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Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.19-1.20


nanTo sate barbarians with the blood of Rome? Did not the shade of Crassus, wandering still, Cry for his vengeance? Could ye not have spoiled, To deck your trophies, haughty Babylon? Why wage campaigns that send no laurels home? What lands, what oceans might have been the prize Of all the blood thus shed in civil strife! Where Titan rises, where night hides the stars, 'Neath southern noons all quivering with heat, Or where keen frost that never yields to spring


nanIn icy fetters binds the Scythian main: Long since barbarians by the Eastern sea And far Araxes' stream, and those who know (If any such there be) the birth of NileHad felt our yoke. Then, Rome, upon thyself With all the world beneath thee, if thou must, Wage this nefarious war, but not till then. Now view the houses with half-ruined walls Throughout Italian cities; stone from stone Has slipped and lies at length; within the home


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

6 results
1. Homer, Iliad, 1.1, 1.8 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

1.1. /The wrath sing, goddess, of Peleus' son, Achilles, that destructive wrath which brought countless woes upon the Achaeans, and sent forth to Hades many valiant souls of heroes, and made them themselves spoil for dogs and every bird; thus the plan of Zeus came to fulfillment 1.8. /from the time when first they parted in strife Atreus' son, king of men, and brilliant Achilles.Who then of the gods was it that brought these two together to contend? The son of Leto and Zeus; for he in anger against the king roused throughout the host an evil pestilence, and the people began to perish
2. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.771-6.776, 8.347-8.350 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

6.771. In the great Titan bosom; nor will give 6.772. To ever new-born flesh surcease of woe. 6.773. Why name Ixion and Pirithous 6.774. The Lapithae, above whose impious brows 6.775. A crag of flint hangs quaking to its fall 6.776. As if just toppling down, while couches proud 8.347. and strangled him, till o'er the bloodless throat 8.348. the starting eyeballs stared. Then Hercules 8.349. burst wide the doorway of the sooty den 8.350. and unto Heaven and all the people showed
3. Vergil, Eclogues, 4.18-4.20, 4.31-4.35 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4.18. hall free the earth from never-ceasing fear. 4.19. He shall receive the life of gods, and see 4.20. heroes with gods commingling, and himself 4.31. caressing flowers. The serpent too shall die 4.32. die shall the treacherous poison-plant, and far 4.33. and wide Assyrian spices spring. But soon 4.34. as thou hast skill to read of heroes' fame 4.35. and of thy father's deeds, and inly learn
4. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.1-1.18, 1.20-1.32, 1.81, 1.522-1.668, 1.678-1.695, 2.1-2.2, 3.154-3.157, 3.160, 3.169, 3.197-3.200, 3.240-3.241, 3.267, 3.282-3.283, 3.297, 4.402-4.581, 6.474, 6.810-6.811, 7.634, 7.825-7.834, 7.862, 8.281, 8.444-8.447, 8.465, 8.477-8.478, 8.498, 8.525-8.526, 8.542-8.544, 8.559, 8.855-8.862, 8.871-8.872, 9.82, 9.133-9.135, 9.266, 9.413, 9.705, 9.752, 9.816, 9.1010-9.1104, 10.80, 10.142, 10.149-10.158, 10.268-10.275 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Valerius Flaccus Gaius, Argonautica, 1.1-1.5, 1.12-1.16, 1.71-1.78, 1.168-1.169, 1.246-1.247, 1.498-1.502, 1.544-1.557, 2.107-2.310, 3.14-3.266, 3.290-3.313, 3.323, 3.334-3.342, 3.352-3.361, 4.114-4.132, 6.1-6.426, 6.429, 6.439-6.445, 6.447-6.448, 6.450-6.476, 6.496-6.502, 6.529-6.541, 6.548-6.549, 6.575-6.603, 6.622-6.629, 6.631-6.635, 6.639-6.641, 6.647-6.648, 6.652-6.653, 6.661, 6.699-6.706, 6.723-6.751 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

6. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 37.21.2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

37.21.2.  He celebrated the triumph in honour of all his wars at once, including in it many trophies beautifully decked out to represent each of his achievements, even the smallest; and after them all came one huge one, decked out in costly fashion and bearing an inscription stating that it was a trophy of the inhabited world.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
absyrtus Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
achilles Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 41
actium, catalyst for the roman perception of egypt Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 48
aeetes Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122; Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
aeson Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
africa Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
agamemnon Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 41
amycus Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
anchoring allusions Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 37, 38, 39, 40, 41
apostrophe Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 247
argo, as first ship Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
argo Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 295, 297
britannicus Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
caesar, julius, character in lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 41
caesar, withdraws from gaul Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
catalogue, in lucan Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
civil war Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163, 293, 295, 296, 297; Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 48; Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
claudius Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
cleopatra vii, hostess to caesar Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 48
colchis Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122; Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163, 293, 296
cupido, desire for the nile and egypt Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 48
cyzicus Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 296
doliones Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
domitian Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
east, the Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
ennius, model / anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 108
ennius, time and space in Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 108
foreshadowing Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 296
geography, and conquest Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
geography Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45, 48
golden age Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
golden fleece Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
goos Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 247
guest-friendship in egypt, and lucans caesar Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 48
hannibal Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 39, 40, 247
hesperia, as evocative term in the ph. Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 38, 39
hippolytus Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
homer, lucans use of Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 247
homer, model / anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 41, 247
homer, reproach in Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 247
imperialism Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 48
indians Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
ino Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
iolcus Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122; Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
iron age Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
italy Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45
jason Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122; Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
jerusalem Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
jupiter Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
jupiter (see also zeus) Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163, 296, 297
lemnos Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
lucan Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163, 293, 295, 296, 297
medea Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
metapoetic diction, minor Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 37
narrator Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 38
neptune (see also poseidon) Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
nero Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
nile, delta (mouths of the nile) Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 48
nile, hostile Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 48
nile, inundation (flood) of the Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45
nile, sources of the Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45
orbis Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
pelias Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163, 295
pelusium, mouth of the nile Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45, 48
perses Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122; Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
pharsalia, as place and time Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 37, 38, 39
pompey Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 41; Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
pompey (gnaeus pompeius magnus), defines egypt and the nile Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45, 48
populus romanus, as central character in the pharsalia Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 37, 38, 39
primitivism Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
pyrrhus Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 39, 40, 247
rivers, literary and philosophic metaphors Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45
rivers Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
roma, as a character Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 247
rome, empire Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
rome Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 295, 297; Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
saturn Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
saturn (see also cronus) Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
space and time in the ph. Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 37, 38, 39, 108
suicide' Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 295
suicide Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 293, 297
threnos Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 247
titus Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
triumph Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
valerius flaccus, and apollonius rhodius Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
valerius flaccus, and seneca Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
valerius flaccus, civil war in Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
valerius flaccus, date of poem\u2003 Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 295
valerius flaccus, pessimism\u2003 Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 297
vespasian Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 163
violence Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 41
virgil, as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 38
vulteius Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 293, 295