Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
7-1989
Publication Title
The Classical World
Volume
82
Issue
6
Pages
447
Publisher Name
Johns Hopkins University Press
Abstract
Laughter in Lucan? Johnson takes the laughing matter of Lucan seriously, and with mordant wit and cynical humor presents an original and provocative reading of the Pharsalia as Lucan's black comedy-full of hilarity, farce, high camp, and cartoon-like caricature sardonic laughter at the dread seriousness of what Rome had become under Nero with its loss of freedom and pessimism unto despair.
Recommended Citation
Makowski, JF. "Review: Momentary Monsters: Lucan and His Heroes" in Classical World 82(6). 447.
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Comments
Author Posting. © Classical Association of the Atlantic States, 1989. This article is posted by permission of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States for personal use, not for redistribution. It was published in The Classical World, Volume 82, Issue 6, Jul.-Aug., 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4350457