A View To a Kill-Lucan’s Amphitheatrical Audience

In the previous two chapters, different modes of spectacle have been investigated—modes which traditionally serve to communicate a shared and stable ideology but which civil war leaves fractured and dysfunctional. Whether the issue is the collection of scars, battle under the eyes of the general, or the exemplary display of virtus. Lucan’s Scaeva scene has a central position.

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