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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.
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.
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.
Complete summary of Christopher Marlowe's Lucan's First Book (Pharsalia). eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Lucan's First Book (Pharsalia).
Pharsalia, also known as De Bello Civili, is an epic Latin poem by Lucan, chronicling the conflict between Julius Caesar and the Roman Senate under Pompey the Great, climaxing with Caesar’s victory at the 48 BC Battle of Pharsalus.
These economical lines and phrases epigrammatically summarize a character, a situation, or—in the older meaning of sententia—a general truth. Lucan’s mannerisms and willful faults can blind...
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.
