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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November AD 39 – 30 April AD 65), better known in English as Lucan (/ ˈluːkən /), 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.
14 Δεκ 2009 · The poem, known as Bellum ciuile (often spelled civile) or the Pharsalia, is a historical epic in the tradition of the early Republican epicists Naevius and Ennius. Lucan’s brief life, culminating in forced suicide, his relationship with the emperor Nero, the incompleteness of his poem (it breaks off at 10.546), and the nature of his ...
“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.
Lucan's great poem, Pharsalia, recounts events surrounding the decisive battle fought near Pharsalus in 48 B.C. during the civil war between the forces of Pompey and Julius Caesar.
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In modern times also great writers have admired Lucan’s poem. Shelley actually preferred Lucan to Virgil and immortalised his name in the Adonais. Macaulay read the poem through repeatedly, and recorded his opinion as follows at the end of the volume on August 30, 1835.
18 Σεπ 2013 · In this provocative book Henry Day examines Lucan’s Bellum Civile using the concept of the sublime as a critical lens. Day’s definition of the sublime is based upon an amalgamation of features taken from writers of antiquity (Longinus, Lucretius), the Enlightenment (Burke, Kant), and post-modernity (Lyotard, Ankersmit).
