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Lucan, Pharsalia, 7.457-7.459


nanBe won, behold me exile, your disgrace, My kinsman's scorn. From this, 'tis yours to save. Then save! Nor in the latest stage of life, Let Magnus be a slave." Then burned their souls At these his words, indignant at the thought, And Rome rose up within them, and to die Was welcome. Thus alike with hearts aflame Moved either host to battle, one in fear And one in hope of empire. These hands shall do Such work as not the rolling centuries


nanBe won, behold me exile, your disgrace, My kinsman's scorn. From this, 'tis yours to save. Then save! Nor in the latest stage of life, Let Magnus be a slave." Then burned their souls At these his words, indignant at the thought, And Rome rose up within them, and to die Was welcome. Thus alike with hearts aflame Moved either host to battle, one in fear And one in hope of empire. These hands shall do Such work as not the rolling centuries


nanBe won, behold me exile, your disgrace, My kinsman's scorn. From this, 'tis yours to save. Then save! Nor in the latest stage of life, Let Magnus be a slave." Then burned their souls At these his words, indignant at the thought, And Rome rose up within them, and to die Was welcome. Thus alike with hearts aflame Moved either host to battle, one in fear And one in hope of empire. These hands shall do Such work as not the rolling centuries


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1. Homer, Iliad, 8.31, 24.804 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

8.31. /But at length there spake among them the goddess, flashing-eyed Athene:Father of us all, thou son of Cronos, high above all lords, well know we of ourselves that thy might is unyielding, yet even so have we pity for the Danaan spearmen who now shall perish and fulfill an evil fate. 24.804. /lest the well-greaved Achaeans should set upon them before the time. And when they had piled the barrow they went back, and gathering together duly feasted a glorious feast in the palace of Priam, the king fostered of Zeus.On this wise held they funeral for horse-taming Hector.
2. Herodotus, Histories, 3.80 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3.80. After the tumult quieted down, and five days passed, the rebels against the Magi held a council on the whole state of affairs, at which sentiments were uttered which to some Greeks seem incredible, but there is no doubt that they were spoken. ,Otanes was for turning the government over to the Persian people: “It seems to me,” he said, “that there can no longer be a single sovereign over us, for that is not pleasant or good. You saw the insolence of Cambyses, how far it went, and you had your share of the insolence of the Magus. ,How can monarchy be a fit thing, when the ruler can do what he wants with impunity? Give this power to the best man on earth, and it would stir him to unaccustomed thoughts. Insolence is created in him by the good things to hand, while from birth envy is rooted in man. ,Acquiring the two he possesses complete evil; for being satiated he does many reckless things, some from insolence, some from envy. And yet an absolute ruler ought to be free of envy, having all good things; but he becomes the opposite of this towards his citizens; he envies the best who thrive and live, and is pleased by the worst of his fellows; and he is the best confidant of slander. ,of all men he is the most inconsistent; for if you admire him modestly he is angry that you do not give him excessive attention, but if one gives him excessive attention he is angry because one is a flatter. But I have yet worse to say of him than that; he upsets the ancestral ways and rapes women and kills indiscriminately. ,But the rule of the multitude has in the first place the loveliest name of all, equality, and does in the second place none of the things that a monarch does. It determines offices by lot, and holds power accountable, and conducts all deliberating publicly. Therefore I give my opinion that we make an end of monarchy and exalt the multitude, for all things are possible for the majority.”
3. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.116-1.118 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.466-6.474, 6.549-6.550 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

5. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.1-1.4, 1.72-1.80, 1.128, 1.642-1.645, 2.1-2.2, 2.4, 2.7-2.13, 2.116, 2.263-2.264, 2.319-2.322, 4.807-4.808, 6.784-6.790, 7.356-7.360, 7.387-7.456, 7.458-7.459, 7.638-7.643 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

6. Plutarch, Romulus, 28.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

28.3. These things seemed to the Romans worthy of belief, from the character of the man who related them, and from the oath which he had taken; moreover, some influence from heaven also, akin to inspiration, laid hold upon their emotions, for no man contradicted Proculus, but all put aside suspicion and calumny and prayed to Quirinus, and honoured him as a god.
7. Seneca The Younger, Hercules Furens, 338-339, 931-933, 935-937, 337 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

8. Seneca The Younger, Oedipus, 700-708, 699 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

9. Seneca The Younger, Thyestes, 205-219, 340-399, 204 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

10. Vergil, Aeneis, 1.257-1.258, 1.278-1.279, 7.266-7.268, 12.952

1.257. in panic through the leafy wood, nor ceased 1.258. the victory of his bow, till on the ground 1.279. Such was his word, but vexed with grief and care 7.266. Once out of Tuscan Corythus he fared; 7.267. but now in golden house among the stars 7.268. he has a throne, and by his altars blest 12.952. were battering the foundations, now laid by


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subject book bibliographic info
achilles Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
aeneas,as tyrannus Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38
agamemnon Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
apocalyptic literature Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
astronomy,stars Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 151
atreus Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
caesar,c. julius,lucan Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38, 39
caesar,julius,commentarii de bello civili Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 139
cannae,battle of,compared with pharsalia Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 114, 115
cato,the younger Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38, 39
cicero,as reader Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 125
closure,passim Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8, 139
code and norm in epic Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 114, 119, 121
consulship,its destruction in the ph. Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
conte,gian biagio Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 114, 121
creon,sen. king oedipus Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
deification,ascent to heavens Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 151
di manes Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 151
emperor cult Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 151
ennius,model / anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 129, 139
ennius,time and space in Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117
epiphany,of romulus-quirinus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 151
eteocles,sen. phoen. Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
fear,as principle of government or ruling device Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
fear,tyrants psychology Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38, 39
gods,the absence of their providence in lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8, 114, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 124, 125
hector Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 139
hercules Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
hesperia,as evocative term in the ph. Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 124
homer,model / anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 139
humour Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 151
imperial family Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 151
jupiter,aen. Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38
jupiter,met. Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38
juturna Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38
livius andronicus Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 119
lucretius Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 117, 120
mars Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 122, 123
metapoetic diction,degener Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 122
metapoetic diction,fatum Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 117
muses Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 125
naevius Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 119
narrator Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 113, 114, 120
nenia,nero,reign of Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
nero Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38, 39
ovid Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 124
pharsalia,name of the poem Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 116, 117
pluto,ov. met. Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38
pompey Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38, 39
populus romanus,as central character in the pharsalia Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 122, 123, 124, 125, 129
romulus,deified,quirinus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 151
romulus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 151; Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 122, 123
scaeva Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 139
seneca,herc. fur. Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
seneca,oed. Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
seneca,thy. Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
seneca Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
servius,as reader Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 119
space and time in the ph. Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 120, 123
stoicism,fate Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
suicide,anger Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
sun Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 151
tereus Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38, 39
thyestes Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
topoi,of a day of doom, Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117
turnus,as tyrannus Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38
turnus Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38
tyrant,epic tradition Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38, 39
tyrant,psychology of Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 38, 39
tyrant,roman stock Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
tyrant,senecas tragedies Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 39
virgil,as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 116, 117, 124, 139
war,weapons (arma)' Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 151