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Crime and Reward. Markus Kersten. 2021, in: Paul Roche (ed.), Reading Lucan's Civil War. A Critical Guide, Oklahoma. Lucan’s third book covers events from March to September 49 B.C.E.; it thus comprises the longest span of narrative time in the Civil War.
giants, even such wickedness and crime is not too high a price to pay. Let Pharsalia’s dire plains be heaped with dead; let Hannibal’s shade revel in the carnage; let final battle be joined at fatal Munda.
LCL 220: Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, 39–65 CE), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In 60 CE at a festival in Emperor Nero's honour Lucan praised him in a panegyric and was promoted to one or two minor offices.
crime in civil war. Seeing his comrades ground their weapons and seek safety in flight, he cried: ‘Where is fear driving you, that wretched fear that is a stranger to Caesar’s armies? Do you turn your backs on death? Soldiers, are you not ashamed that you are missing from the heaps of bodies, are unsought among
1 Μαΐ 1992 · Braund supplies the reader with a useful thirty-six-page introduction (much longer than Duff’s or Widdows’), which discusses Lucan’s life, the contents of the poem and some general characteristics of Lucanian style.
1 The great Emathian conqueror' (Milton 's sonnet). Emathia was apart of Macedonia, but the word is used loosely for Thessaly or Macedonia.. 2 Crassus had been defeated and slain by the Parthians in B.C. 53, fouryears before this period.. 3 Mr. Froude in his essay entitled 'Divus Caesar' hints that these famous lines may have been written in mockery. Probably the five years known as the Golden ...
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.
