Brill's Companion to Lucan

Paolo Asso, Ph.D. (2002) in Classics, Princeton University, is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has recently published an edition, with translation and commentary, of Lucan, Bellum Civile, Book 4 (Berlin, 2010). As a 2011-12 fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, he is writing a monograph on Africa in the Roman literary imagination.

Contributors: Elaine Fantham, Joseph D. Reed, Jonathan Tracy, Jackie Murray, Sergio Casali, Alison Keith, Ruth Caston, Eleni Manolaraki, Antony Augoustakis, J. Mira Seo, Ben Tipping, Marco Fucecchi, Neil Bernstein, Christine Walde, Shadi Bartsch, Robert Sklenář, Randall Ganiban, Sean Easton, Mark Thorne, Paolo Asso, Micah Y. Myers, Neil Coffee, Carole Newlands, Paolo Esposito, Edoardo D’Angelo, Simone Marchesi, Philip Hardie , Susanna Braund, Francesca D’Alessandro Behr, and John Henderson.

Scholars and students in ancient Greek and Latin literature, as well as medieval and early modern studies, intellectual history, reception of classical antiquity and the classical tradition.

"Der Band liefert [...] in gewaltiger inhaltlicher Fülle substantielle und durchaus auch kontroverse Forschungsbeiträge auf hohem Niveau und ist daher jedem Lucan-Forscher zu empfehlen." Nadja Kimmerle in Sehepunkte 12, 2012