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28 mai 2014
- doi: 10.4000/books.chbeck.1439
- isbn: 9783406625596
- eisbn: 9782821846326
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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vergleichende Literaturgeschichte Epik Schicksal Gott Mensch Classics Literary Reviews PHI007000 HPSujets proches
Chrestomathies and readers Conation Volition Cetanā Preschool readers English language--Chrestomathies English language--Readers Chrestomathies Judgement Divine beings Divinities Deities Earth Shape Forms (Shapes) Influence and results Supplies Apparatus and supplies Apparatus Apparatus and equipmentCiter ce document
Shadi Bartsch, « Ethical Judgment and Narratorial Apostrophe in Lucan’s Bellum Civile », C.H.Beck, ID : 10.4000/books.chbeck.1439
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Scholars of the Bellum Civile have often remarked that the Olympian gods are absent from the epic’s action. In contrast to Lucan’s antecedent, the Aeneid, and to the epic tradition itself, the workings of the divine apparatus here remain invisible to the readers, the characters, and our intrusive narrator alike; at no point in the poem does the will of any Olympian shape the outcome of the narrative; at no point does an Olympian god alight on earth to influence the action. It has been less of...