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Lucanian Pragmatism and the Manilian Cosmos: Celestial Aspect and Positioning in Lucan's Invocation to Nero.

Lucan's invocation to Nero (1.33-66) is notorious for its seemingly contradictory praise and condemnation of the emperor. While analyses of this passage often turn to Virgil's Georgics (1.24-28, 489-497, 500-515) to begin to explain this inherent paradox, Grimal (2010) has demonstrated the importanc...

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Published in:Mnemosyne Vol. 77; no. 4; pp. 642 - 666
Main Author: Sanderson, Elaine C.
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2024
Subjects:
Pragmatism
Georgics (Poem : Virgil)
Astronomica (Poem)
Manilius, Marcus
Apotheosis
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