Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, 39-65 CE), son of wealthy M. Annaeus
Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain
and was brought as a baby to Rome. In 60 CE at a festival in
Emperor Nero's honour Lucan praised him in a panegyric and was
promoted to one or two minor offices. But having defeated Nero in a
poetry contest he was interdicted from further recitals or
publication, so that three books of his epic "The Civil War" were
probably not issued in 61 when they were finished. By 65 he was
composing the tenth book but then became involved in the
unsuccessful plot of Piso against Nero and, aged only twenty-six,
by order took his own life.
Quintilian called Lucan a poet "full of fire and energy and a
master of brilliant phrases." His epic stood next after Virgil's in
the estimation of antiquity. Julius Caesar looms as a sinister hero
in his stormy chronicle in verse of the war between Caesar and the
Republic's forces under Pompey, and later under Cato in Africa--a
chronicle of dramatic events carrying us from Caesar's fateful
crossing of the Rubicon, through the Battle of Pharsalus and death
of Pompey, to Caesar victorious in Egypt. The poem is also called
"Pharsalia."
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