Review: Momentary Monsters: Lucan and His Heroes

John F Makowski

doi:10.2307/4350457

Review: Momentary Monsters: Lucan and His Heroes

John F Makowski

Department of Classical Studies

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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.

Original language	American English
Journal	Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Volume	82
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/4350457
State	Published - Jul 1 1989

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