Bellum Civile
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Bellum Civile, commonly known as Lucan’s Pharsalia, is a Latin epic poem that dramatically recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bellum Civile canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Latin epic poem
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poem about civil war ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lucan’s Pharsalia
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Pharsalia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| approximateDateOfComposition | mid-1st century CE ⓘ |
| author | Lucan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConflict | power struggle between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Brutus
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Cato the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ Cicero NERFINISHED ⓘ Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey’s son) NERFINISHED ⓘ Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus NERFINISHED ⓘ Julius Caesar NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcus Licinius Crassus NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Sextus Pompeius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstBookCount | 10 surviving books GENERATED ⓘ |
| genre | epic poetry ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christopher Marlowe
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Dante Alighieri NERFINISHED ⓘ French neoclassical tragedy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Homeric epic
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Virgil’s Aeneid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isUnfinished | true ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Neronian literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Silver Age of Latin literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Roman epic tradition after Virgil ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Roman civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great
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collapse of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| metre | dactylic hexameter ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
absence of traditional epic gods as active characters
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frequent digressions and speeches ⓘ highly rhetorical style ⓘ stoic philosophical elements ⓘ strongly anti-Caesarian tone ⓘ |
| numberOfBooksExtant | 10 ⓘ |
| numberOfBooksPlanned | 12 ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Bellum Civile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalOrientation | Stoicism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Africa
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Battle of Pharsalus NERFINISHED ⓘ Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ Thessaly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
civil war as self-destruction of Rome
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fate and human agency ⓘ liberty versus tyranny ⓘ moral decline of Rome ⓘ |
| timeOfComposition | reign of Nero ⓘ |
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