Knowledge, Fear, and Snakes: The Influence of Nicander on Lucan's Bellum civile Book 9.
This paper reexamines the literary influence of Nicander's Theriaca on the snake episode in Lucan's Bellum civile Book 9. Although often cited as an early zoological source, Nicander's contributions to the aesthetic and thematic aspects of Lucan's epic have gone largely overlooked. While his zoologi...
| Publicado en: | Classical Philology Vol. 119; no. 3; pp. 376 - 398 |
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