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Lucan

c. 39 CE–c. 65 CE · Rome

Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, 39 - 65 CE) was a Roman poet of the age of Nero and a nephew of the philosopher Seneca. His major work is the "Civil War" (often called the "Pharsalia"), an unfinished epic poem on the war between Julius Caesar and Pompey, notable for its grim tone and its break with the convention of involving the gods in the action. Implicated in a conspiracy against the emperor, he was forced to take his own life at the age of twenty-five.

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About Rome

Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.

In Rome at the same time

Seneca the Elder, Celsus, Valerius Maximus, Phaedrus, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus

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