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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.
This study of the Roman poet Lucan (A.D. 39-65) treats themerits and meaning of Pharsalia, Lucan's epic and his onlysurviving work.
Book I:1-32 The nature of the war. I sing of a worse than civil war, of war fought between kinsmen. over Pharsalia’s plains, of wickedness deemed justice; of how. a powerful people turned their own right hands against themselves;
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.
“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.
O mighty the sacred labour of the poet! He rescues all from fate, and grants immortality to mortal beings. Caesar, let not your envy touch the sacred dead; for if our Latin Muses are permitted to promise anything, those to come will read my verse, and read of you, and our Pharsalia shall live on, as long as Homer’s
Lucan adopts the topos of the "day of doom" from epic predecessors such as Homer and Vergil 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. The appreciation of this.
