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In passages including Nigidius Figulus’ speech in book 1, the narrator’s outcry at the beginning of book 2, and some descriptions of battle, dilemma resonates with Senecan tragedy to create generic dissonances within the epic and polarize readers’ responses to Roman history.
“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.
Print. 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.
Contents. Book I:1-32 The nature of the war. Book I:33-66 Homage to Nero. Book I:67-97 The motives of the leaders. Book I:98-157 Caesar and Pompey. Book I:158-182 The hidden causes of the war. Book I:183-227 Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon. Book I:228-265 Entry into Ariminum (Rimini)
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 ...
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
23 Οκτ 2008 · Lucan : the civil war books I-X (Pharsalia) by. Lucan, 39-65; Duff, J. D. (James Duff), 1860-1940. Publication date. 1928. Topics. Pharsalus, Battle of, Farsala, Greece, 48 B.C.
