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lucan in many ways is a perversion of vergil. the last conference paper i did was about how pompey at the beginning of book iii of the pharsalia isa perverted figure of aeneas and how his wife julia is an inverted creusa figure. i focused primarily on julia’s appearance to him and how she is likened to a fury. this happens on the eve of pompey leaving rome (for the last time). i examined this perverted scene as a sense of the contemporary audience (who would have been familiar with the story beats of the aeneid) and i think it would contribute to the sense of doom you’re contemplating

Here’s my select bib from that paper:

Lam, K. 2019. Visions at War in Lucan’s Bellum Civile. The University of Chicago, PhD dissertation.

Mills, F. 2005. “Pompey’s Vision of Julia in Lucan’s Bellum Civile.” Iris 18: 53-64.

Morrison-Moncure, I. 2018. Affecting Civil War: The Poetics of Fear in Lucan’s Bellum Civile. The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. PhD dissertation.

Sanderson, E. 2021. “A Wor(l)d beside Itself: Exploring and Experiencing the Uncanny in Lucan’s Bellum Civile”. Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 10 (1). 90-116.

also look at Henry Day’s “Lucan and the Sublime” which talks about Lucan’s intent to deliberately shock his audience

this whole thing seems to mostly focus on the doom aspect of your topic. also, since i assume you’re a young scholar (not a bad thing!) i want to give a few tips that helped me (as a neurodivergent classicist who struggles with research)

1. keep EVERYTHING. i have a document called barf.doc which contains every snippet and paragraph i deleted.

2. ialso have a document of all my notes and bibliopgrpahy so if i need to refer back to the paper for future research, my notes are navigable and i can build off them (my notes for this particular paper were not well kept and i didn’t have a document dedicated to notes on my notes/bibliography so i can’t give u a more thorough answer!)

3. if u find a paper that talks about what u need, read that papers bibliography. its a good way to find more sources relevant to your research

good luck!!!

-tq

THANK. YOU. !!!!!!

Tips from a more experienced classicist are the best i could wish for!!!

I recently committed the #sin of asking for HELP with my bachelor's degree thesis on Reddit r/latin and someone said that I shouldn't "crowdsource" my own thesis man FUCK YOU I hope you get explosive diarrhea I just asked for a suggestion what the hell GOD FORBID a girl has a bunch of exams to study for and not much time to read the whole opus of LUCAN and HORACE !!!!

SO

I am NOW begging you all beautiful and kind people of tumblr to help me 🙏🏻🙏🏻

The topic of my thesis is: the end of the world, the wise man's reaction to the end of the world and the fragility of human existence, and the feeling of "impending doom" within Latin literature (pretty COOL, am I right ???? 💯💯)

ANYWAYS, I was gonna talk about how this topic is treated according to both Epicureanism and Stoicism. Me and my supervisor chose Lucretius, Horace, Seneca and Lucan as the authors I'll work on.

NOW, I've already found the Lucretius and Seneca excerpts I'll talk abouth in my thesis, but I still need to figure out which Horace and Lucan excerpts should I choose and analyze and THIS IS WHERE I NEED YOUR HELP !!!!!!!!!!!! 🗣🗣🗣

These two pieces of shit (who I love so dearly tho 💜) have written A LOT of stuff so I just CANNOT read it all because I have too much university business to take care of (eg. Studying for exams... and learning german from zero as quickly as possible ??) 💔💔

This is why I am HUMBLY BEGGING FOR HELP and if you have ANY SUGGESTION, if ANY PART of these two's works that fits with the topic comes to your mind, any academic paper you know that could be useful PLEEEEEEASE just TELL ME ✅️✅️✅️