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Der ‚dekadente‘ Feldherr

Caesar in Ägypten (Luc. 10)

In: Mnemosyne
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Lisa Sannicandro Lutzstraße 25, D-80687 München lisa.sannicandro@email.it

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Abstract

The portrayal of Caesar’s dalliance with Cleopatra in Lucan’s Bellum civile (book 10) exploits the motif of the general who, seduced by a foreign woman, forgets his responsabilities to his country. This motif occurs from Homer through the Greek and Latin epic tradition to Latin historiography and Greek biography. The lexicon for the concept of forgetting is a recurring Leitmotiv.1

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