Why Lucan’s Pompey is better off dead

• Seán Easton ^[1]
  1. [1] Gustavus Adolphus College

     Gustavus Adolphus College

     City of Saint Peter, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Classical journal, ISSN 0009-8353, Vol. 107, Nº 2, 2012, págs. 212-223
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The unexpected return of Lucan’s Pompey to civil war as a ghost (9.1-18) leads to newfound success vis-à-vis enemies and allies alike. The language and imagery of this postmortem narrative revisits the portrait of Pompey’s decline in Books 1-2, where it activates a latent theme of victorious return in spite of death. Pompey’s acts of possession as a ghost further intensify the impact of his return, insinuating his presence into the subsequent history of Roman resistance to Caesarism.