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Latin Poetry - Lucan

Lucan. The poetry of the Silver Age Roman poet Lucan.
Aspects of Lucan's Poetic Style
Lucan was a SIlver Age poet whose Bellum Civile was a Roman epic in which Lucan used Vergile's Aeneid "as a negative compositional model for the Bellum Civile."
Introduction to Lucan Civil Wars
A biographical introduction to Lucan and his Civil Wars.
Jamie Masters, Poetry and civil war in Lucan's Bellum Civile
A BMCR review by Martha Davis of a revised dissertation on Lucan.
M. Annaei Lvcani Pharsalia
The text of Pharsalia by Lucan - in Latin.
Pharsalia
English translation of Pharsalia or the Civil War, by Lucan.

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