Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Birth date: November 05, 0039
Died: May 02, 0065
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus's Books
Lucan was a contemporary of Nero, and in fact died at the age of 25 when he slit his own wrists after he was discovered involved in a plot to overthrow the emperor (it seems as if this was a dignified way to die in the early empire). As such Lucan's poem regarding the civil war between Caeser and Po...
I ended up reading this for a paper for my Ancient Rome class. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't had to read it and do the paper all in the same week. I might reread it one day, to see if I would have enjoyed it otherwise. I enjoyed reading Virgil's Aeneid and Cicero's Selected Works,...
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