Civil War
Lucan / Braund, Susan H. (Head of Department of Classics and Ancient History and University Lecturer, Head of Department of Classics and Ancient History and University Lecturer, Exeter University)
Lucan's 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. This newly annotated, free verse translation conveys the full force of Lucan's writing and his grimly realistic view of the subject. The work is a powerful condemnation of civil war, emphasizing the stark, dark horror of the catastrophies which the Roman state inflicted u...