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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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The epic poem “Pharsalia” on the war between Julius Caesar...
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Synopsis. PDF Cite. E Smith. | Certified Educator. Christopher Marlowe translated several classical works from Latin into English, including the first book of the incomplete ten-book Pharsalia,...
His crimes emboldened him to order that Caesar’s head be severed as his son-in-law Pompey’s was, and he told a loyal henchmen to carry the message to Achillas, his accomplice in Pompey’s murder; Achillas, whom the unwarlike boy, his Pharaoh, had appointed to command all his forces and to
Lucan adopts the topos of the “day of doom” from epic predecessors such as Homer and Virgil and employs it on a grand scale, across his poem, for the day of Pharsalia. Lucan makes Pharsalia an all-consuming and collective doomsday, with cosmic forebodings and repercussions.
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.
Lucan joined the Pisonian conspiracy, which plotted to overthrow Nero. When the plot was discovered, Nero compelled Lucan to commit suicide. Lucan’s only surviving work is the Bellum Civile...
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.
