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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Pharsalia"”.
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Epic of Civil War in Lucan, Statius and Silius Italicus
… 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 lies the …
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African-Virginian Extended Kin: The Prevalence of West African Family Forms among Slaves in Virginia, 1740-1870
… a single plantation. William Massie's plantation Pharsalia, located in Nelson County, Virginia, is the focus of my study of intra-plantation webs of kin. Finally, I examine the years after the Civil War to illustrate that even under freedom, former slaves resorted to their extended families for …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
… as epic figures such as Lucan’s Erictho in the Pharsalia, are informed by the Night Witch paradigm. Through close textual analysis of these various sources, I will illustrate how the concept of Night Witch permeated the Roman mind and literature, as well as investigate the origin and collection …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
… as epic figures such as Lucan’s Erictho in the Pharsalia, are informed by the Night Witch paradigm. Through close textual analysis of these various sources, I will illustrate how the concept of Night Witch permeated the Roman mind and literature, as well as investigate the origin and collection …
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Female characterisation in the epic poetry of P. Papinius Statius
… Argonautica, Lucan's politico-historical Pharsalia and Silius Italicus' Punica. In analysing the presentation of heroines and goddesses in the Thebaid, little attempt is made to divine a method or spirit of characterisation "common" to both poems. Rather, the contrast between the portrayal …
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Science and Poetry in Imperial Rome: Manilius, Lucan, and the Aetna
This dissertation examines the relationship between scientific inquiry and hexameter poetry at Rome in the first century CE. It focuses on three poetic texts: Manilius' Astronomica, Lucan's Civil War, and the anonymous Aetna. It argues that despite generic and thematic differences, these works …