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Lucan, Pharsalia, 7.634


nanCeased in the wider plain, though still ablaze Where stood the chosen of Pompeius' force, Upholding yet the fight. Not here allies Begged from some distant king to wield the sword: Here were the Roman sons, the sires of Rome, Here the last frenzy and the last despair: Here, Caesar, was thy crime: and here shall stay My Muse repelled: no poesy of mine Shall tell the horrors of the final strife, Nor for the coming ages paint the deeds


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

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

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. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 3.392-3.395 (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

3.392. θεσπεσιην οἴσω κληηδόνα· καὶ δέ τοι ἤδη 3.393. πρόφρονές εἰμεν ἄρηι θοὴν ἀποτῖσαι ἀμοιβήν 3.394. εἴτʼ οὖν Σαυρομάτας γε λιλαίεαι, εἴτε τινʼ ἄλλον 3.395. δῆμον σφωιτέροισιν ὑπὸ σκήπτροισι δαμάσσαι.’
3. Vergil, Aeneis, 12.952 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

12.952. were battering the foundations, now laid by
4. Vergil, Georgics, 1.501-1.502 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.501. Appear the stars' keen edges, nor the moon 1.502. As borrowing of her brother's beams to rise
5. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.1-1.7, 1.9-1.29, 1.72-1.80, 1.522-1.668, 1.678-1.695, 2.1-2.2, 3.154-3.157, 3.160, 3.169, 3.297, 4.98-4.120, 5.396, 6.784-6.790, 7.356-7.360, 7.387-7.459, 7.617-7.633, 7.635-7.646, 7.794-7.802, 7.862 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

6. Valerius Flaccus Gaius, Argonautica, 2.82-2.102, 2.218-2.219, 2.242-2.305, 3.455, 6.402-6.412, 6.575-6.603, 6.631-6.635, 6.639-6.641, 6.661, 6.699-6.706, 6.723-6.751 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aeetes Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 302
aeneas Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161
apocalyptic literature Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 8
caesar, julius, commentarii de bello civili Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 139
caesar, julius, ending republican institutions Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 134
caesar, julius, his calendar Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 134
civil war Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161, 302
closure, passim Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 8, 139
code and norm in epic Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 127
colchis Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161, 302
consulship, its destruction in the ph. Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 8, 134
cyzicus Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161
ennius, alignment with / adaptation of homer Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 127
ennius, model / anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 108, 127, 128, 134, 139
ennius, standing in antiquity Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 127
ennius, time and space in Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 108
gods, the absence of their providence in lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 8
hector Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 139
homer, model / anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 139
hypsipyle Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161
jason Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161
jupiter (see also zeus) Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161
laomedon Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161
lemnos Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161
lucan Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161, 302
mars Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161
nenia, nero, reign of Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 8
ovid, as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 134
perses Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 302
populus romanus, as central character in the pharsalia Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 127, 128
scaeva Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 139
seneca Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 8
simile' Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 302
space and time in the ph. Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 108, 128
thoas Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161
troy Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161
venus (see also aphrodite) Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161
virgil, as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 134, 139
virgil Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161
vulcan Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 161
vulteius Heerking and Manuwald, Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus (2014) 302