"Nefas civil y novitas genérica en Lucano, B.C. 4"

ELEONORA TOLA

Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica

Casa Editrice Loescher

Lugar: Torino; Año: 2016 vol. 144 p. 54 - 76

0035-6220

Lucan´s Bellum Ciuile focalizes the unnatural aspects of fratricidal war, and displays the inconsistencies of narrating a bellum impium in the heroic code. From a stylistic and poetic approach, this article shows that two short scenes which frame the collective suicide encouraged by Vulteius in Book 4 (408-426) can be read in a programmatic way. They establish some stylistic features that redefine the exemplary implications of the following events through a system of textual associations whose sense is activated within and beyond Lucan´s poem.