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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| Format: | Thesis (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/72102/ |