id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt vq27zk54c27 elisabetta drudi Lucan's Bellum Civile: The Struggle of Poetic Writing under the Imperial Autocracy 2015 .txt text/plain 131 3 13 Their noticeable number and expressive content are marks of Lucan's rhetorical and poetical novelty, and therefore represent compelling keys to understanding the poet's conception of imperial autocracy, and his ability to engrain it in a literary discourse. In this thesis I propose a reading of how Lucan's Bellum Civile responds to its contemporary historical and political environment, the reality of the Roman imperial regime, and offers a reflection on the meaning of writing literature under imperial rule. cache/vq27zk54c27.txt txt/vq27zk54c27.txt