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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Una obra cumbre de la literatura universal. Se narra la guerra civil entre Julio César y Pompeyo Magno. Pero hay mucho más: Descripciones de personalidades únicas, localizaciones, mitos, costumbres, eventos, sobre la filosofía estoica, sobre la visión que tenían los romanos sobre sí mismos o sobre el joven sistema político imperial. Un escrito heroico, antimonárquico, que posiblemente le costó la vida a su autor. Una obra de lectura imprescindible y obligatoria. ( ) Marcus Lucanus (AD 39 - 65) was a rich Roman who penned this long poem about the Pompey/Caesar civil war as the ornament of his brief life. Once an intimate of the emperor Nero, he was involved in the Piso led conspiracy to rid Rome of that unfortunate emperor. He was forced to commit suicide by Nero, after implicating other conspirators. Now, to the poem. Sadly, this is a prose redaction of the Latin text into English prose by the English poet and novelist, Robert Graves, and is, I am sure accurate about language and emphasis. Though incomplete due to the death of the author, it is worth the read, though the ISBN given here is of a later publication by Penguin books. As a reader, I found it to be a pleasant experience. Reader CHARLTON GRIFFIN Translator J D DUFF Audio Connoisseur, 2017 Audiobook Digital File 10 hours 39 min Epics Date Completed 2021-01-09 Rating **** I have always been a fan of Julius Caesar and enjoyed reading how he put those effete and parasitic senators in their place. I didn’t much attention to the views of the other side. I have now heard them, and through an unexpected source. I learned through some algorithm that a poet named Lucan turned the history of the Civil War into an epic poem on the scale of Homer and Virgil. I thought at first (hoped? Expected?) that he had been forced to commit suicide at the age of 25 because the chief critic of the day, Nero, took exception to his take on his ancestor. According to Wikipedia, though, it seems that the youth was part of the conspiracy of 65 AD. Lucan never lets his reader forget that everything Julius Caesar did, from the Rubicon onwards, was illegal and, therefore, tyrannical. He doesn’t make Pompey come alive as a worthy opponent, despite referring to him as Magnus, spending a book on his death, underlining the nobility of his widow, etc. Caesar’s true antagonist is Cato the Younger, the embodiment of every virtue the old Romans admired. He becomes more than a marble model in book nine, where he is shown holding an army together after Pompey’s defeat and murder and setting so impressive an example of duty and self-control that a dying soldier would feel ashamed to groan in his presence. I was especially impressed that Cato felt that his patrician values made him feel bound to demand nothing of his men that he wouldn’t do. Lucan has many great set pieces: an official protected the treasury while letting the state go to heck; a Roman trying to learn his fate from the oracle at Delphi; Pompey’s unworthy son consulting a Thessalian witch before the climatic battle; Caesar crossing the sea at night during a storm; Cato marching his men through the snakes of the Libyan desert. Lucan was in the middle of describing another one, Caesar’s embattlement at Alexandria, when he was forced to end his work and his life. Lucan, like Homer especially, provided bloody battle descriptions, most effectively in the siege of Massilia, where he provides all the action a movie could desire. I wish I thought that the court poet had seen a battle himself. Lucan also provides many lessons in geography. I wished that I had made attention to them better. I had to wonder what living under Nero and treating this subject did to his soul. One character, after Pompey’s defeat, snarled that Chance, not Justice, ruled the world. I wondered if he believed that. A great listen, thanks again to that perfect reader of classical texts, the organ-voiced Charlton Griffin. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Avec le chant II de son epopee, Lucain nous plonge au coeur de la guerre civile a Rome, au premier siecle avant notre ere. Le poete traite plus particulierement de la phase italienne du conflit, depuis l'avancee de Cesar apres la prise d'Ariminum jusqu'a la fuite de Pompee hors d'Italie, lors du siege de Brindes. Les premiers temps de la guerre civile sont l'occasion pour Lucain de presenter tous les acteurs du conflit : les deux generaux, Cesar et Pompee, mais aussi Caton d'Utique, veritable icone de la sagesse stoicienne, et le peuple de Rome, en proie a la panique. Cet ouvrage presente une nouvelle edition du texte accompagnee d'une traduction inedite et d'un commentaire continu, insere au fil du texte, qui fait apparaitre la poetique originale de Lucain et les enjeux politiques et philosophiques de l'histoire. Florian Barriere, ancien eleve de l'Ecole normale superieure, agrege de lettres classiques, est maitre de conferences en langue et litterature latines a l'Universite Grenoble-Alpes. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)873.01Literature Latin Epic poetry, Latin to ca. 499, Roman periodClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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