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commonly referred to as the Pharsalia (Latin: [pʰarˈsaːlia], neuter plural), is a Roman epic poem written by the poet Lucan, detailing the civil war between

"Madness Triumphant: A Reading of Lucan's Pharsalia." Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2012. Henderson, John G. W. "Lucan: The Word at War." Ramus 16 (1987)

and her impious ways. Her first major role was in the Roman poet Lucan's epic Pharsalia, which details Caesar's Civil War. In the work, Pompey the Great's

attributed to the Roman poet Lucan (d. AD 65). It occurs for the first time in his work, Bellum civile/Pharsalia. Lucan used the term to describe what

great that it shed its skin even in the winter. Lucan wrote in the 1st century AD, in his Pharsalia, book 9, verse 841-842, that "Sole of all serpents

compilations of scholia (explanatory notes) on the Latin poet Lucan's Pharsalia. Lucan's poem was very popular in late antiquity and the middle ages, which

Strabo, Frontinus, Eutropius, and Orosius. Lucan in his poem about the Civil War regularly uses the name Pharsālia, and this term is also used by the epitomiser

Plutarch, Caesar 49.1 Lucan, Pharsalia 10.56-57 (Livy is probably the source of Lucan). Plutarch, Caesar 49.1; Lucan, Pharsalia 10.57-58 Plutarch, Caesar

Pliny and Lucan wrote that druids did not meet in stone temples or other constructions, but in sacred groves of trees. In his Pharsalia Lucan described

Venus Genetrix, the divine ancestress of the Julians. In the Pharsalia by the Roman poet Lucan, the ghost of Julia appears to Pompey, blaming his re-marriage