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title: "Pharsalia (Masters of Latin Literature) Paperback – December 16, 1993"
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# Pharsalia (Masters of Latin Literature) Paperback – December 16, 1993

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beyond awesome!
*by M***E on September 15, 2012*

I teach the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, and Dante's Divine Comedy, so I'm fairly familiar with the epic genre. But I had never read Pharsalia until this past summer. I really only picked it up because Dante references it so much. I thought I'd see what all the fuss was about. Though the book is nominally about the battle of Pharsalus, which occurred during the civil wars between Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus, it is more, as the introduction says, a book about "politics and psychology, of disastrous patterns of behavior, and the compulsion to repeat them...it is about the day Romans brought the Roman Republic to an end, the day the world turned its sword against its own vitals." Pharsalia is, of course, patterned on the Aeneid, but as the translator, Jane Joyce, also points out, the main difference is in tone. "Vergil's poem is the work of a gentle, but gloomy, optimist; Lucan's, of an angry and bitter pessimist." And it is amazing. I thought I had read the best battle scenes I would ever read in the Iliad - but Pharsalia equals and occasionally tops those. Listen to this individual death during the sea battle at Massilia in Book III - Lucan means to compare this one death to the whole civil war:...While Catus is fighting on this ship's highpoop deck and - bold man! - is grasping a Greek stern-ornament,he is pierced, back and chest alike, by two spears thrownsimultaneously. Inside his chest, iron collides,and his blood stops, undecided from which wound it should flow,until copious gore thrusts out both javelins at once,dividing his soul and splitting his death between two wounds.I can't figure out why Lucan has lapsed into obscurity, and I'm certainly going to try to present him to my students more. Pharsalia is a one of a handful of classical works that should be part of the Western canon that is commonly taught, and a fitting partner to the Aeneid. Get the translation by Jane Wilson Joyce - it is BRILLIANT, with lots of helpful notes. I wish this had a Kindle version, but given its relatively unknown status, it probably never will.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pharsalia is great!  Vendor was just OK
*by S***Y on May 2, 2019*

The quality said it had only minor writing in it .. but this book was covered in writing and underlines that even went through words. The book is in sturdy shape though. It looks like it used to be a library book.Pharsalia is a great history if you are really interested in Caesar! It is a high level reading ... donit can be difficult at times. It is a great challenge to sharpen the mind!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ EXCELLENT!!
*by C***C on May 27, 2024*

Lucan ROCKS! 50 BC-ish, but this translation is perfection. This edition is not a dual text. It is straight English except for illustrative Latin quotes here & there.Aside from being a great read, this blew my mind when I got to read (as pointed out) what surely was the seed for Frankenstein (yes, Mary Shelley did read this - in the original Latin) 'The Modern Prometheus'.Put on you must read list.

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