Amor Belli – Love and Strife in Lucan`s Bellum Civile Celotto Hardback

Amor BelliLove and Strife in Lucan's Bellum Civile\nAuthor(s): Giulio Celotto\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472132874, 978-0472132874\nSynopsis\nCompelled by the emperor Nero to commit suicide at age 25 after writing uncomplimentary poems, Latin poet Lucan nevertheless left behind a significant body of work, including the Bellum Civile (Civil War). Sometimes also called the Pharsalia, this epic describes the war between Julius Caesar and [url] Giulio Celotto provides an interpretation of this civil war based on the examination of an aspect completely neglected by previous scholarship: Lucans literary adaptation of the cosmological dialectic of Love and Strife.\n\nAccording to a reading that has found favor over the last three decades, the poem is an unconventional epic that does not conform to Aristotelian norms: Lucan composes a poem characterized by fragmentation and disorder, l.