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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November AD 39 – 30 April AD 65), better known in English as Lucan (/ ˈluːkən /), was a Roman poet, born in Corduba, Hispania Baetica (present-day Córdoba, Spain). He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period, known in particular for his epic Pharsalia.
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Lucan was a nephew of Seneca the Younger and a leader of a conspiracy against Nero. His only surviving work, the Pharsalia, is a historical epic about the civil war between Caesar and Pompey.
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- Book I:1-32 The Nature of The War
- Book I:33-66 Homage to Nero
- Book I:67-97 The Motives of The Leaders
- Book I:98-157 Caesar and Pompey
- Book I:158-182 The Hidden Causes of The War
- Book I:183-227 Caesar’s Crossing of The Rubicon
- Book I:228-265 Entry Into Ariminum
- Book I:266-351 The Exiled Tribunes: Caesar’s Speech
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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; of strife within families; how, with the first Triumvirate broken, the forces of the quivering globe contended in mutual sinfulness; standard ranged against ...
Yet we’ll complain no more, you gods, if fate could find no other way to Nero’s advent, if even the eternal kingdom cost you dear, and Jupiter the Thunderer could not rule without warring with fierce 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 ...
My mind is moved to set down the cause of these great events. Vast the task before me, to show what impelled a frenzied people to arms, and drove peace from the earth. It was a chain of fatal happenings, the swift and painful collapse of excessive weight, a Rome unable to bear her own greatness. So when the fabric of the world dissolves, in that fi...
For a short while a discordant harmony was maintained, there was peace despite the leaders’ wills, since Crassus stood between them, a check to imminent war. So the slender Isthmus divides the waves, and separates two seas, forbidding their waters to merge; and yet if the land were withdrawn, the Ionian would break on the Aegean. Thus when Crassus,...
Such were the leaders’ motives; but there were those hidden causes of the war, amongst the people, that will ever destroy powerful nations. For, the world conquered, and fortune showering excessive wealth on Rome, virtue yielded to riches, and those enemy spoils drew men to luxury. They set no bounds to wealth or buildings; greed disdained its form...
Now, Caesar, swiftly surmounting the frozen Alps, had set his mind on vast rebellion and future conflict. On reaching the banks of the Rubicon’s narrow flow that general saw a vision of his motherland in distress, her sorrowful face showing clear in nocturnal darkness, with the white hair streaming from her turreted head, as with torn tresses and n...
So he spoke, urging his men on through the shadows of night swifter than the missile whirled from a Balearic sling, or the arrow the Parthian looses behind him. As the stars fled the light and the morning star shone alone, he entered nearby Ariminum, bringing terror. So the day dawned that witnessed the first turmoil of the war; though, by the will...
For the Senators, exceeding their powers, had threatened the fractious tribunes and expelled them from the anxious city, recalling the like fate of the Gracchi; and so the exiles headed for Caesar’s camp, now advanced close to Rome. With them was daring Curio of the venal tongue, once the voice of the people and a bold champion of freedom, bringing...
Read the first book of Lucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in Latin and English. Learn about the causes, consequences and prophecies of the conflict, and the homage to Nero.
Pharsalia is an unfinished epic poem by the Roman poet Lucan, who died in 65 CE. It narrates the story of the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, with vivid descriptions of battles, portents, and characters.
Dec 14, 2009 · Learn about Lucan, a prolific and influential Latin poet who wrote the only surviving historical epic on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey. Explore his life, works, and legacy in this comprehensive article by Susanna Braund.
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