Lucan: Civil War VIII / Edition 1

by R. Mayer

Overview

In his De Bello Civili Lucan tells the story of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, dealing in Book VIII with the defeat and death of the latter. This edition provides a literary commentary to accompany the Latin text and the revised translation of J.D.Daff.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780856681769
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1981
Series:	Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Roland Mayer is Professor of Classics at King's College London, The University of London.

Roland Mayer is Professor of Classics at King's College London, The University of London.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Addenda & Corrigenda 2007

Introduction
I. The poet and the poem
II. Style
III. MSS Sigla

Text and translation
Commentary: Lines 1-872
Appendix I: Parthia
Appendix II: Virgil and Ovid Recalled

Editorial Reviews

Sensible and elegant account... well-calculated to assist the student.

Greece and Rome, 1982 - Quesnay