Reading Roman Civil War in Iceland: Rómverja Saga and the Reimagining of Lucanian Ambiguity
Lucan’s Bellum Civile has long been read through the disjointed persona of its emotional narrator. In its unique adaptation of Lucan’s epic, the medieval Icelandic Rómverja saga (The Saga of the Romans) turns this distinctive equivocation on its head. This paper considers how Rómverja saga adapts tw...
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ftsbaarhusojs:oai:ojs.tidsskrift.dk:article/146376 2024-06-23T07:53:59+00:00 Reading Roman Civil War in Iceland: Rómverja Saga and the Reimagining of Lucanian Ambiguity Cruz, Kathleen 2024-06-02 application/pdf https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/146376 eng eng Societas Danica Indagationie Antiqvitatis Et Medii Aevi https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/146376/189590 https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/146376 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Classica et Mediaevalia; Årg. 73 (2024); 333-376 Classica et Mediaevalia; Vol. 73 (2024): Classica et Mediaevalia; 333-376 Classica et Mediaevalia; Bd. 73 (2024); 333-376 2596-7932 0106-5815 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed article 2024 ftsbaarhusojs 2024-06-04T14:32:32Z Lucan’s Bellum Civile has long been read through the disjointed persona of its emotional narrator. In its unique adaptation of Lucan’s epic, the medieval Icelandic Rómverja saga (The Saga of the Romans) turns this distinctive equivocation on its head. This paper considers how Rómverja saga adapts two key aspects of Lucan’s poem – the characterization of the two central figures, Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus, and scenes of mass battle – along saga literary conventions. In each case, Rómverja saga removes key moments of ambiguity in the Bellum Civile while simultaneously introducing novel domains of interpretive uncertainty, thus preserving a central Lucanian feature while radically reshaping it. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Aarhus University: OJS at The State and University Library |
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Lucan’s Bellum Civile has long been read through the disjointed persona of its emotional narrator. In its unique adaptation of Lucan’s epic, the medieval Icelandic Rómverja saga (The Saga of the Romans) turns this distinctive equivocation on its head. This paper considers how Rómverja saga adapts two key aspects of Lucan’s poem – the characterization of the two central figures, Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus, and scenes of mass battle – along saga literary conventions. In each case, Rómverja saga removes key moments of ambiguity in the Bellum Civile while simultaneously introducing novel domains of interpretive uncertainty, thus preserving a central Lucanian feature while radically reshaping it. |
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Reading Roman Civil War in Iceland: Rómverja Saga and the Reimagining of Lucanian Ambiguity |
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Reading Roman Civil War in Iceland: Rómverja Saga and the Reimagining of Lucanian Ambiguity |
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Reading Roman Civil War in Iceland: Rómverja Saga and the Reimagining of Lucanian Ambiguity |
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Reading Roman Civil War in Iceland: Rómverja Saga and the Reimagining of Lucanian Ambiguity |
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Reading Roman Civil War in Iceland: Rómverja Saga and the Reimagining of Lucanian Ambiguity |
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reading roman civil war in iceland: rómverja saga and the reimagining of lucanian ambiguity |
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Societas Danica Indagationie Antiqvitatis Et Medii Aevi |
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Classica et Mediaevalia; Årg. 73 (2024); 333-376 Classica et Mediaevalia; Vol. 73 (2024): Classica et Mediaevalia; 333-376 Classica et Mediaevalia; Bd. 73 (2024); 333-376 2596-7932 0106-5815 |
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