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    Cover image for The Taste for Nothingness: A Study of Virtus and Related Themes in Lucan's Bellum Civile
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    The Taste for Nothingness: A Study of Virtus and Related Themes in Lucan’s Bellum Civile

    Robert Sklenar

    Applies a close-reading methodology to Lucan’s Bellum Civile to analyse Lucan’s distortions of traditional epic forms. Sklenar’s work not only illuminates many passages of this author for classicists but also…

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    Plant of a Strange Vine: >Oratio Corrupta< and the Poetics of Senecan Tragedy

    Robert John Sklenar

    Using the Oedipus as a test case, this book proposes that Seneca’‘s tragedies exemplify Seneca’s own theory of literary decadence as expressed in his 114th letter to Lucilius. Seneca is…

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