Questions tagged [lucan]
Questions related to the Roman poet Marcus Annaeus Lucanus or Lucan (39 AD – 65 AD) and his work. He is best known for Pharsalia or De Bello Civili.
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Did Lucan make an elementary blunder about the zodiac in “Pharsalia” book 3?
In book 3 of Lucan’s Pharsalia, enthusiasm for the civil war between Caesar and Pompey inflamed the whole world, including:
Ethiopians from that southern land
Which lies without the circuit of the ...
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Meaning of "The sin of thousands always goes unpunished"?
What did Lucanus mean by "The sin of thousands always goes unpunished" in Book V of Pharsalia?
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