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“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 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.
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;
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 ...
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.
Thus his spirit flew over Pharsalia’s field, over cruel. Caesar’s standards, over the ships weaving about the sea, to find a dwelling place in the mind of indomitable Cato, then settle, an avenger of crime, in Brutus’ sacred breast. Cato had hated Pompey as he did Caesar while the war’s.
