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Dalla parte dei Decii. Lucano e la storia esemplare di Roma

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Lucan Pharsalia Heroism Decii Pompeius Cato bellum civileSettore L-FIL-LET/04 - Lingua E Letteratura Latina

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The paper deals with the references to the exemplary history of the Decii in Lucan’s Pharsalia. Particular attention is focused on the model of virtue and self-sacrifice towards the State they embody. However, while they ennoble the pars Pompeiana, they nevertheless show the fragility of Pompey’s fate, increasing the sense of an imminent catastrophe: the virtuous model of the Decii is in fact not replicable. The subversion produced by civil war makes it now out of date: tragedy, not history

http://hdl.handle.net/10447/515022