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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 Vergil'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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