Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 1977

Publication Title

The American Journal of Philology

Volume

98

Issue

2

Pages

192-194

Publisher Name

Johns Hopkins University Press

Abstract

Frederick M. Ahl, well known to the scholar of Lucan through his recent articles on the Pharsalia, here undertakes to introduce the poet to a wider audience. He directs his work "to the Latinless reader as well as to the classicist." Both should welcome the effort, since even for the Latinist, Lucan's reputation has steadily declined from the time when Dante ranked him among the four great poets of antiquity. A book of an introductory nature has been long overdue, especially in the English speaking world where the last major study was Mark Morford's very fine The Poet Lucan.

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Author Posting. © The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. This article is posted here by permission of the Johns Hopkins University Press for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in The American Journal of Philology, Volume 98, Issue 2, 1977. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/293727

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