LUCAN

(Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)looˈkən, a.d. 39–a.d. 65, Latin poet, b. Córdoba, Spain, nephew of the philosopher Seneca. At first in Nero's favor, he was later forced to kill himself when his part in a plot against the emperor was discovered. Ten books of his epic Bellum Civile (on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey), erroneously called Pharsalia, survive. Though the poem is written in a severe style and is often digressive and extravagant, it has a kind of vigorous beauty and grandeur, which gave Lucan a high place in the esteem of later writers.

See study by F. M. Ahl (1976); translations by J. D. Duff (1977), P. F. Widdows (1988), and S. H. Brand (1992).

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Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement
Book by Matthew Leigh; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Epic Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Lucan--39-65--Pharsalia, Pharsalus, Battle Of, 48 B.C., In Literature, Rome--History--Civil War, 49-45 B.C--Literature And The War
...J. 1983 , "The Oak and the Lightning: Lucan, Bellum Civile 1. 135-57", Athenaeum...Cambridge . Rutz, W. 1960 , "Amor Mortis bei Lucan", Hermes , 88: 462-75. -- 1970a , "Lucan und die Rhetorik", in Entretiens de la Fondation...
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The Pharsalia of Lucan: Literally Translated into English Prose with Copious Notes
Book by H. T. Riley; Henry G. Bohn, 1853
Subjects: Pharsalus, Battle Of, 48 B.C, Rome--History--Civil War, 49-48 B.C
...soldiers, 279 ; his words, as alleged by Lucan, to Domitius when dying, 281 ; encourages...378 ; his writings probably alluded to by Lucan, ib .; visits Troy, ib .; promises...mind the valour of Scaeva, ib . See also Lucan and Pompey. Caesars Commentaries quoted...
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Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's Civil War
Book by Shadi Bartsch; Harvard University Press, 1997
Subjects: Epic Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Lucan--39-65--Pharsalia, Rome--History--Civil War, 49-45 B.C--Literature And The War
...1983. "The Oak and the Lightning: Lucan, Bellum Civile 1.135-57." Athenaeum...1969. "The Significance of Massilia in Lucan." Hermes 97: 204-208. Rudich, Vassily...Rutz, Werner. 1960. "Amor Mortis bei Lucan." Hermes 88: 462-475. 1963. "Der...
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Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus
Book by Ellen O'Gorman; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Irony, Rhetoric, Ancient, Rome--Historiography, Tacitus, Cornelius--Annales, Tacitus, Cornelius--Technique
...goes on to delineate a hostility between Lucan and Nero which is derived precisely from...eminent. Personal reasons were firing up Lucan, because Nero was suppressing the fame...vainglorious in his comparison of himself to Lucan . 24 The meaning of vanus here, as full...
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Roman Epic
Book by A. J. Boyle; Routledge, 1996
...conspiracy to kill Nero in 65 CE, in which Lucan was deeply involved, may have been a relief...ideological passion for liberty, drove Lucan into the Pisonian conspiracy. When the plot was discovered, Lucan, he adds, cracked under interrogation...
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journal articles on: Lucan  - 167 results

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"By Lucan Driv'n About": A Jonsonian Marvell's Lucanic Milton
Journal article by Andrew Shifflett; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 49, 1996
Subjects: Marvell, Andrew--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
"By Lucan drivn about": A Jonsonian Marvells Lucanic...chosen Friend, The learned Translator of Lucan, Thomas May, Esquire." The translation...the slippery staire Of Fortunes wheele by Lucan drivn about, And the world in it, I begin...
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Caveats to Authority
Journal article by Lucan A. Way; Harvard International Review, Vol. 32, 2010
Subjects: Authoritarianism--Analysis, Brownlee, Jason--Authorship, College faculty--Authorship, College teachers--Authorship, Democracy--Analysis, Democracy--Cuba, Democracy--Russia, Democracy--United States, Political literature--Criticism and interpretation, Political science literature--Criticism and interpretation, Politics in literature--Criticism and interpretation
Caveats to Authority. by Lucan A. Way In his Winter 2010 article "Authoritarianism after 1989...to be central to our understanding of politics for years to come. LUCAN A.WAY Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto...
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Ronald Dworkin, T.H. Green, and the Communal Theory of Political Obligation
Journal article by Lucan Gregory; Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 32, 2006
Subjects: Dworkin, Ronald M.--Works, Green, Thomas Hill--Works, Political philosophy--Analysis, Political science--Analysis, Political science--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...Green, and the Communal Theory of Political Obligation. by Lucan Gregory 1. Introduction (1) Associative theories of political...reviewers of Social Theory and Practice for their suggestions. Lucan Gregory Department of Philosophy University of Virginia ljg4a...
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Lessons in Leadership: the Battle of Balaklava, 1854
Journal article by Anna Maria Brudenell; Military Review, Vol. 88, 2008
Subjects: Armed forces, Leadership, Light Brigade
...lieutenant General George Bingham, the Earl of Lucan. Lucans Heavy Brigade was commanded by...Brudenell, the Earl of Cardigan. Cardigan and Lucan loathed each other, and their mutual hatred...from being conveyed accurately through Lucan to Cardigan and the Light Brigade. All...
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The Double Visions of Pompey and Caesar
Journal article by John L. Penwill; Antichthon, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Books, Epic literature, Poetry, Roman civilization
...from all sides war. Like Plutarch, Lucan locates the scene in the Theatre of Pompey...he set such store, and the reason why Lucan is so extravagant in his description of...to Caesar. As stated at the beginning, Lucan has framed his account of Caesar with two...
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Why the Welsh Are Doing a Lucan
Magazine article by Paul Starling; New Statesman, Vol. 129, August 14, 2000
Subjects: Autonomy--Wales, Blair, Tony--Political activity, Davies, Ron--Political activity, United Kingdom--Politics and government, Wales--Autonomy and independence movements
Why the Welsh are doing a Lucan. by Paul Starling Devolution was Blairs Big Idea, but Wales has...recess. Some of the 60 assembly members will be considering "doing a Lucan": leaving their clothes at the seas edge and disappearing without...
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From the Hotline
Magazine article by Alice Neff Lucan, Tonda Rush; News Media and the Law, Vol. 28, Spring 2004
Subjects: Attorneys, Freedom of the press, Journalism, Media coverage
From the Hotline by Alice Neff Lucan , Tonda Rush The Reporters Committee operates a toll-free hotline...are not necessarily the best sources of information. Alice Neff Lucan practices media law in Washington, D. C., in a solo practice...
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Between National Division and Rapacious Individualism: Ukraine before and after the Orange Revolution
Magazine article by Lucan A. Way; The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 14, Spring 2008
Between National Division and Rapacious Individualism: Ukraine before and after the Orange Revolution by Lucan A. Way Since 1991, Ukraine has experienced dynamic political competition with the growth of a relatively powerful parliament...
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Exhuming the Buried Past; in the K.G.B. Files
Magazine article by Lucan Way; The Nation, Vol. 256, March 1, 1993
Subjects: Communist Party (Soviet Union)--History, Soviet Union. KGB--Records and correspondence
Exhuming the Buried Past; in the K.G.B. Files. by Lucan Way In a small, crowded room near the coatrack at K.G.B. headquarters, the worlds most notorious secret service is finally...
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Aiding and Abetting
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, February 2001
Subjects: American fiction
...1970s, you remember the criminal Lord Lucan as a great two-for-one figure in the...imagined, had been extinct for decades), Lucan in the fall of 1974 attempted to bludgeon...he mistook the childrens nanny for Lady Lucan. He ended up killing the nanny, Sandra...
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THE LUCAN FILES; Tomorrow Is the 35th Anniversary of the Death of Sandra Rivett, Nanny to Lord Lucan's Three Children. That Night, the Earl Disappeared and Has Never Been Found. New Research Suggests That, Were He to Stand Trial for Murder Today, He Would Almost Certainly Be Acquitted. Keith Dovkants, Who Followed the Original Investigation as a Young Reporter, Takes a Fresh Look at a Cold Case
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 6, 2009
Subjects: Journalists--Investigations, Murder--Investigations
THE LUCAN FILES; Tomorrow Is the 35th Anniversary...children of Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan. The officers who opened the mailbag did...skull had been smashed to a pulp. Countess Lucan, the Earls wife, was also battered and...
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Lucan, Nessie and the Death of Discretion
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 15, 2011
Lucan, Nessie and the Death of Discretion. Byline: Craig Brown HAS LIFE...is why it came as a shock to me the other day to discover that Lady Lucan, the widow of Lord Lucan, and for a long time a paragon of reticence, has for some years...
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LUCAN 'LIVING IN LAND ROVER'; Possum Possibility: The Man, Roger Woodgate, Has an Upper-Class Accent and Military Bearing. He Lives in a Land Rover in a Remote Area of New Zealand ; Vanished: Lord Lucan with Lady Lucan ; Thirty-Year Riddle: Nanny Sandra Rivett; Jungly Barry Was Mistaken for Lucan; One Computer Image of How the Earl Might Look Now
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 9, 2007
LUCAN LIVING IN LAND ROVER; Possum Possibility: The Man, Roger Woodgate...Lives in a Land Rover in a Remote Area of New Zealand ; Vanished: Lord Lucan with Lady Lucan ; Thirty-Year Riddle: Nanny Sandra Rivett; Jungly Barry Was Mistaken...
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The Evidence That Points to Where Lucan Really Is; Keeping Quiet: Lucan's Friend Greville Howard and Right, the Runaway Earl with His Wife Veronica before the Manhunt: Lord Lucan Pictured Relaxing in Acapulco with Lady Annabel Birley, Later the Wife of Sir James Goldsmith. She Is One of His Few Close Friends Who Is Still Alive
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 10, 2007
The Evidence That Points to Where Lucan Really Is; Keeping Quiet: Lucans Friend...Wife Veronica before the Manhunt: Lord Lucan Pictured Relaxing in Acapulco with Lady...Alive. Byline: KEITH DOVKANTS SO LORD Lucan is not, after all, calling himself Roger...
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SIX REASONS WHY LUCKY LUCAN LIVES ON IN AFRICA; LUCAN Did Not Own Any Sort of Powerboat. NO Boats Were Reported Missing at the Time He Vanished. STORMS Stopped All Vessels Leaving Newhaven after the Murder. He Would Have Been Spotted at Once. WHERE Did Aspinall Get His Details from? WHY Did He Say Nothing before? LUCAN'S Notes to Friends after He Fled Were Far from Suicidal. Cop Blasts Drowning Theory
Newspaper article by Tom Newton Dunn; The Mirror (London, England), February 15, 2000
SIX REASONS WHY LUCKY LUCAN LIVES ON IN AFRICA; LUCAN Did Not Own Any Sort of Powerboat. NO Boats Were Reported...THE policeman who spent six years hunting for missing Lord Lucan yesterday dismissed claims that the peer drowned himself in...
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encyclopedia articles on: Lucan  - 11 results

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Lucan, Patrick Sarsfield, Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LUCAN, PATRICK SARSFIELD, EARL OF see Sarsfield, Patrick, earl of Lucan . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Lucan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LUCAN (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)loo k n, a.d. 39 a.d. 65, Latin poet...and extravagant, it has a kind of vigorous beauty and grandeur, which gave Lucan a high place in the esteem of later writers. See study by F. M. Ahl (1976...
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Sarsfield, Patrick, Earl of Lucan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SARSFIELD, PATRICK, EARL OF LUCAN sars feld, loo k n, d. 1693, Irish Jacobite general. A firm supporter of James II, he went with him into exile. He commanded...
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Caledonia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...that part of the island of Great Britain that lies N of the firths of Clyde and Forth. The name first occurs in the works of Lucan (1st cent. a.d.) and has been used in modern times rhetorically and poetically to mean all of Scotland or the Scottish...
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Housman, A. E
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...classical scholars of his time. He produced a monumental edition of Manilius (5 vol., 1903 30), edited Juvenal (1905) and Lucan (1926), and wrote valuable classical studies. But it is as a poet that he is best known, although only two small volumes...
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