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Lucan was a famous poet of the Imperial Latin period, known for his epic Pharsalia on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey. He was also a participant in a conspiracy against Nero, who ordered his suicide at age 25.
Lucan is a drama series about a boy who was raised by wolves and tries to rejoin his human family. The series stars Kevin Brophy as Lucan and features Don Gordon, John Randolph, and Leslie Nielsen.
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- Drama
- Kevin Brophy, Don Gordon, John Randolph
Lucan is a TV drama starring Kevin Brophy as a man raised by wolves who struggles to fit into human society. The series aired on ABC from 1977 to 1978 and was based on a made-for-TV movie of the same name.
Lucan was a Roman poet and republican patriot whose historical epic, the Bellum civile, better known as the Pharsalia because of its vivid account of that battle, is remarkable as the single major Latin epic poem that eschewed the intervention of the gods.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lucan is a 2013 British drama based on the book by John Pearson, who investigated the disappearance of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, in 1974. He was accused of killing his children's nanny, but his body was never found.
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- 2015-02-02
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Lucan was a Roman poet who wrote the only surviving epic poem about the civil war between Caesar and Pompey. He was a nephew of Seneca, a friend of Nero, and a participant in a plot to assassinate the emperor.
Learn about Lucan, one of the foremost writers of the Latin Silver Age, who wrote the epic Pharsalia, a subversive poem about the civil war that ended the Roman republic. Find out how he became a court favorite, a conspirator against Nero, and a suicide at a young age.
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