“El motivo del hambre o las implicancias genéricas de una escena programática (Lucano, B.C. 4.408-414)”

Abstract

The superposition of Romanus and hostis categories produced by Roman civil war at the end of the 1st century BC became a cultural topic of Latin literature from Cicero’s time. Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile exacerbates the topic and presents the fratricidal nefas in several episodes which underline the unnatural aspects of that martial event of the past. From a stylistic and poetic approach I show the programmatic implications of a short scene (408-414). which announces collective suicide in book 4.