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Civil War by Lucan
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The great Roman poet Lucan is considered one of the most important Latin Poets of all time. His masterful epic "Pharsalia", or "Civil War" chronicles the dynamic battle between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. The Great Civil War led to the downfall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the ...Show more
Civil War by Lucan; Brian Walters (Translator); W. R. Johnson (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry
The rousing chronicle of the struggle that shattered Rome and set the stage for empire. Lucan lived from 39-65 AD at a time of great turbulence in Rome. His Civil War portrays two of the most colorful and powerful figures of the age-Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, enemies in a bloody and convulsive ...Show more
Civil War by Lucan
Category: Poetry
This is a magnificent new translation of the enduring epic about the sundering of the Roman Republic. Lucan lived from 39-65 AD at a time of great turbulence in Rome. His "Civil War" portrays two of the most colourful and powerful figures of the age - Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, enemies in a vic ...Show more
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way
Category: Politics World
Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution--such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam--are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large ...Show more
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