from within, condemning the establishment of the Principate and the Julio-Claudian dynasty.



Author: Giulio Celotto
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 03/09/2022
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780472132874

About the Author

Giulio Celotto is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.


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