The Civil War - Pharsalia or Bellum Civile

The only surviving work of the Roman poet Lucan and 1 of the supreme achievements of Augustan verse.

Lucan was a Roman poet of Spanish origin, the nephew of Seneca.

The only 1 of his works to have survived is a sweeping historical epic about the civil wars between Pompey and Caesar, written in 10 books, which both Shelley and Macauley admired.