Lucan’s Pharsalia

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Latin epic poem Roman literature work historical epic

Lucan’s Pharsalia is a 1st-century AD Roman epic poem by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus that dramatically recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great.

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Pharsalia 3
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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin epic poem ⓘ
Roman literature work ⓘ
historical epic ⓘ
author Lucan ⓘ
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus ⓘ
centralEvent Pharsalus ⓘ
surface form: Battle of Pharsalus
countryOfOrigin Roman Empire ⓘ
dateWritten 1st century AD ⓘ
dedicatedTo Nero ⓘ
featuresCharacter Marcus Junius Brutus ⓘ
surface form: Brutus

Cato the Younger ⓘ
Cicero ⓘ
Cleopatra VII ⓘ
surface form: Cleopatra VII Philopator

Gnaeus Pompeius (son of Pompey) ⓘ
surface form: Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey’s son)

Pompey the Great ⓘ
surface form: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus

Julius Caesar ⓘ
Marcus Licinius Crassus ⓘ
Cato the Younger ⓘ
surface form: Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis

Pompey the Great ⓘ
Sextus Pompeius ⓘ
genre epic poetry ⓘ
historical poetry ⓘ
influenced Christopher Marlowe ⓘ
Dante Alighieri ⓘ
French neoclassical tragedy ⓘ
influencedBy Homeric epic tradition ⓘ
Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
surface form: Virgil’s Aeneid
isFragmentary true ⓘ
isUnfinished true ⓘ
literaryForm hexameter narrative poem ⓘ
literaryMovement Neronian literature ⓘ
literaryPeriod Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ
mainSubject Caesar’s civil war ⓘ
Roman civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great ⓘ
meter dactylic hexameter ⓘ
notableFeature absence of divine machinery typical of earlier epics ⓘ
graphic depictions of violence ⓘ
strong rhetorical style ⓘ
numberOfBooks 10 ⓘ
originalLanguage Latin ⓘ
politicalStance anti-Caesarian ⓘ
republican ⓘ
settingLocation Egypt ⓘ
Greece ⓘ
Italy ⓘ
North Africa ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ
settingPeriod 49–45 BC ⓘ
title Bellum Civile ⓘ
Commentarii de Bello Civili ⓘ
surface form: De Bello Civili

Lucan’s Pharsalia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Pharsalia

Referenced by (5)

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Pompey the Great → portrayedInWork → Lucan’s Pharsalia ⓘ
Cato the Younger → portrayedInWork → Lucan’s Pharsalia ⓘ
Silver Age of Latin literature → hasNotableWork → Lucan’s Pharsalia ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pharsalia
Lucan’s Pharsalia → title → Lucan’s Pharsalia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pharsalia
Lucan → notableWork → Lucan’s Pharsalia ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pharsalia