The twelve Caesars

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LUCAN : PHARSALIADramatic Disodes of the Giuit inars

Lucan had been planning an epic poem about thefrst Civit War, to glori' Nero as the successor of the victorious Julius Caesar: but now transformed theepic into an attach on the whole principi e of Caesar-dom, and prefaced the First Book with a satirical dedi

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LSI Virgil was the greatest of the ancient Roman poetsand his Aeneid is the greatest of ait Latin poems. Itrelates the adventures of Aeneas, the legendary herowho was said to have fassed from Troy to Italy andio have laid there the foundations os Roman pomer. Virgil was a master of the storyteller's ari and his narrative has not a duli page in it, but he was also a poetos immense range, depili, and subit ety, who e ressed in the enchanting music of his writing a great numberos intricate meanings whicli are connected with thestory, but in no way impede iis flow. The translation preserves the vitality of the original, mahing a fascinat g and continuous story, at thesame time keeping close enough to the Latin to en- courage the reader to turn to it and e oy the pleasure whicli Virgil's own words Can giVe.

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