Many Roman writers seem to have composed epigrams, including Domitius Marsus, whose collection Cicuta ( now lost ) was named after the poisonous plant Cicuta for its biting wit, and Lucan, more famous for his epic Pharsalia.

Taranis, along with Esus and Toutatis as part of a sacred triad, was mentioned by the Roman poet Lucan in his epic poem Pharsalia as a Celtic deity to whom human sacrificial offerings were made.

At that time Milan was known as the Pharsalia Post Office.

Pharsalia was founded from part of the Town of Norwich in 1806, but was then called the " Town of Stonington.

" In 1808, the town was renamed " Pharsalia.

This verse translation, or rather paraphrase of the Pharsalia, was called by Samuel Johnson one of the greatest productions in English poetry, and was widely read, running through eight editions between 1718 and 1807.

Not far from Krk in 49 BC there was a decisive sea battle between Caesar and Pompey, which was described impressively by the Roman writer Lucan ( AD 39 – 65 ) in his work Pharsalia.

In Pharsalia, the poet Lucan dramatized it as a place where sunlight could not reach through the branches, where no animal or bird lived, where the wind did not blow, but branches moved on their own, where human sacrifice was practiced, in a clear attempt to dramatize the situation and distract from the sacrilege entailed in its destruction.

On 1 July 1912, Mannix was consecrated titular Bishop of Pharsalia and Coadjutor to Archbishop Carr of Melbourne in Maynooth College Chapel.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus was a poet of the early empire who chose to immortalize the civil wars in verse, beginning Pharsalia with a famous first line calling them the " uncivil wars " ( bella ... plus quam civilia, " wars beyond civil ").

: Pharsalia was also an ancient district in Greece in which Pharsalus was located.

Jáuregui died at Madrid on the January 11, 1641, leaving behind him a translation of the Pharsalia which was not published until 1684.

His nephew Lucan wrote the Pharsalia ( about 60 ), an epic poem describing the civil war between Caesar and Pompey.

During this time he circulated the first three books of his epic poem, Pharsalia ( labelled De Bello civili in the manuscripts ), which told the story of the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey.

The Pharsalia ( also known as De Bello Civili " On the Civil War " or also simply Bellum Civile " The Civil War ") is a Roman epic poem by the poet Lucan, telling of the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the Roman Senate led by Pompey the Great.

Engraved Title Page of a French edition of Lucan's Pharsalia, 1657

A third edition in 1600, published by John Flasket, printed a title-page advertising the addition of Marlowe's translation of Book I of Lucan's Pharsalia to the original poem, though the book itself merely adds Chapman's portion.

* Pharsalia, a poem by Lucan

** Pharsalia by Lucan ( Roman history )

* Lucan, Pharsalia 1. 556, mentions the di indigetes along with the Lares.

Eumolpus ' poem on the Civil War and the remarks with which he prefaces it ( 118-124 ) are generally understood as a response to the Pharsalia of the Neronian poet Lucan.

Lucan, writing under Nero, also made Cato the hero of the later books of his epic, the Pharsalia.

Lucan in his Pharsalia ( c. 61 AD ) described Ligurian tribes as being long-haired, and their hair a shade of auburn ( a reddish-brown ):

* Lucan ( 1718 ), a paraphrase of the Pharsalia

In the Early Middle Ages, Demogorgon is mentioned in the tenth-century Adnotationes super Lucanum, a series of short notes to Lucan's Pharsalia that are included in the Commenta Bernensia, the " Berne Scholia on Lucan ".

Lucan also describes the attack of the jaculus in the Pharsalia.

In his Pharsalia Lucan described such a grove near Massilia in dramatic terms more designed to evoke a shiver of delicious horror among his Roman hearers than meant as proper natural history:

Lucan concludes Book 1 of his epic Bellum civile ( also known as the Pharsalia ) with a portrayal of Nigidius uttering dire prophecies, based in part on astrological readings.

In the epic by the poet Lucan, Pharsalia ( VI, 507 — 830 ), she summons a spirit to reveal to Pompey the Great's son, Sextus Pompeius, the outcome of the Battle of Pharsalus.

Though the Pharsalia is an historical epic, it would be wrong to think Lucan is only interested in the details of history itself.

* After Asterix and Obelix sink the pirates ship, an elderly pirate quotes Lucan in The Pharsalia: " Victrix causa diis placuit, sed victa catoni.

* Lucanus, The Pharsalia of Lucan, Translated by Henry Thomas Riley, H. G. Bohn 1853

* Lucan, Bellum civile ( aka Pharsalia ) iv.

Some critics have seen resemblances between Cervantes ' tragedy and Aeschylus's The Persians, while others reject that the play is a conventional tragedy .< ref > Paul Lewis-Smith, " Cervantes ’ Numancia as Tragedy and as Tragicomedy ,” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies </> 64 ( 1987 ): 15-26 .</ ref > Some envision the play as containing epic elements or even exhibiting opposing epics: Virgil's Aeneid and Lucan's Pharsalia ,< ref > Emilie Bergmann, “ The Epic Vision of Cervantes < i > Numancia ,” Theater Journal 36 ( 1982 ); Frederick A.

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In Book IV of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus ' epic poem Pharsalia ( c. 65-61 AD ), the story of Hercules ' victory over Antaeus is told to the Roman Curio by an unnamed Libyan citizen.

A dead man is resuscitated by magic in a dramatic scene reminiscent of the necromantic revivification by the witch Erichto in the Pharsalia.

Born in Macerata and educated by a French priest at Rome, he entered the Jesuits ' college of his native town, where he produced a tragedy on the story of Darius, and versified the Pharsalia.

* East Pharsalia – A hamlet southeast of Pharsalia village near the south town line at the junction of County Roads 8 and 10.

* North Pharsalia – A hamlet northeast of Pharsalia village on NY-23.

* Pharsalia – The hamlet of Pharsalia is located on NY-23 near the west town line.

* Pharsalia Wildlife Management Area – A conservation area in the north part of the town.