Momentary Monsters
Lucan and His Heroes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3185262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John F Makowski (Loyola University Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 447 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Momentary monsters: Lucan and his heroes, W R Johnson, 1987 |
| Venue | The Classical World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8418 • E-ISSN: 1558-9234 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4350457 |
| OpenAlex | W837886128 |
| Language | EN |
Laughter in Lucan? Johnson takes the laughing matter of Lucan seriously, and with mordant wit and cynical humor presents an original and provocative reading of the Pharsalia as Lucan's black comedy-full of hilarity, farce, high camp, and cartoon-like caricature sardonic laughter at the dread seriousness of what Rome had become under Nero with its loss of freedom and pessimism unto despair
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Lucan's Bellum Civile
Caesar in Vergil and Lucan
Senecan Drama and the Age of Nero
Speeches in the Commentarii
Lucan’s Civil War in Nero’s Rome
Caesar and Roman Historiography Prior to the Commentarii
Burning Rome, Burning Christians
The Politics of Geography
Anticato
Staging Nero
Priesthoods, Gods, and Stars
Art and the Decadent City
Resurgences of Nero in the Enlightenment
Literary Approaches to Caesar
Caesar’s Orations
Narrating the Gallic and Civil Wars with and beyond Caesar
Seneca and the Quest for Glory in Nero’s Golden Age
Post-Augustan Revisionism
Nero’s Women
Caesar, Literature, and Politics at the End of the Republic
Caesar Constructing Caesar
Nero’s Imperial Administration
Caesar and Greek Historians
Genres and Generic Contaminations
Wit and Irony
The Corpus Caesarianum
“Ain’t Sayin’”
Apuleius' Invisible Ass
Explorations in Latin Literature
Petronius, Realism, Nero
Philosophers and the State under Nero
The Neronian “Symptom”
Nero in Hollywood
Caesar in Livy and Tacitus
Persius on Stoic Poetics
Writing War with Caesar
Introduction
Nero’s Memory in Flavian Rome
Nero
Nero the Performer
Bodies Piled High
The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero
The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic
Empire and Memory
A Wor(l)d beside Itself
Female agents of Hell, Stoic luxury, and failing leaders
Lucan in the Renaissance, pre-1625
Statius' Thebaid / Form premade
Reading Roman Pride
Lucanian Pragmatism and the Manilian Cosmos
Laying it on with a Trowel
Cornelia and Dido (Lucan 9.174–9)
Competing Endings
Persius' Didactic Satire
Knowledge, Fear, and Snakes
Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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