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„Zweimal Emathien“: Das Proöm zu Lucans Bellum Ciuile und die Georgica Vergils

  • Ruurd Nauta
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Abstract

In this contribution, I begin by studying the systematic allusions in the proem to Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile (1.1-66) to Virgil’s Georgics, not only to the beginning of the first book, where Augustus’ apotheosis is predicted just as Nero’s is in Lucan, but more specifically to the end of that book, with its depiction of civil war and its resumption of the theme of apotheosis, now presented as a reward for the ruler who manages to end civil war. Other Augustan poems alluded to by Lucan, Ovid’s Fasti and Manilius’ Astronomica, take over from the Georgics the combination of these themes at the beginnings and endings of their first books, and so does Lucan. The most fascinating aspect of his appropriation of Georgics 1 is perhaps the way that he anticipates recent scholarship in interpreting Virgil’s charioteer losing control over his horses as Phaethon, an emblem for the irresponsible ruler, and incorporates this in his praise of Nero. I discuss, but reject modern views that see the Phaethon-motif in Lucan as subversive, but I do argue that Lucan replays the proem in Book 7, in what may be considered a ‘proem in the middle’, with a pointedly different conclusion: apotheosis is still the consequence of civil war, but now no longer as a reward for the ruler, but as a punishment for the gods.

Abstract

In this contribution, I begin by studying the systematic allusions in the proem to Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile (1.1-66) to Virgil’s Georgics, not only to the beginning of the first book, where Augustus’ apotheosis is predicted just as Nero’s is in Lucan, but more specifically to the end of that book, with its depiction of civil war and its resumption of the theme of apotheosis, now presented as a reward for the ruler who manages to end civil war. Other Augustan poems alluded to by Lucan, Ovid’s Fasti and Manilius’ Astronomica, take over from the Georgics the combination of these themes at the beginnings and endings of their first books, and so does Lucan. The most fascinating aspect of his appropriation of Georgics 1 is perhaps the way that he anticipates recent scholarship in interpreting Virgil’s charioteer losing control over his horses as Phaethon, an emblem for the irresponsible ruler, and incorporates this in his praise of Nero. I discuss, but reject modern views that see the Phaethon-motif in Lucan as subversive, but I do argue that Lucan replays the proem in Book 7, in what may be considered a ‘proem in the middle’, with a pointedly different conclusion: apotheosis is still the consequence of civil war, but now no longer as a reward for the ruler, but as a punishment for the gods.

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  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Inhalt VII
  3. Vorwort XI
  4. Laudatio XIII
  5. Kurzvita XVII
  6. Schriftenverzeichnis von Christiane Reitz XIX
  7. Tabula gratulatoria XXVII
  8. Autorenverzeichnis XXXIII
  9. Teil I: Die Tradition der epischen Dichtung von Homer bis Milton: Ambivalentes Heldentum und der epische Raum
  10. Einleitung 3
  11. Phoinix über die Verblendung des Helden 7
  12. Aeneas and Octavian: The Sharing of Epic Identity 37
  13. Resonantia saxa – Scylla und die Mauern von Megara (Ov. Met. 8.6–154) 71
  14. Iterum Philippi. La ‘doppiezza di Filippi’ da Virgilio a Lucano 91
  15. „Zweimal Emathien“: Das Proöm zu Lucans Bellum Ciuile und die Georgica Vergils 121
  16. Killed by Friendly Fire. Divine Scheming and Fatal Miscommunication in Valerius Flaccus’ Cyzicus Episode 145
  17. La mort de Tydée dans la Thébaïde de Stace 181
  18. Regulus and the Inconsistencies of Fame in Silius Italicus’ Punica 201
  19. The Vertical Axis in Classical and Post- Classical Epic 219
  20. Teil II: Literarische Autorität: Dichter, Gattungskonventionen und Erneuerung
  21. Einleitung 241
  22. Numerosus Horatius. Metren und inhaltliche Bezüge im ersten Odenbuch des Horaz 245
  23. The Po(e)ts and Pens of Persius’ Third Satire (The Waters of Roman Satire, Part 2) 267
  24. Schlaflos mit Kallimachos. Eine Interpretation von Stat. Silv. 5.4 285
  25. Enthüllte Göttinnen. Der Blick des Dichters (Ovid und Kallimachos) 311
  26. Macht und Übermacht der Tradition. Dichterkataloge in der lateinischen Literatur von Ovid bis Sidonius 335
  27. Der Mythos von Orpheus und Eurydice bei Ovid und Boethius 359
  28. Apuleius in France: La Fontaine’s Psyché and its Apuleian Model 385
  29. Rote Schafe, Goldene Zeit. Ein märchenhaftes Motiv bei Homer, Vergil und Voltaire 401
  30. Eduard Mörikes Roman von Cerinthus und Sulpicia 419
  31. Teil III: Wissensvermittlung in Text und Bild: Rhetorische Exemplarität und didaktische exempla
  32. Einleitung 449
  33. nempe exemplis discimus. Tradition und Beispiel bei Phaedrus (3.9) 455
  34. The Poetry of Animals in Love. A Reading of Oppian’s Halieutica and Cynegetica 473
  35. Beyond the Fence. Columella’s Garden 501
  36. Zur Vereinbarkeit von ratio und reuerentia in Columellas Umgang mit Vergil 515
  37. A Lesson from the East: A New Pattern of Virility in Ovid’s Fasti 547
  38. Mit Alexander dem Großen und Albinovanus Pedo am Ende der Welt 575
  39. The ‘Controversial’ Continence of Scipio in Literature and Art: Gellius’ Noctes Atticae and Nicolò dell’Abate 595
  40. Titi summa clementia. Unbeachtete Zeugen für ein sprichwörtliches Herrscherbild 617
  41. Disertus vel desertus (Aug. Conf. 2.3.5) 637
  42. The Endeavours and exempla of the German Refugee Classicists Eva Lehmann Fiesel and Ruth Fiesel 655
  43. Bibliography 689
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