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Lucan, Pharsalia, 3.267


nanOf mystic sense (in shape of beast or fowl) Preserved the secrets of their magic art. Next Persean Tarsus and high Taurus' groves Are left deserted, and Corycium's cave; And all Cilicia's ports, pirate no more, Resound with preparation. Nor the East Refused the call, where furthest Ganges dares, Alone of rivers, to discharge his stream Against the sun opposing; on this shore The Macedonian conqueror stayed his foot


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

3 results
1. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.829-6.831 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

6.829. Immortal athletes play, and wrestle long 6.830. 'gainst mate or rival on the tawny sand; 6.831. With sounding footsteps and ecstatic song
2. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.12, 1.19, 1.408-1.419, 1.444-1.446, 1.450-1.462, 3.154-3.157, 3.160, 3.169-3.266, 3.268-3.297, 3.301-3.303, 3.316, 3.322, 3.342-3.348, 6.784-6.790, 9.16 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

3. 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
africa, in the ph. Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
africa Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385, 388
agamemnon Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167; Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
antiphony Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
asia minor Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
battle Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373
boeotians Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 384
caesar, julius, as hannibal revived Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 155
caesar, withdraws from gaul Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 384, 385, 388
caesar Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 384, 385
catalogue, in lucan Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 384, 385, 388
cato the elder Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
civil war Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 385, 388
colchis Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
crash landing in libya Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
east, the Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 385, 388
ennius, model / anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 155
gaul Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 384
geography, and conquest Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385, 388
geography, and perspective Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 384
gods, the absence of their providence in lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 155
greece Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
hannibal Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 155
homer, lucans use of Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
imperialism Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373
india Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
indians Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
libya Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
metapoetic diction, fragmentum Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
naevius, model and anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
orbis Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
pompey, likened to agamemnon Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
pompey Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 384, 385, 388
rivers Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
rome, empire Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
rome Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 384, 385, 388
scipio africanus Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
scythia Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
sea Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 384
sea power and seafaring, landings Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
sea power and seafaring Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
space and time in the ph. Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 155
spaces, as expression of perspective Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 384
syrtes Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
taurus Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
triumph' Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
underworld Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
west, the Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385