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Cato Uticensis als literarische Figur im Supplementum Lucani (1640) des Thomas May: Rezeption antiker Historiographie und Epik unter Charles I.

Schreiner, Sonja M. (2003) Cato Uticensis als literarische Figur im Supplementum Lucani (1640) des Thomas May: Rezeption antiker Historiographie und Epik unter Charles I. Acta Antiqua, 43 (3-4). pp. 449-478. ISSN 0044-5975

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Abstract

In 1640 Thomas May publishes his Supplementum Lucani in hexameters. His Continuation of Lucan's Historicall Poem till the Death of Iulius Caesar in blank verse has already appeared in 1630 and - in a second version - in 1633. As republican the author is fond of M. Porcius Cato Uticensis, depicting Caesar's opponent as a stoic and wise man and a timeless symbol of liberty. May's Supplementum was read as integral part of Lucan's Bellum Civile up to the 18th century, when Joseph Addison and Johann Christoph Gottsched wrote their Cato-plays.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PA Classical philology / klasszika-filológia
Depositing User: xKatalin xBarta
Date Deposited: 30 Jan 2017 08:55
Last Modified: 31 Dec 2023 00:15
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/46661

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