Lucan the poetics of civil war Lucan 3965CE The horror of civil war viscera t abes c adavera s anguis t runcus Spargere PAIN NO FLOW TOO FAST Florence mid 1400s The battle of Pharsalus and the death of Pompey ID: 554099
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Politics and Poetics
Lucan: the poetics of civil warSlide2
Lucan (39-65CE)Slide3
The
horror
of civil war
viscera
t
abes
c
adavera
s
anguis
t
runcus
Spargere
PAIN – NO FLOW – TOO FASTSlide4
Florence, mid 1400s: The battle of Pharsalus and the death of Pompey
s:Slide5
Picasso’s Guernica
(1937)Slide6
The battle of Pharsalus, 48BCESlide7
GUILT -
NEFAS
Not just a poem about civil war, but a poem that
performs or re-enacts
civil war.
Q: What does this mean or entail in terms of the
politics
of reading Lucan?Slide8
Creative Nero
Nero came to embody – alongside Seneca, Lucan and Petronius – the inseparability of artistic and political power in court life.Slide9
Where are the
heroes
?
Caesar – as Achilles, Aeneas (in Aen.7-12),
Turnus
(esp. Aen.12)?
Pompey – the underdog (weak Aeneas,
Turnus
, Hector)
Cato – the Stoic wise man as hero? (But doesn’t enter action until
Bk
9).
THE HERO IS DEAD?Slide10
And so are the gods….