Lucan's life and times : vitae and other evidence -- Lucan's antiphrastic epos -- Book IV and its place in the poem -- Language and style -- Diction -- Syntax and word order -- Rhetorical devices -- M
Lucan was the nephew of Seneca, and like him, condemned to self suicide by Nero. His magnificent poem, Bellum civile, remained beloved throughout the Middle Ages and into the early modern era. In this
