Civil War LucanPevná vazba
Civil War LucanPevná vazba Lucan (M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. Annaeus Lucanus, 39-65 CE), son of wealthy M. But…
Specifikacia Civil War LucanPevná vazba
Civil War LucanPevná vazba
Lucan (M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. Annaeus Lucanus, 39-65 CE), son of wealthy M.
But having defeated Nero in a poetry contest he was interdicted from further recitals or publication, so that three books of his epic The Civil War were probably not issued in 61 when they were finished. In 60 CE at a festival in Emperor Nero's honour Lucan praised him in a panegyric and was promoted to one or two minor offices. By 65 he was composing the tenth book but then became involved in the unsuccessful plot of Piso against Nero and, aged only twenty-six, by order took his own life.Quintilian called Lucan a poet full of fire and energy and a master of brilliant phrases.
His epic stood next after Virgil's in the estimation of antiquity. Julius Caesar looms as a sinister hero in his stormy chronicle in