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	LUCAN - Online Information article about LUCAN
		Lucan is said to have defeated Nero in a public poetical contest; Nero forbade him to recite in public, and the poet's indignation made him an See also:
		republic as a poet with the same See also:
		Afranius and Petreius, and the defeat of See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LOB_LUP/LUCAN.html (1566 words)

	A reconsideration of Tacitus and Lucan
		This intertextual discussion of Lucan and Tacitus contributes to the discussion begun in antiquity regarding the interaction between history and epic [Historia etenim proxima poetis et quodammodo carmen solutum, Quint.
		Third, Tacitus' asides on his task of recording and interpreting history correctly, evoke Lucan's authorial anxieties about his double role as a poet and a historian of civil war.
		That Tacitus would use Lucan to fuel his historical imagination suggests the conceptual, historical, and moral stability of the civil war discourse in Roman literature, a continuity that transcends modern genre definitions and expectations about the ìscientificî integrity of history writing.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/MANOLARAKI.html (1566 words)

	Lucan -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Latin in full Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Roman poet and republican patriot whose historical epic, the Bellum civile, better known as the Pharsalia because of its vivid account of that battle, is remarkable as the single major Latin epic poem that eschewed the intervention of the gods.
		Lucan was the nephew of the philosopher-statesman Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the…
		"Lucan." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
	britannica.com /eb/article-9049226?tocId=9049226&... (1566 words)

	r-a3dav.html
		The concept is important because the master epic poets exploit their predecessors and the reader's awareness of them; they do not merely imitate.
		Moreover, not all of Toohey's claims about the Flavian poets are accurate.
		In the end Ahl sees Lucan's primary importance as being the ancient writer who more than any other `codified the political rhetoric of liberty which bore important political fruit in the era of the French and American revolutions' (p.
	www.und.ac.za /und/classics/r-a3dav.html (1566 words)

	bmcr-v3n02-gaisser-gods.txt
		Second, that depicting or reading the gods in epic is a problem of fiction, of the poet's authority both to claim that his literary fictions are true and to command belief from his audience.
		Gaisser, 'Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition', Bryn Mawr Classical Review v3n02 URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/bmcr/bmcr-v3n02-gaisser-gods 3.2.8, D. Feeney, The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
		This groundwork established, Feeney goes on to develop his argument in six chapters: on Apollonius, Naevius and Ennius, Vergil, Ovid, Lucan and Silius Italicus, Valerius Flaccus and Statius.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-v3n02-gaisser-gods.txt (1566 words)

	Geometry.Net - Authors: Lucan
		Originally written in Latin, approximately A.D. 61-65, by the Roman poet Lucan, and probably left unfinished upon his death in A.D. Although the work has been generally known through most of history as the "Pharsalia", modern scholarship tends to agree that this was not Lucan's choice for a title.
		Lucan is quickly becoming one of the largest and most densely populated suburbs in the greater Dublin area!
		The text of this edition is based on that published as "The Pharsalia of Lucan", as translated by Sir Edward Ridley (Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1896).
	www4.geometry.net /detail/authors/lucan.html (1790 words)

	Lucius Annaeus Seneca : Seneca the Younger
		Seneca was uncle to the poet Lucan, by his younger brother, Annaeus Mela.
		Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger) (~3 BC - 65 AD) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin Literature[?].
		Seneca was born in Cordoba, Spain, the second son of Helvia and Marcus (Lucius) Annaeus Seneca, a wealthy rhetorician known as Seneca the Elder.
	www.city-search.org /se/seneca-the-younger.html (878 words)

	Lucius Afranius -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The father, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder), had been famous in Rome as a teacher of rhetoric; the mother, Helvia, was of excellent character and education; the older brother was Gallio, met by St. Paul in Achaea in AD 52; the younger brother was the father of the poet Lucan.
		For almost a decade Lucius Annaeus Seneca was one of the most powerful men in the Roman Empire.
		Five Pompeian legions, together with many Spanish auxiliaries, commanded by Lucius Afranius and Marcus Petreius, were...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9003934 (548 words)

	UCR Library Website [Print Version]
		Annaeus Seneca, Lucius (Seneca the Elder, grandfather of Lucan) - Historian
		Lives of the Caesars, Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets translated by Alexander Thomson, M.D. Lives of the Caesars and De Viris Illustris.
		Accius, Lucius - Roman tragic poet (writer and dramatist)
	library.ucr.edu /?view=help/subjectguides/anclit-alpha.html&option=printversion (1486 words)

	lucan
		Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (November 3, AD 39 - April 30, 65), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, and is one of the outstanding figures of the Silver Latin period.
		Lucan was born in Cordoba in present-day Spain, and was the nephew of Seneca the Younger.
		As with Vergil's masterpiece, Lucan's epic poem was unfinished at the time of his death, and its untidy condition is reflected in its 400 complete and partial copies.
	www.fact-library.com /lucan.html (292 words)

	Pharsalia (DL SunSITE)
		Originally written in Latin, approximately A.D. 61-65, by the Roman poet Lucan, and probably left unfinished upon his death in A.D. Although the work has been generally known through most of history as the "Pharsalia", modern scholarship tends to agree that this was not Lucan's choice for a title.
		When the conspiracy was discovered, Lucan was given the option of suicide or death; he chose suicide, and recited several lines of his poetry while he died (possibly Book III, l.
		Lucan's "Pharsalia" was left (probably) unfinished upon his death, coincidentally breaking off at almost the exact same point where Julius Caesar broke off in his commentary "On the Civil War".
	sunsite3.berkeley.edu /OMACL/Pharsalia (488 words)

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		Scaliger did not want anyone to read Lucan because he felt that Lucan's astronomy was behind his own times, and because he constantly argued that all Roman poets were a thorn in the paw of astronomical progress.
		Scaliger's and later Housman's attacks can be summed up like this: Lucan was not as good an astronomer or geographer as I am, therefore he was an inferior poet (both critics actually were accomplished poets).
		The irony in this case is that Lucan clearly attempted, to the limits of his stunningly catholic education, to present what we would call a realistic background of facts.
	www.richmond.edu /~wstevens/keplerlucan/allessay.html (9020 words)

	Pharsalia (DL SunSITE)
		Originally written in Latin, approximately A.D. 61-65, by the Roman poet Lucan, and probably left unfinished upon his death in A.D. Although the work has been generally known through most of history as the "Pharsalia", modern scholarship tends to agree that this was not Lucan's choice for a title.
		When the conspiracy was discovered, Lucan was given the option of suicide or death; he chose suicide, and recited several lines of his poetry while he died (possibly Book III, l.
		Lucan was born into a prominent Roman family (Seneca the Elder was his grandfather, and Seneca the Younger his uncle), and seems to have befriended the young Emperor Nero at an early age.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /OMACL/Pharsalia (9020 words)

	Gallic Deities
		Teutates, whose name means "God of the People", was mentioned by the Roman poet Lucan, who identified him with the Roman gods &; Mars (Ares) or Mercury (Hermes).
		Taranis was one of three gods mentioned by the Roman poet Lucan; the other gods were Esus and Teutates.
		Lucan mentioned Teutates along with Esus and Taranis, whom the Gauls (Ligurian and Treveri tribes) practiced blood sacrificial rites.
	www.timelessmyths.com /celtic/gallic.html (3045 words)

	MAKOWSKI
		The argument can be made, however, that Claudian's use of Lucan's De bello civili goes well beyond verbal borrowing for rhetorical effect and is, in fact, a conscious modeling of structure, theme, and language--a modeling which the poet occasionally pursues at the cost of fact and logic.
		Thus, Claudian's catalog of barbarian troops serves exactly the same structural and thematic purpose as the one in B.C., and we can discern Lucanian influence on the rhetoric and shaping of speeches, as indicated by a comparison of Laelius's speech with that of the army to Stilicho at IR 2.228-246.
		Claudian too, while framing his Allecto and Megaera in Vergilian and Ovidian terms, follows Lucan in attributing the evil that is Rufinus to the infernal powers.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/03mtg/abstracts/makowski.html (385 words)

	Category:Poets [Definition]
		Lucan Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (November 3, AD 39 - April 30, 65), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, and is one of the outstanding figures of the Silver Latin period....
		He has become one of the most important poet and composer of Cape Verde and can be considered as a son of Mindelo.
		Manuel de Novas Manuel d' Novas (Manuel Jesus Lopes) was born the 24.2.1938 at the island of Santo Antão.
	www.wikimirror.com /Category:Poets (385 words)

	Why praise Jews: satire and history in the middle ages
		Lucan, who was often considered an historian and not a poet in the middle ages, had composed an encomium of Nero, that many medieval commentators understood to be ironic (Marti 1956), although not every medieval reader was convinced that Lucan intended the praise as blame.
		Since no Jews had settled in Arras, as Berger shows with meticulous documentation, the poet is not likely to have been singing their praise out of personal experience, or in expectation of a reward.
		The anonymous Jew goes on to give mock-fatherly advice to the boy, denouncing London (in words borrowed from Horace Satire 1.2), as well as a number of other English cities, reserving all his praise, such as it is, for Winchester.
	www.bu.edu /english/levine/dev.htm (2393 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE)
		By his wife Helvia of Corduba he had three sons: L. Annaeus Novatus, adopted by his father's friend, the rhetorician Junius Gallio, and subsequently called L. Junius Gallio; L. Annaeus Seneca, the philosopher; Annaeus Mela, the father of the poet Lucan.
		During the civil wars (which kept him in Spain and thus prevented him from ever hearing Cicero speak) his sympathies, like those of his native place, were probably with Pompey, as were those of his son and his grandson (the poet Lucan).
		Seneca was also the author of a lost historical work, containing the history of Rome from the beginning of the civil wars almost down to his own death, after which it was published by his son.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=83 (616 words)

	fr Lucain Marcus Annaeus Lucanus November 3 November 3 AD 39...
		fr:Lucain "Marcus Annaeus Lucanus" (November 3 November 3, AD 39 39- April 30 April 30, 65 65), better known in English as "Lucan", was a Roman Roman poet poet, and is one of the outstanding figures of the Silver Latin Silver Latin period.
		Lucan was born in Cordoba Cordoba in present-day Spain Spain, and was the nephew of Seneca the Younger Seneca the Younger.
		fr Lucain Marcus Annaeus Lucanus November 3 November 3 AD 39...
	www.biodatabase.de /Lucan (334 words)

	thorne.doc
		Just as Lucan’s prologue presents the “victorious” hand that plunges the sword into the victor’s own belly (1.3), so the aristeia of the snakes and of Libya herself is subverted by the poet to emphasize his message that traditional military success does not bring true victory in civil war.
		Fred Ahl reads it as Lucan’s attempt to give Cato a Homeric aristeia so as to highlight his virtue (Ahl 1976, 74), but I argue that in fact it is not Cato but rather the army of snakes that claims the aristeia, showing off its martial prowess by notching one kill after another.
		Yet this seeming purposelessness is emblematic, I argue, of one of Lucan’s primary message in his Pharsalia, namely the self-defeating nature inherent to civil war.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/03mtg/abstracts/thorne.html (334 words)

	The Nature of Things (Titus Lucretius Carus , Frank O. Copley)
		The Nature of Things is actually addressed to Memmius, just as the poet Lucan addressed his book on the Civil War between Pompey and Caesar, the Pharsalia, to the Roman emperor Nero a century later.
		The Roman poet Catullus, a contemporary of Lucretius, mentions Memmius in one of his 'hate' poems, calling him something quite nasty, because Memmius--when he was holding the office of Praetor in Asia Minor--cheated Catullus and his companions out of some tribute.
		Lucretius, from the evidence of his proem, was a man who lived very close to his ideals, whereas Memmius was a crafty "Goodie" who was later indicted of voting fraud by the senate.
	www.truefresco.com /bookshop/de/product/0393090949.htm (334 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine Book of Days November 3 Isia ancient Egypt Rebirth of Osiris Ignatius Donnelly Atlantis St Hubert of Liege horned god Lady Alice Kytler witch
		Lucan, Roman poet, born on November 3, 39 CE Between 18 and 20, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions.
		On November 18, 1893, in the Worker, a radical magazine, a journalist called "Murphy" pilloried and compared Australian poet and author Henry Lawson to Donnelly for his blood-and-thunder political article, '
		Ignatius Donnelly (born Philadelphia, November 3, 1831) was an idiosyncratic and somewhat quixotic American Congressman whose writings, particularly the utopian sci-fi novel,
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/nov3.html (3816 words)

	39 [Definition]
		November 3 - Lucan Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (November 3, AD 39 - April 30, 65), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, and is one of the outstanding figures of the Silver Latin period....
		During the reign of Caligula he was banished (AD 39) for adultery with the emperor's sisters, but recalled by Claudius (41)....
		Julia Drusilla Julia Drusilla (39 AD-41 AD) was the only child and daughter of Roman Emperor Gaius (Caligula) and his fourth and last wife Caesonia.
	www.wikimirror.com /39 (3816 words)

	Amazon.com: Nature of Things: Books: Titus Lucretius Carus
		The Nature of Things is actually addressed to Memmius, just as the poet Lucan addressed his book on the Civil War between Pompey and Caesar, the Pharsalia, to the Roman emperor Nero a century later.
		The Roman poet Catullus, a contemporary of Lucretius, mentions Memmius in one of his 'hate' poems, calling him something quite nasty, because Memmius--when he was holding the office of Praetor in Asia Minor--cheated Catullus and his companions out of some tribute.
		Lucretius: On the Nature of Things by Walter Englert
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393090949?v=glance (1414 words)

	Bard - Cafe
		As early as the 1st century AD, the Latin author Lucan referred to bards as the national poets or minstrels of Gaul and Britain.
		Bards were originally Celtic composers of eulogy and satire; the word came to mean more generally a tribal poet-singer gifted in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds.
		Bard: a poet, especially one who writes impassioned, lyrical, or epic verse.
	bard-cafe.komkon.org (466 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Spanish Language and Literature
		Another luminary of the age was Juan de Mena (1411-56), the royal historiographer, to whom we are indebted especially for the "Laberinto", in which he not only indulged his allegorizing propensities but also makes obvious his devotion to the ancient Spanish Latin poet Lucan.
		Luis de León was of Salamanca, at whose university he taught: at Seville an excellent poet was Fernando de Herrera (about 1534-97) whose martial odes and sonnets, celebrating Lepanto and Don John of Austria, are illustrative of his muse.
		His masterpiece is the framework of tales, the "Conde Lucanor" (or "Libro de Patronio").
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14192a.htm (466 words)

	NERO - LoveToKnow Article on NERO
		Early in 65 Nero was panic-stricken by the discovery of a formidable conspiracy involving such men as Faenius Rufus, Tigellinuss colleague in the prefecture of the praetorian guards, Plautius Lateranus, one of the consuls elect, the poet Lucan, and, lastly, not a few of the tribunes and centurions of the praetorian guard itself.
		Piso, Faenius Rufus, Lucan and many of their less prominent accomplices, and even Seneca himself (though there seems to have been no evidence of his complicity) were executed.
		But, though largesses and thanksgivings celebrated the suppression of the conspiracy, and the round of games and shows was renewed with even increased splendour, the effects of the shock were visible in the long list of victims who during the next few months were sacrificed to his restless fears and resentment.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NERO.htm (4221 words)

	Bard - Cafe
		As early as the 1st century AD, the Latin author Lucan referred to bards as the national poets or minstrels of Gaul and Britain.
		Bards were originally Celtic composers of eulogy and satire; the word came to mean more generally a tribal poet-singer gifted in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds.
		Bard: a poet, especially one who writes impassioned, lyrical, or epic verse.
	bard-cafe.komkon.org (474 words)

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