Stephanie Melvin “No Death Deserves its Own Lament”: Collective Lamentation and Transgressions of Genre and Gender in Bellum Civile VII Overcome with horror at the bloody climax of the battle of Pharsalus, Lucan's narrator threatens
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Overcome with horror at the bloody climax of the battle of Pharsalus, Lucan's narrator threatens to derail his own epic project by wishing tears would perish, and claiming he will stay silent. This assertion – immediately disregarded – illustrates a paradox in Lucan’s text: his work is epic, both in its martial content and its meter, but the nature of civil war disrupts the narrative by provoking cries of (elegiac) lament. Lucan, realizing that an epic on civil strife must end in selfdestruction, adopts instead the feminine discourse of lamentation, thereby threatening not only the generic, but also the gendered, expectations of his text.
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