Lucan’s Epic Body

Dinter, Martin T.

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“…Dinter discusses Lucan's use of body vocabulary, including the "cosmic body," the "Roman state body," the "military corps," the "human body," and the "textual body." 95 Of particular relevance to this essay's argument is his consideration of the cosmic, Roman state, and human bodies. In his words, "The reader witnesses [the] concept of the human body as barrier repeatedly throughout the epic."…”

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Blood and Death of Rome in Lucan’s Bellum Civile

Kubish¹

2013

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This paper is an analysis of the symbolism of blood in Lucan’s epic poem Bellum Civile. The first part of the article discusses several examples that show Lucan’s interest in the value that blood has when it is flowing inside someone’s body, and conversely the loss of that value when the blood is shed in battle. It then reveals a parallel between the unusual descriptions of the flow of blood, and the more usual descriptions of the natural flow of water. Various examples of this parallel suggest that Lucan develops a striking image of the bloodshed of Romans becoming as normal as natural phenomena. This bloodshed thus represents the inevitable death of Rome caused by this civil war, since Lucan subtly suggests that the bloodshed and death of individual Romans only translates into the bloodshed and death of Rome itself after the main battle of this war. The theory advanced by this paper can add to the theories of some recent scholarship on this poem, which generally argues that Lucan is not so optimistic about the future of Rome as was once believed.

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Blood and Death of Rome in Lucan’s Bellum Civile

Kubish¹

2013

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“…125. Dinter (2005) ordnet seine Stellensammlung nach "textual, human, military, cosmic bodies", stellt aber alle in eine intentionale Beziehung zu einer am Stoff orientierten Botschaft (ebd. 308 "Lucan"s total destruction of the Roman republic").…”

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Erictho und die Figuren der Entzweiung – Vorüberlegungen zu einer Poetik der Emergenz in Lucans Bellum civile1

Arweiler

2006

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Caesar Perpetuus ?: Cyclical Behavior in Lucan’s Caesar Similes

Chen¹

2014

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Examination of three similes in Lucan’s Bellum Civile shows that Caesar functions according to a cyclical model in which a violent release of energy is followed by a state of exhaustion, which then leads to regeneration in preparation for another outburst. Although the repetition of this process would render him invulnerable, the same similes also suggest that the cycle could be broken—a situation that would ensure Caesar’s demise. These hypothetical outcomes thus serve as opposing templates through which Caesar’s fate in the narrative proper may be evaluated.

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Lucan’s Epic Body

Cited by 5 publications

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Blood and Death of Rome in Lucan’s Bellum Civile

Blood and Death of Rome in Lucan’s Bellum Civile

Erictho und die Figuren der Entzweiung – Vorüberlegungen zu einer Poetik der Emergenz in Lucans Bellum civile1

Caesar Perpetuus ?: Cyclical Behavior in Lucan’s Caesar Similes

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