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“Pharsalia” (also kown as “De Bello Civili” or “On the Civil War”) is an epic poem in ten books by the Roman poet Lucan, left unfinished on the poets’ death in 65 CE.
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“Metamorophoses” (“Transformations”) is a narrative poem in...
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The epic poem “Pharsalia” on the war between Julius Caesar...
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The original poem is an epic about the first-century-B.C. Roman civil war, and the poem contains sufficient references to Marlowe's own time to provide some apt comparisons to...
Complete summary of Lucan's The Pharsalia. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Pharsalia.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November AD 39 – 30 April AD 65), better known in English as Lucan (/ ˈ l uː k ən /), was a Roman poet, born in Corduba, Hispania Baetica (present-day Córdoba, Spain). He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period, known in particular for his epic Pharsalia .
When the plot was discovered, Nero compelled Lucan to commit suicide. Lucan’s only surviving work is the Bellum Civile (n.d.; The Civil Wars, 1914). This epic poem narrates the civil wars...
Lucan was a Roman poet and republican patriot whose historical epic, the Bellum civile, better known as the Pharsalia because of its vivid account of that battle, is remarkable as the single major Latin epic poem that eschewed the intervention of the gods.
The furious partiality of Lucan takes away much of the pleasure which his talents would otherwise afford. A poet who is, as has often been said, less a poet than a historian, should to a certain degree conform to the laws of history.
