Bellum Civile

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Bellum Civile, commonly known as Lucan’s Pharsalia, is a Latin epic poem that dramatically recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great.

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Label Occurrences
Bellum Civile canonical 2
The Civil Wars 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin epic poem ⓘ
poem about civil war ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Lucan’s Pharsalia ⓘ
Pharsalia ⓘ
linked to: Lucan’s Pharsalia
approximateDateOfComposition mid-1st century CE ⓘ
author Lucan ⓘ
centralConflict power struggle between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Roman Empire ⓘ
featuresCharacter Brutus ⓘ
Cato the Younger ⓘ
Cicero ⓘ
Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey’s son) ⓘ
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus ⓘ
linked to: Pompey the Great

Julius Caesar ⓘ
Marcus Licinius Crassus ⓘ
Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis ⓘ
Sextus Pompeius ⓘ
firstBookCount 10 surviving books ⓘ
genre epic poetry ⓘ
influenced Christopher Marlowe ⓘ
Dante Alighieri ⓘ
French neoclassical tragedy ⓘ
influencedBy Homeric epic ⓘ
Virgil’s Aeneid ⓘ
linked to: Virgil's Aeneid
isUnfinished true ⓘ
language Latin ⓘ
literaryMovement Neronian literature ⓘ
literaryPeriod Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ
literaryTradition Roman epic tradition after Virgil ⓘ
mainSubject Roman civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great ⓘ
collapse of the Roman Republic ⓘ
metre dactylic hexameter ⓘ
narrativePerspective third-person ⓘ
notableFeature absence of traditional epic gods as active characters ⓘ
frequent digressions and speeches ⓘ
highly rhetorical style ⓘ
stoic philosophical elements ⓘ
strongly anti-Caesarian tone ⓘ
numberOfBooksExtant 10 ⓘ
numberOfBooksPlanned 12 ⓘ
originalTitle Bellum Civile ⓘ
philosophicalOrientation Stoicism ⓘ
setting Africa ⓘ
Battle of Pharsalus ⓘ
linked to: Pharsalus

Greece ⓘ
Italy ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ
Thessaly ⓘ
theme civil war as self-destruction of Rome ⓘ
fate and human agency ⓘ
liberty versus tyranny ⓘ
moral decline of Rome ⓘ
timeOfComposition reign of Nero ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lucan’s Pharsalia → title → Bellum Civile ⓘ
Roman History (Appian) → notableSection → The Civil Wars ⓘ
subject linked to: Roman History
linked to: Bellum Civile
Bellum Civile → originalTitle → Bellum Civile ⓘ