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Zientek, Laura.

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Lucan's Natural Questions: Landscape and Geography in the Bellum Civile.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Lucan's Natural Questions: Landscape and Geography in the Bellum Civile./
作者:	Zientek, Laura.
面頁冊數:	307 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-12A(E).
標題:	Classical literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3632010
ISBN:	9781321112344

Lucan's Natural Questions: Landscape and Geography in the Bellum Civile.
Zientek, Laura.

Lucan's Natural Questions: Landscape and Geography in the Bellum Civile. - 307 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation is an analysis of the role of landscape and the natural world in Lucan's Bellum Civile. I investigate digressions and excurses on mountains, rivers, and certain myths associated aetiologically with the land, and demonstrate how Stoic physics and cosmology -- in particular the concepts of cosmic (dis)order, collapse, and conflagration -- play a role in the way Lucan writes about the landscape in the context of a civil war poem. Building on previous analyses of the Bellum Civile that provide background on its literary context (Ahl, 1976), on Lucan's poetic technique (Masters, 1992), and on landscape in Roman literature (Spencer, 2010), I approach Lucan's depiction of the natural world by focusing on the mutual effect of humanity and landscape on each other. Thus, hardships posed by the land against characters like Caesar and Cato, gloomy and threatening atmospheres, and dangerous or unusual weather phenomena all have places in my study. I also explore how Lucan's landscapes engage with the tropes of the locus amoenus or horridus (Schiesaro, 2006) and elements of the sublime (Day, 2013). The epic's first simile, which compares the end of the Republic to the Stoic theory of cosmic conflagration, is a programmatic image expressed through landscape and environment.

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