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Civil War

Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
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This new translation in free verse conveys the full force of Lucan's writing and his grimly realistic view of the subject.

The Introduction sets the scene for the reader unfamiliar with Lucan and explores his relationship with earlier writers of Latin epic, and his interest in the sensational.

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Oxford University Press
0199540683 / 9780199540686
Paperback / softback
873.01
08/05/2008
United Kingdom
English
400 p.
20 cm
Reprint. This translation originally published: Oxford: Clarendon, 1992.