Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
Author: last_name: Lucan
Language: English
Year: 1928

Lucan's only surviving work, <i>De Bello Civili</i>, more generally known as the <i>Pharsalia</i>, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. The title given by posterity to the poem refers to the Battle of Pharsalus, which took place in 48 BC near the city of Pharsalus, in Thessaly. The work is important as an example of Roman Historic Epic, since divine intervention plays little part in the narrative and very few supernatural occurrences happen in the story