Lucano, ›Bellum Civile‹ VIII

In the flourishing revival of commentaries on Lucan's Bellum Civile over the last two decades, Book VIII had not yet received an interest commensurate with its decisive importance in the overall structure of the poem: until now, the only comprehensive exegetical tools available to scholars remained those of J. P. Postgate (1917) and R. Mayer (1981), now inevitably dated. This new commentary, accompanied by an extensive introduction, a critically revised text and a 'service' translation conceived