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Bust of Lucan, Córdoba (photograph by Cruccone, CC BY 3.0)
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Author

Lucan

39–65 · Poet

Seneca’s nephew and Nero’s rival in verse, he wrote an epic of the civil war with no gods in it. Caught up in a plot against Nero, he was forced to die at twenty-five.

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The Pharsalia, in Latin beside English.

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