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De bello civili (Pharsalia)
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De bello civili
‘Concerning the civil war’
or Bellum civile; also known (incorrectly) as the Pharsalia
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Lucan (1st century AD)
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Classical Latin
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| Description
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Epic poem on the civic war between Julius Caesar and Pompey
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See the Middle Irish adaptation known as In cath catharda.
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Editions
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Joyce, Jane Wilson (ed. and tr.), Lucan. Pharsalia, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1993.
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Shackleton Bailey, D. R. (ed.), M. Annaei Lucani, De Bello Civili libri X, Stuttgart, 1988.
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Luck, Georg (ed.), Lukan. Der Bürgerkrieg, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1985.
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Housman, Alfred E. (ed.), M. Annaei Lucani. Belli Civilis libri decem, Oxford, 1926.
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Bourgery, A., and M. Ponchont (eds.), Lucain. La guerre civile (La Pharsale), 2 vols, Paris, 1926—1929.
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Hosius, C. (ed.), M. Annaei Lucani Belli Civilis libri decem, Leipzig: Teubner, 1913.
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Housman, Alfred E. (ed.), and J. D. Duff (tr.), Lucan. The civil war, books i-x (Pharsalia), Loeb Classical Library 220, London: Heinemann, 1928. » The Latin text is largely reprinted from Housman's edition, without critical apparatus and with a few minor alterations. Internet Archive: 1
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Fantham, Elaine (ed.), Lucan. De bello civili: book II, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 31, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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Braund, S. H. (tr.), Lucan: Civil War, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Secondary sources
General studies:
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Ahl, Frederick M., Lucan: an introduction, Cornell Studies in Classical Philology 39, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1976.
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Masters, Jamie, Poetry and civil war in Lucan’s Bellum Civile, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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On the transmission of the text during the Middle Ages:
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Gotoff, Harold C., The transmission of the text of Lucan in the ninth century, Loeb Classical Monographs, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1971.
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Werner, Shirley, “The text of Beinecke MS 673, an eleventh-century manuscript to Lucan”, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 140:3-4 (1997): 299—308. PDF Rheinisches Museum
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Hosius, C. (ed.), M. Annaei Lucani Belli Civilis libri decem, Leipzig: Teubner, 1913.
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