Lucan The Civil War: Pharsalia Browse below; Download; Book I The Civil War begins Book II Pompey in retreat Book III Conflict in the Mediterranean Book IV Victory for Caesar in Spain …
Dive deep into Lucan's The Pharsalia with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
Lucan's style is vivid and highly rhetorical, and he describes the battles of the war in gory detail. He sides strongly against the Emperor Nero's forebear, Caesar, and idolises his republican …
Thus, Lucan elevates Stoic and Republican principles in sharp contrast to the imperialist ambitions of Caesar, who, if anything, becomes an even greater monster after the decisive …
PHARSALIA AS ROME'S "DAY OF DOOM" IN LUCAN 109 provide principal models (and anti-models) for Lucan's presentation of the greater, collective day of doom at Pharsalia. Section 2 …
Lucan is a supporting antagonist in Invincible, serving from Season 2 and onward. He is a low-ranking Viltrumite warrior of the Viltrum Empire, dedicated to aiding in the Viltrumite mission to …
Chapter 3, "Lo sfondo cosmico" (42-50), shows how Lucan locates the Civil War against the background of the Stoic doctrine of cosmic destruction, with the important difference that in …
Probably the five years known as the Golden Era of Nero had passed when they were written: yet the text itself does not aid such a suggestion; and the view generally taken, namely that Lucan …
