Tacitus, the epic successor : Virgil, Lucan, and the narrative of civil war in the histories / / by Timothy A. Joseph.
Allusions to the epic poets Virgil and Lucan in the writing of the Roman historian Tacitus (c. 55 – c. 120 C.E.) have long been noted. This monograph argues that Tacitus fashions himself as a rivaling literary successor to these poets; and that the emulative allusions to Virgil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s...
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| Superior document: | Mnemosyne supplements ; volume 345 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
345. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (227 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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