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Lucan, Pharsalia, 3.394


nanPerished in flames, we sought another here; And here on foreign shores, in narrow bounds Confined and safe, our boast is sturdy faith; Nought else. But if our city to blockade Is now thy mind — to force the gates, and hurl Javelin and blazing torch upon our homes — Do what thou wilt: cut off the source that fills Our foaming river, force us, prone in thirst, To dig the earth and lap the scanty pool; Seize on our corn and leave us food abhorred:


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1. Homer, Iliad, 23.114-23.122 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

23.114. /while yet they wailed around the piteous corpse. But the lord Agamemnon sent forth mules an men from all sides from out the huts to fetch wood and a man of valour watched thereover, even Meriones, squire of kindly Idomeneus. And they went forth bearing in their hands axes for the cutting of wood 23.115. /and well-woven ropes, and before them went the mules: and ever upward, downward, sideward, and aslant they fared. But when they were come to the spurs of many-fountained Ida, forthwith they set them to fill high-crested oaks with the long-edged bronze in busy haste and with a mighty crash the trees kept falling. 23.116. /and well-woven ropes, and before them went the mules: and ever upward, downward, sideward, and aslant they fared. But when they were come to the spurs of many-fountained Ida, forthwith they set them to fill high-crested oaks with the long-edged bronze in busy haste and with a mighty crash the trees kept falling. 23.117. /and well-woven ropes, and before them went the mules: and ever upward, downward, sideward, and aslant they fared. But when they were come to the spurs of many-fountained Ida, forthwith they set them to fill high-crested oaks with the long-edged bronze in busy haste and with a mighty crash the trees kept falling. 23.118. /and well-woven ropes, and before them went the mules: and ever upward, downward, sideward, and aslant they fared. But when they were come to the spurs of many-fountained Ida, forthwith they set them to fill high-crested oaks with the long-edged bronze in busy haste and with a mighty crash the trees kept falling. 23.119. /and well-woven ropes, and before them went the mules: and ever upward, downward, sideward, and aslant they fared. But when they were come to the spurs of many-fountained Ida, forthwith they set them to fill high-crested oaks with the long-edged bronze in busy haste and with a mighty crash the trees kept falling. 23.120. /Then the Achaeans split the trunks asunder and bound them behind the mules, and these tore up the earth with their feet as they hasted toward the plain through the thick underbrush. And all the woodcutters bare logs; for so were they bidden of Meriones, squire of kindly Idomeneus. 23.121. /Then the Achaeans split the trunks asunder and bound them behind the mules, and these tore up the earth with their feet as they hasted toward the plain through the thick underbrush. And all the woodcutters bare logs; for so were they bidden of Meriones, squire of kindly Idomeneus. 23.122. /Then the Achaeans split the trunks asunder and bound them behind the mules, and these tore up the earth with their feet as they hasted toward the plain through the thick underbrush. And all the woodcutters bare logs; for so were they bidden of Meriones, squire of kindly Idomeneus.
2. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.741-8.776 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

3. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.179-6.182 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

6.179. Cocytus circles through the sightless gloom. 6.180. But if it be thy dream and fond desire 6.181. Twice o'er the Stygian gulf to travel, twice 6.182. On glooms of Tartarus to set thine eyes
4. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.80-1.84, 2.14-2.15, 2.728, 3.169, 3.399-3.452, 5.57-5.59, 7.205-7.206, 7.211, 7.647, 7.685-7.686, 7.796, 8.485-8.487, 9.173, 9.890-9.891 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Silius Italicus, Punica, 10.527-10.534 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

6. Statius, Thebais, 6.90-6.106 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

7. Valerius Flaccus Gaius, Argonautica, 1.509, 1.557, 4.479-4.481 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

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anchoring allusions Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 78
anger, divine Braund and Most, Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (2004) 245
anger, in roman epic Braund and Most, Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (2004) 245
antiphony Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 83
argonauts Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 98
caesar, julius, at the massilian grove Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83
caesar, julius, favored by fortuna Braund and Most, Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (2004) 245
civil war Braund and Most, Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (2004) 245
colchis Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 98
cornelia Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 83
ennius, alignment with / adaptation of homer Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 79
ennius, model / anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 78, 79, 80, 81
epic poetry, roman Braund and Most, Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (2004) 245
fear, and hope ( spes ) Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 98
fortuna Braund and Most, Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (2004) 245
homer, aligned with ennius Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 79
homer, lucans use of Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 81, 82, 83
homer, model / anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 77
juno, arg. Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 98
jupiter, arg. Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 98
lucan, fear and hope Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 98
lucan Braund and Most, Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (2004) 245
metapoetic diction, fama Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 80, 81
metapoetic diction, frons Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 81, 83
metapoetic diction, membrum Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 80
metapoetic diction, primus / primum Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 83
metapoetic diction, silua Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 75, 76, 79, 83
murder, of pompey Braund and Most, Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (2004) 245
ovid, as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 74, 80, 81, 82
pharsalus Braund and Most, Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (2004) 245
phineus Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 98
pompey, death of Braund and Most, Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (2004) 245
pompey Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 98; Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 80, 81
pothinus Braund and Most, Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (2004) 245
ptolemy Braund and Most, Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (2004) 245
scaeva Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 83
silius italicus Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 74
sol Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 98
statius Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 74, 76
stoicism, fate Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 98
topoi, of deforestation of grove Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 74
topoi, of one-against-many in battle Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 83
vacca Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 76
venus, aen. Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 98
vespasian Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 98
violence' Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 83
violence Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82
virgil, as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 78, 79, 81
virgil Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 75