- Campaigns, Criticism and interpretation, Early works to 1800, Facsimiles
"In this edition Professor Fantham offers the first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem on the war between Caesar and Pompey: De bello civili. Book II presents all three leading figures - Cato, Caesar and Pompey - in speech and action.
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- unpretentiousprestige
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- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Lucan
- First published
- November 3, 2006
- Pages
- 342
- Publisher
- G.Bell, Penguin, IndyPublish
- Editions
- 182
- Language
- cze, und, Italian, French
- ISBN
- 9788884504203
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“Of wars across Emathian plains, worse than civil wars, and of legality conferred on crime we sing, and of a mighty people attacking its own guts with victorious sword-hand, of kin facing kin, and, once the pact of tyranny was broken, of conflict waged with all the forces of the shaken world for universal guilt, and of standards ranged in enmity against standards, of eagles matched and javelins threatening javelins.”
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