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The Pharsalia by Lucan – 2: Summary | Books Boots In this book-by-book summary of Lucan's Pharsalia, I started with the short text summaries provided by Wikipedia, pasted in the section summaries provided by A S Kline's online translation, and then added my own observations Book 1 The civil
Virtue Conquered by Fortune: Cato in Lucans lt;em gt;Pharsalia lt; em gt; This thesis looks at how the Roman poet Lucan uses the character of Cato to elucidate his beliefs about Fortune and Stoicism The traditional Stoic view of Fortune views it as a force for good that allows people to improve through hardship
Lucan | Roman Poet, Epic Poem Pharsalia | Britannica 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
Lucan’s Civil War - Waggish Lucan chronicles the bloody war with sarcasm, disbelief, and a subversive attitude toward all tradition The Greek Roman gods of those other epics are nearly absent, replaced by the fickle and frequently sadistic Fortune, as well as a multicultural array of superstitions and divinatory practices
Lucan, The Civil War (Pharsalia) | Loeb Classical Library Lucan (M Annaeus Lucanus, 39–65 CE), son of wealthy M Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome In 60 CE at a festival in Emperor Nero's honour Lucan praised him in a panegyric and was promoted to one or two minor offices
Lucan (39-65) - Pharsalia - Royal Collection Trust The poet Lucan was born in Spain, and brought up under the direction of his uncle, the Stoic philosopher Seneca He was also implicated, with far more justification than his uncle, in the Piso conspiracy of AD 65 to assassinate the emperor Nero, and was forced to commit suicide at the age of just 25
Lucan: Pharsaliae Grandson of the elder Seneca, Lucan was a poet and rhetorician as well as the author of an historical epic on the civil war, known as the Pharsalia (named for one of the battles between Caesar and Pompey)
Ptolemaeus Tyrannus: The Typification of Nero in the Pharsalia Our poet, therefore, did not object to monarchy, but to severe and despotic tyranny, as practiced in the Hellenized East and in Rome during Nero's later years In the Pharsalia, tyranny was exemplified by Caesar and Alexander