A Commentary on Lucan, De Bello Civili IV: Introduction, Edition, and Translation

Lucan's life and times : vitae and other evidence -- Lucan's antiphrastic epos -- Book IV and its place in the poem -- Language and style -- Diction -- Syntax and word order -- Rhetorical devices -- Meter -- Note on the Latin text -- Conspectus siglorum -- Text and translation -- Commentary -- The Battle of Ilerda -- Mutual suicide : Volteius and the Opitergians -- Curio in Africa.