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Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database



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Lucan, Pharsalia, 7.768


nanGaze on unnumbered swords that flashed in air And sought his ruin; and the tide of blood In which his host had perished. Yet not as those Who, prostrate fallen, would drag nations down To share their evil fate, Pompeius did. Still were the gods thought worthy of his prayers To give him solace, in that after him Might live his Romans. "Spare, ye gods," he said, "Nor lay whole peoples low; my fall attained, The world and Rome may stand. And if ye need


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

4 results
1. Hesiod, Theogony, 80, 79 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

79. Rose up. They to their father made their way
2. Aristotle, Poetics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.878-15.879 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

4. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.185-1.192, 7.7-7.20, 7.24, 7.770-7.776, 7.778, 7.785-7.786, 9.232-9.233, 9.961, 9.980-9.986 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
anchoring allusions Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 26, 64
apostrophe Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 26
caesar,julius,commentarii de bello civili Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 26
cornelia metella Mowat (2021), Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic, 154
ennius,model / anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
fortuna (fortune) Mowat (2021), Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic, 154
julia (wife of pompey) Mowat (2021), Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic, 154
julius caesar,gaius Mowat (2021), Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic, 154
marius gratidianus Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
metapoetic diction,amputo Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
metapoetic diction,spiramen Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
oneiromancy Mowat (2021), Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic, 154
ovid,as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 26
patria Mowat (2021), Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic, 154
pompeius magnus,gnaeus (pompey) Mowat (2021), Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic, 154
stoicism Mowat (2021), Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic, 154
troy,site of in the ph. Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 26
underworld Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
violence' Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
virgil,as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 26