The Civil War
- ISBN-10
- 046087571X
- ISBN-13
- 9780460875714
- Series
- The Civil War
- Category
- Epic poetry, Latin
- Pages
- 444
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Authors
- Lucan, Nicholas Rowe
Description
The only surviving work of the Roman poet Lucan and 1 of the supreme achievements of Augustan verse. Lucan was a Roman poet of Spanish origin, the nephew of Seneca. The only 1 of his works to have survived is a sweeping historical epic about the civil wars between Pompey and Caesar, written in 10 books, which both Shelley and Macauley admired.
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