Binding: Paperback
Description: Lucan grandson of Seneca the Rhetorician and nephew of Seneca the Philosopher was a remarkable and precocious product of the stimulating literary climate promoted by Nero. His epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey unfinished at the time of his death stands beside the poems of Virgil and Ovid in the first rank of Latin epic. The work is a powerful condemnation of civil war and Lucan emphasizes the stark dark horror of the catastrophes which the Roman state inflicted upon itself. This new translation in free verse conveys the full force of Lucan's writing and his grimly realistic view of the subject. The Introduction sets the scene for the reader unfamiliar with Lucan and explores his relationship with earlier writers of Latin epic and his interest in the sensational.
Title: Civil War
Author(s): Lucan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199540686
Pages: 400 Pages, 2 Maps
Publication Date: 7/15/2008
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets