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ricardienneBecause I am not a moron, I stand firmly on the side of mockery when it comes to theories like "Thucydides was so bitter and lonely sitting out the Peloponnesian War in Thrace that he became pathologically unable to write intelligible Greek" or "Tacitus was so traumatized by Domitian's principate that he could only express himself in equally tortured Latin."
But Lucan? I think there was something wrong with that guy. His syntax is as tortured and mangled as the bodies are -- and the bodies keep getting more and more grotesquely over the top tortured. Poking out Marius' eyeballs; picking over dead bodies trying to match up a severed head with the right neck; bodies damming up the Tiber; rivers of blood breaking through the dam. It's so horrible that I can't stop reading (book 2)!
But Lucan? I think there was something wrong with that guy. His syntax is as tortured and mangled as the bodies are -- and the bodies keep getting more and more grotesquely over the top tortured. Poking out Marius' eyeballs; picking over dead bodies trying to match up a severed head with the right neck; bodies damming up the Tiber; rivers of blood breaking through the dam. It's so horrible that I can't stop reading (book 2)!
