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Author Lucan, 39-65, author

Title Civil war / Lucan ; translated with introduction and notes by S.H. Braund
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992
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Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics.
Summary "Lucan, grandson of Seneca the Rhetorician, and nephew of Seneca the Philosopher, was a remarkable and precocious product of the stimulating literary climate promoted by Nero. His epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, unfinished at the time of his death, stands beside the poems of Virgil and Ovid in the first rank of Latin epic. The work is a powerful condemnation of civil war, and Lucan emphasizes the stark, dark horror of the catastrophes which the Roman state inflicted upon itself. This new translation in free verse conveys the full force of Lucan's writing, and his grimly realistic view of the subject. The introduction sets the scene for the reader unfamiliar with Lucan, explores his relationship with earlier writers of Latin epic, and his interest in the sensational."--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-321)
Notes Translated from the Latin
Subject Epic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English.
Pharsalus, Battle of, Farsala, Greece, 48 B.C. -- Poetry.
SUBJECT Rome -- History -- Civil War, 49-45 B.C. -- Poetry. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116722
Genre/Form History.
Poetry.
Translations.
Poetry.
Form Electronic book
Author Braund, Susanna Morton, translator
ISBN 9780191819483
Other Titles Pharsalia. English