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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Lucan"”.
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Epic of Civil War in Lucan, Statius and Silius Italicus
… poems composed in the mid-late first century AD: Lucan’s Pharsalia, Statius’ Thebaid and Silius’ Punica. A special contribution is given to the understanding of the Domitianic poems, the Thebaid and the Punica, in the light of their late-Neronian model, the Pharsalia. At the heart of this project …
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Science and Poetry in Imperial Rome: Manilius, Lucan, and the Aetna
… on three poetic texts: Manilius' Astronomica, Lucan's Civil War, and the anonymous Aetna. It argues that despite generic and thematic differences, these works participate in a common dialogue and therefore can benefit from being read side by side. In particular, the dissertation demonstrates …
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The Medieval Irish Adaptation of Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile: Manuscript Tradition and Scholarly Context
… thirteenth-century Irish prose adaptation of Lucan’s Bellum ciuile. It is divided into two parts: Part I (Chapters 1–2) examines the text of In Cath Catharda and its manuscript tradition, while Part II (Chapters 3–4) situates the adaptation within the European scholarly context in which the …
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Hostes deum: Magic in the literature of the Neronian period
… of the period, namely, Petronius, Seneca, and Lucan. It endeavors to trace possible echoes of popular beliefs about magic and real witchcraft practices of the 1st century C.E. in the text of the Satyrica, the Medea, and the Bellum Ciuile. This is done through a close reading of the relevant …
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Hero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni
… portrayals found in the works of Vergil, Lucan, and Suetonius. Each author's interpretation of Caesar was also impacted by the political and intellectual milieu in which he flourished. Analysis of Caesar's image over this time period serves not only as a part of Caesar historiography, but …
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The Year of Jubilee and Old Testament Ethics: A Test Case in Methodology
… and into the NT, predominantly focusing upon the Lucan corpus.
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A critical examination of the infancy narratives in the Gospels according to Matthew and Luke
… has been the linguistic origins of the Lucan infancy narrative. In more recent times the theory of midrashic creation has become popular. Redaction-criticism has brought the first step towards an exegesis of the infancy narratives which allows them to speak for themselves.
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The 'poor and the rich' in Luke-Acts : a socio-cultural and ideological analysis of Luke's social vision for the new Christian community
… society gave rise to a particular type of Lucan ideology which aimed to secure and legitimate the role and place of the poor in the Christian community. Within this process I will trace the traditional understanding of wealth and possessions within the Greco- Roman world and link it to the …
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Julius Caesar in Medieval France: The Textual Sources and Iconography of the <i>Faits des Romains</i>
… principally through the writings of Sallust and Lucan, both of which were used as texts in the schools. Not only was close familiarity with Caesar confined to the formally educated, but his image was defined almost exclusively by these two texts . Because neither of these works is devoted …
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Defining functional microbiomes of wheat (Triticum aestivum) and maize (Zea mays), under regenerative management practices, in South Africa
Soil microbiomes are complex, interconnected assemblages of microorganisms that underpin fundamental ecosystem processes, including nutrient cycling, pathogen and drought resistance, and soil structural development. Despite their central role in ecosystem functioning, the dynamics of soil …
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Ille Dies Primus Leti: Echoes of Dido in the Bellum Civile
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Julius Caesar, Fortune, and Latin Historiography in Twelfth-Century England
This thesis suggests that four twelfth-century English historians – Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Robert of Lewes (as probable author of the Gesta Stephani) – believed that they had identified a schema that could determine who and what was culpable for engendering …