Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's Civil War

by Shadi Bartsch

Is Lucan's brilliant and grotesque epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that despairingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers a startlingly new answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus.

Reflecting on the disintegration of the Roman republic in the wake of the civil war that began in 49 B.C., Lucan (writing during the grim tyranny of Nero's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674005503
• ISBN13: 9780674005501
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.9"