Lucan quotes/facts

Dinter 2012

‘calls the authority of epic into question’

opening line

bella plusquam civilia …. populumque potentem

V 1.1 - collective identity populus

INtertext w Od but also self enwrapping

In sua victricis conversum viscera dextra

1.7 Battle lines and signifs 

pila minantia pila 

9th C Commenta Bernensia comps these w unattested Ennis pila retunduntur venientibus obvia pila - obvia in L 1.6, same metr position as Enn. 

Collective lamenting voice

canimus

QUestion

quis furor, o cives, quae tanta licentia ferri

IL 1 - H to gods, l to cives. Laocoon’s qs to trojs B2 and Ascanius in B5 - use cives to addres. Eurydice q Orpheus on furor in Georg 4.

B9 Troy

etiam periere ruinae

stagnancy and Ennian intertext B1

multosque ingrata per annos/ hesperia

Joseph 2022 L and genre

absence of muse = ‘ a declaration of Lucan’s plans to silence and end the genre’

Johnson 1987 presence of divine

‘decorously corrupted’

Patria at rubicon - adj shared w Hector Aen 2

Maestissimus

Ext sim of Pomp v jc

Pomp = old oak , pondere fixa suo est. rep of umbro

JC to thunderbolt nullaque exire vetante materia. 

Lucan venerated as epiciist

Statius’ Genethliacon in SIlvae - Calliope foretelling L’s ahcievements to surpass V

intertext of parvi rubiconis

Callimachus

Prio 3.3 - epic stream, redirected little stream. 

Image of roman matron B1

Matrona furens

WHat does Thucydides say of Iliads historicity

aware it is embellished but key facts acceptable.

What was Naevius’ BEllum Punicum about

Punic War in which he fought

Feeney 1991 rel epic and history 

‘tangential relationship with reality’ 

JC as totality B3

omnia caesar erat

Final line of text

obsidit … calcantem moenia magnum

Fantham - L’s divinity 1992

‘nothing to do with justice or providence’

e.g gods pleased by Cato but still let him be defeated. 

WHat does Nigidius Figulus do in Book 1

rebukes the gods = anti-epic perspective

Henderson, 1987 what L offers

‘he offers you Death as the cultural wish of humanity

After BoPharsalia B7 - quasi-epicurean

Sunt nobis nulla profecto numina

Cato as both stoic and emotional

Act of devotio in 2 = stoic emphasis on suicide as libertas. but also emotional p assoc w metus in 2 and 9 and ira in 9

Echo of proemial q in B7 

‘quis furor, o caeci scelerum’

Civil War destroys itself B1

Certatum totis concussi viribus orbis/ in commune nefas

Mutable Rome B7,8,9

BoPhars hic Roma perit 7

8 Pomp Lesbos Cornelia hic mihi Roma fuit 

9 JC Troy ROmanaque Pergama surgent

Circularit of history - need for narrative to give meaning B7

tunc omne Latinum/ fabula nomen erit

Henderson 1987, L’s interetxt

‘parasitic’

Opening B2

indixitque nefas

roman epic text = fata - irony 

What intertexts does B2 rely on

JC’s accounts of marine siege technology and Pompe’s counter measures in commentarii de Belli Civilii

Witches breaking boundaries B6 - repulsive 

immersitque manus oculis gaudetque eglatos/ effodisse orbis