Civil War
Lucan, A.E. Housman, Hugo Grotius
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of the subject. The work is a powerful condemnation of civil war, emphasizing the stark, dark horror of the catastrophies which the Roman state inflicted upon itself. Both the introduction and glossary set the scene for readers unfamiliar with Lucan and explore his relationship with earlier
writers of Latin epic, and his interest in the sensational.
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