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Timothy Joseph. 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.
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...
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.
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.
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).
the bond of a ruthless crime, but found the people angered that Roman laws and officialdom should usurp their own, feelings split, support wavering, and that Pompey’s death had brought him no gain. Yet undaunted, his face forever masking his fears, he visited the temples of the gods and the ancient
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