Communication failure and civil war in Virgil’s Aeneid, Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile and Statius’ Thebaid

This thesis explores the presence and significance of scenes of communication failure in three Latin epics. It argues for a connection between these episodes based on the poems’ shared interest in the experience of civil war, which, as the first chapter establishes, results from the recurrence of ci...

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Main Author: Chhibber, Ashley
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/72102/