1992, ISBN: 9789004092662

Small dent to cover. Some light cover soil. VG. Classical Philology Cambridge University Press Cambridge (1992) orig. boards 22x14cm, xiv,271 pp. Contents : sneered at for over a century … Mehr…

Small dent to cover. Some light cover soil. VG. Classical Philology Cambridge University Press Cambridge (1992) orig. boards 22x14cm, xiv,271 pp. Contents : sneered at for over a century for failing to conform to humanist canons of taste and propriety, in recent years his work has been gaining in reputation. Poetry and civil war in Lucan’s ’Bellum Civile’ is a book founded on a genuine admiration for Lucan’s unique, perverse and spellbinding masterpiece." "Above all, argues Dr. Masters, the poem is obsessed with civil war, not only as the subject of the story it tells, but as a metaphor which determines the way that story is told. In these pages, he discusses in detail a number of selected episodes from the poem which illustrate this principle, and on this basis he offers a fresh and challenging perspective on most of the important issues in Lucanian studies--Lucan’s political stance and his attitude to Caesar, his iconoclastic relation to Virgil and the epic tradition, his distortion of history and geography, his inconsistency, his self-destructive narrative technique and, finally, the apparent incompleteness of his poem." "This book is a major re-evaluation, provocative and persuasive, of a central figure in the history of Latin epic" - from dustwrapper., Cambridge University Press, 3, E. J. Brill. Very Good. 1990. Softcover. 9004092668 . Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Some discoloration to wraps. 1 faint crease to wraps. ; Studies in Greek and Roman Religion, Vol 6; Vol. 1; 267 pages; This is the first of a two-volume collection of studies in inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. The first volume focuses on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism. The term "henotheism" - a modern formation after the stereotyped acclamation: #EIS O QEOS# ("one is the god"), common to early Christianity and contemporaneous paganism - denotes the specific devotion to one particular god without denying the existence of, or even cultic attention to, other gods. After its prime in the 1920s and 1930s the term fell into disuse. Nonetheless, the notion of henotheism represents one of the most remarkable and significant shifts in Graeco-Roman religion. ., E. J. Brill, 1990, 3<