The Term "Numen" in Lucan’s "The Civil War"
The Term "Numen" in Lucan’s "The Civil War"

Summary/Abstract: The present paper intends to investigate, as its title suggests, the uses of the term numen in Lucan’s epic: “The Civil War”. The morpho-syntactic analysis of the verses where numen is employed reveals three senses of this notion: “power”, “divinity”, “statue”. Moreover, the examination of these passages uncovers not only the meanings of numen, but also the Stoic conception which underlies the poem.

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