Overview :"The Pharsalia of Lucan" is a compelling historical epic that vividly recounts the tumultuous events of the Roman Civil War. Penned by Lucan... Read More
Overview :... eminently readable, supple, and coherent... essential... " --Choice... translated into English verse with great force and precision... "... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This... Read More
Overview :Abandoned as an infant in the wild, a young boy is raised by wolves. Discovered in the forests of northern Minnesota at the age of 10, the b... Read More
Overview :In his De Bello Civili Lucan tells the story of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, dealing in Book VIII with the defeat and death of t... Read More
Overview :Was this one of the greatest miscarriages of justice ever to occur on English history?You decide Based upon the medical and other evidencepr... Read More
Overview :Lauded after his death as 'champion of the English Commonwealth', but also derided as a 'most servile wit, and mercenary pen', the poet, dra... Read More
Overview :This edition offers the first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Po... Read More
Overview :This edition of the seventh book of Lucan's De Bello Civili, also known as Pharsalia, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1960 an... Read More
Overview :Born in 39 C.E., the Roman poet Lucan lived during the turbulent reign of the emperor Nero. Prior to his death in 65 C.E., Lucan wrote proli... Read More
Overview :Book VII of Lucan's De Bello Ciuili recounts the decisive victory of Julius Caesar over Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus on 9 August 48 BCE... Read More
Overview :Is Lucan's brilliant and grotesque epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that despairingly p... Read More
Overview :I consider this book to be a scripturally sound, instructional guide on becoming an effective Christian witness in this twenty-first century... Read More
Overview :Feeling History is a study of apostrophe (i.e., the rhetorical device in which the narrator talks directly to his characters) in Lucan's Bel... Read More