Lucan: The Civil War (Pharsalia) (The Loeb Classical Library, No. 220)
by Lucan, Nicholas Rowe
Category: Epic poetry, Latin

The only surviving work of the Roman poet Lucan and 1 of the supreme achievements of Augustan verse. Lucan was a Roman poet of Spanish origin, the nephew of Seneca. The only 1 of his works to have survived is a sweeping historical epic about the civil wars between Pompey and Caesar, written in 10 books, which both Shelley and Macauley admired.