Ovid in Lucan: The Poetics of Instability

Alison Keith

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Ovid in Lucan: The Poetics of Instability

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Pages:: 111–132

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004217096_007

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After Vergil’s Aeneid, no text so thoroughly informed the early imperial Roman literary imagination as Ovid’s Metamorphoses (published 8 AD). This chapter examines the impact of the literary and imperial programs of the Metamorphoses on Lucan’s civil war poem, for the Bellum Ciuile is the first example of largescale negotiation of the Aeneid through the lens of the Metamorphoses. I argue that Lucan draws on Ovidian subjects, themes and poetic techniques to trace fissures in the optimistic Virgilian epic paradigm.

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Brill's Companion to Lucan

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004217096

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2011

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- Classical Studies
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  - Greek & Latin Literature

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