Who is Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November 39 AD – 30 April 65 AD), better known in English as Lucan (), was a Roman poet, born in Corduba (modern-day Córdoba), in Hispania Baetica. He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period, known in particular for his epic Pharsalia. His youth and speed of composition set him apart from other poets.

Life

Three brief ancient accounts allow for the reconstruction of a modest biography – the earliest attributed to Suetonius, another to an otherwise unknown Vacca, and the third anonymous and undated – along with references in Martial, Cassius Dio, Tacitus's Annals, and one of Statius's Silvae. Lucan was the son of Marcus Annaeus Mela and grandson of Seneca the Elder; he grew up under the tutelage of...
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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Poems

  • Pharsalia - Book V: The Oracle. The Mutiny. The Storm
    Thus had the smiles of Fortune and her frowns
    Brought either chief to Macedonian shores
    Still equal to his foe. From cooler skies
    Sank Atlas' daughters down, and Haemus' slopes ...
  • Pharsalia - Book Ii: The Flight Of Pompeius
    This was made plain the anger of the gods;
    The universe gave signs Nature reversed
    In monstrous tumult fraught with prodigies
    Her laws, and prescient spake the coming guilt....
  • Pharsalia - Book Vii: The Battle
    Ne'er to the summons of the Eternal laws
    More slowly Titan rose, nor drave his steeds,
    Forced by the sky revolving, up the heaven,
    With gloomier presage; wishing to endure...
  • Pharsalia - Book Iii: Massilia
    With canvas yielding to the western wind
    The navy sailed the deep, and every eye
    Gazed on Ionian billows. But the chief
    Turned not his vision from his native shore...
  • Pharsalia - Book 1
    The Crossing of the Rubicon

    Wars worse than civil on Emathian plains,
    And crime let loose we sing; how Rome's high race ...
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Orgetorix: check out this book: "delphi complete works of lucan (illustrated) (delphi ancient classics book 29)" by marcus annaeus lucanus lucan, j.d. duff, edward ridley
Cerebralwisdom: datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (the sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - marcus annaeus lucanus
Cerebralwisdom: datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (the sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - marcus annaeus lucanus
Cerebralwisdom: datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (the sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - marcus annaeus lucanus
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