The Civil War: Pharsalia or Bellum Civile

by Lucan (Author)

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1998
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The only surviving work of the Roman poet Lucan and 1 of the supreme achievements of Augustan verse. Lucan was a Roman poet of Spanish origin, the nephew of Seneca. The only 1 of his works to have survived is a sweeping historical epic about the civil wars between Pompey and Caesar, written in 10 books, which both Shelley and Macauley admired.

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The only surviving work of the Roman poet Lucan and 1 of the supreme achievements of Augustan verse. Lucan was a Roman poet of Spanish origin, the nephew of Seneca. The only 1 of his works to have survived is a sweeping historical epic about the civil wars between Pompey and Caesar, written in 10 books, which both Shelley and Macauley admired.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Nov 1998
ISBN 10: 046087571X
ISBN 13: 9780460875714
Book Overview: *Fully modernised edition of Rowe's classic 1718 translation *Editors present latest scholarship in introduction, notes, bibliography, maps and chronology of Rowe's life and times.

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