This paper aims to analyse the influence of Germanicus’ Phaenomena on Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile. After a brief survey on astronomical reminiscences, I focus on sections relating to the dismantling of the Augustan ideology discourse (Lucan. i 143-157 and vii 860-868), where Lucan evokes Germanicus with an interesting antiphrastic attitude. Beneath the surface of Germanicus’ work, light is cast on Lucan’s reception of Augustus’ Res Gestae (especially in Lucan. v 372-373). The last section of the article is devoted to Lucan’s claim of immortality and its literary sources (Lucan ix 980-986): among Virgil, Ennius and Ovid, we can also appreciate the presence of Germanicus’ poetic self-representation

«Caesareae domus series». Cesare, Augusto e... Germanico nel Bellum ciuile di Lucano

Adalberto Magnavacca
2020

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This paper aims to analyse the influence of Germanicus’ Phaenomena on Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile. After a brief survey on astronomical reminiscences, I focus on sections relating to the dismantling of the Augustan ideology discourse (Lucan. i 143-157 and vii 860-868), where Lucan evokes Germanicus with an interesting antiphrastic attitude. Beneath the surface of Germanicus’ work, light is cast on Lucan’s reception of Augustus’ Res Gestae (especially in Lucan. v 372-373). The last section of the article is devoted to Lucan’s claim of immortality and its literary sources (Lucan ix 980-986): among Virgil, Ennius and Ovid, we can also appreciate the presence of Germanicus’ poetic self-representation
2020
Settore L-FIL-LET/04 - Lingua e Letteratura Latina
Lucan; Caesar; Augustus; Germanicus; Virgil; Ovid; Res gestae; Propertius; Horace
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