← Table of contents
A literary history of Rome in the Silver Age

Note 852 — Chapter VI · LUCAN: HISTORICAL EPIC

Reading edition

Text: Ed. pr., Rome, 1469; Grotius, Antw., 1614, 1625, 1639; Farnaby, Eng. ed., 1618; Amst., 1715; Korrte (= Cortius), 1726; Oudendorp (index), Leyd., 1728; Burman, Leyd., 1740; c. notis Grotii et Bentleii, Strawb. Hill, 1760; Glasg., 1816; Weber, 3 vols., Lpz., 1821-1831 (scholia and Korrte’s comment.); Lemaire, 2 vols., 1830-1832; Weise, 1835; Haskins (introd. by Heitland), Lond., 1887; Hosius, Lpz., 1892 and 1905; ed. 3, 1913; Francken, 2 vols., Leyd., 1896-1897 (bibliog.); Heitland in Postgate’s C.P.L., 1905; Housman, Oxf., 1926. Bk. I., Lejay, Par., 1894 (important introd.); VII., Postgate, Camb., 1896; VIII., do., 1917. Fragments: Bährens’s Frag. P. Rom., 1886, pp. 365-368. Transns. into verse: Gorges, 1614 [rare]; May, 1627, ed. 2, 1631 (heroic couplets); Rowe, 1719 (heroic couplets); Ridley, 1896 (blank). Studies, etc.: Weber, Vitae Lucani collectae, progr., Marb., 1856-1858. Genthe, De Luc. uita et scriptis, diss., Berl., 1859; Scholia uet. e codice Montepessulano, 1868; Usener, Commenta Bernensia, 1869; Nisard, Études ... sur les poètes latins de la décadence, ed. 3, 1867, ii. pp. 85-454, ed. 4, 1878. On hist. sources: Baier, De Liuio Lucani ... auctore, diss., Bresl., 1874; Singels, De L. fontibus et fide, diss., Leyd., 1884; Westerburg, Luc. Florus und Pseudo-Victor, Rh. Mus., xxxviii. pp. 34-39; Giani, La Farsaglia, etc., Turin, 1888; Ziehen, Luc., als Historiker in Berichte d. freien Hochstiftes, Frankft.-a-M., 1890; Vitelli, Sulla composizione e publicazione della Fars. in Studi italiani di fil. class., VIII. pp. 33-72, 1900; Studi sulle storiche fonti della Fars., op. cit. X. pp. 359-429; Ussani, Sul valore storico del poema Lucaneo in Atti del congresso internaz. di scienze storiche, II. iv., Rome, 1903; Jullian, Lucain historien in Rev. des Études anciennes, Bord., I. 4, 1900. On philos. sources: Souriau, De deorum ministeriis in Phars., thèse, Par., 1885; Oettl, Lucans philosophische Weltanschauung, prog., Brixen, 1888; Millard, Lucani sententia de deis et fato, diss., Utr., 1891. On lit. sources: Diels, Seneca und L., Abhandl. der Berl. Akad., 1886; Hosius, L. u. seine Quellen, Rh. Mus., XLVIII. pp. 380-397, 1893; Heitland’s introd., Haskins’s ed., pp. cviii.-cxxxi. On the whole question of sources: Pichon, Les Sources de L., Par., 1912; on Stoicism in general: E. V. Arnold, Roman Stoicism, Camb., 1911.

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings