Horace (lyric poet and satirist, 1st Century BCE) Ovid (didactic and elegiac poet, 1st Century BCE – 1st Century CE) Seneca the Younger (tragic playwright and satirist, 1st Century CE) Lucan (epic poet, 1st Century CE) Juvenal (satirist, 1st – 2nd Century CE) Pliny the Younger (corres...
In the case of the cup, opting for the medieval form suits well enough the function of the item inscribed: the goliardic poet was a heavy drinker, or claimed to be. In the same poem the Archpoet expresses his memorable ambition,meum est propositum in taberna mori/ ut sint vina proxima...
(Lucan, Phars. vi. 396, &c.; Hom. Il. xxiii. 277; Apollod. iii. 13. § 5.)The symbol of Poseidon's power was the trident, or a spear with three points, with which he used to shatter rocks, to call forth or subdue storms, to shake the earth, and the like. Herodotus (ii....
FANTHAM, Elaine, «The angry poet and the angry gods: problems oi theodicy in Lucan's epic of defeat», en BRAUND, Susan M. - MOST, Glenn W. (eds.), Ancient Anger. Perspec- tives from Homer to Galen, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 229- 49....
Lucan was a Roman poet and republican patriot whose historical epic, the Bellum civile, better known as the Pharsalia because of its vivid account of that battle, is remarkable as the single major Latin epic poem that eschewed the intervention of the god
There is a striking description of the gifts and amusements provided by the Emperor for the Roman populace at the Saturnalia, the festival of the winter solstice, and his birthday ode honouring the poet Lucan has, along with the usual exaggerations, some good lines and shows an appreciation of...
In Rome his reliance on Oriental favourites and his general misgovernment led to a conspiracy by Gaius Calpurnius Piso in 65, but it was suppressed, leading to yet more executions; the victims included the poet Lucan. The empire was not enlarged under this unwarlike emperor, but it was ...