PHARSALUS

färˈsäləs, ancient city, Thessaly, Greece. Near there in 48 b.c., Julius Caesar decisively defeated Pompey, who had a much larger force. Lucan's Bellum Civile (often called Pharsalia) is an epic of the civil war.

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Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement
Book by Matthew Leigh; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Epic Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Lucan--39-65--Pharsalia, Pharsalus, Battle Of, 48 B.C., In Literature, Rome--History--Civil War, 49-45 B.C--Literature And The War
...wars. I begin my discussion of Lucans Pharsalus narrative with this brief passage because...the futility of mourning individuals: Pharsalus is a universal disaster. Moreover...this scene. The universal impact of Pharsalus is expressed spatially at lines 7. 632...
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The Pharsalia of Lucan: Literally Translated into English Prose with Copious Notes
Book by H. T. Riley; Henry G. Bohn, 1853
Subjects: Pharsalus, Battle Of, 48 B.C, Rome--History--Civil War, 49-48 B.C
...This was a river of Thessaly, joining the Enipeus near Pharsalus. Ovid, in the Metamorphoses, B. i. l. 580, calls it...rises in Mount Othrys in Thessaly, receives the Apidanus near Pharsalus, and flows into the Peneus. There were rivers in Elis and...
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The Roman Legions
Book by H. Parker; Clarendon Press, 1928
Subjects: Rome--Army
...XXXVIII, with the legions organized after Pharsalus, and the fact that XXX, which was now...the Ilerda campaign and the battle of Pharsalus, legions, numbered certainly XXXI...been there at the time of the battle of Pharsalus, 2 and is certainly in that district...
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Caesar: A Biography
Book by Gérard Walter, Emma Craufurd, Therese Pol; Charles Scribners Sons, 1952
Subjects: Caesar, Julius, Emperors--Rome--Biography
...survey of the two battles, Dyrrachium and Pharsalus, is found in Rice Holmes, op. cit...pp. 430-481 For the battlefield of Pharsalus, cf. Seldner, Das Schlachtfeld yon Pharsalus Mannhein, 1883 ; Lucas, The Battlefield...
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Italian Manpower, 225 B.C.-A.D. 14
Book by P. A. Brunt; Clarendon Press, 1987
Subjects: Armies--Rome--History, Italy--History, Military, Italy--Population--History, Manpower--Italy--History
...legions in Italy, while Caesar before Pharsalus had raised the total of legions ever...the survivors of the army defeated at Pharsalus. None the less at Caesars death there...to 200,000, over half perhaps since Pharsalus.4 Statements in this section are founded...
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journal articles on: Pharsalus  - 13 results

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The Double Visions of Pompey and Caesar
Journal article by John L. Penwill; Antichthon, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Books, Epic literature, Poetry, Roman civilization
...that Pompey had a dream the night before Pharsalus. According to Appian (BC 2.68...the morning of the climactic battle of Pharsalus. Both exploit links with the past...dream, the second dream, from which Pharsalus and its aftermath provides the rudest...
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The Ambitions of Quintus Labienus 'parthicus' *
Journal article by John Curran; Antichthon, Vol. 41, 2007
Subjects: Civil war
...foreign policy priorities.48 Prior to Pharsalus, the Pompeian Scipio Metellus sent detachments...actually be served by Roman arms. Following Pharsalus, some particularly dramatic circumstances...68 The outcome of the battle, as with Pharsalus, brought Caesarian perspectives back...
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The Agony of Departure: Silius Italicus' Punica 17.149-290
Journal article by Frances Mills; Antichthon, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Epic literature, Poetry, Poets, Silius Italicus (25-101)
...Luc. BC 3.1-7), to his flight from the battlefield at Pharsalus (Luc. BC 7.647-97).39 Silius has drawn attention...Caesar will return to Greece and win the decisive battle of Pharsalus, Hannibals expulsion from Italy will lead to Zama and the...
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Katherine Philips as Political Playwright: "The Songs between the Acts" in Pompey
Journal article by Anne Russell; Comparative Drama, Vol. 44, 2010
Subjects: Death--Portrayals, Philips, Katherine--Works, Pompey's Death (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Pompey's Death (Play)--Translations and translating, Romantic love--Portrayals, Tragedies (Drama)--Criticism and interpretation, Tragedies (Drama)--Translations and translating
...in the early years of the Restoration. After the Battle of Pharsalus in the Roman civil wars, the virtuous Pompey is betrayed...The action of Corneilles play begins after the Battle of Pharsalus, with the news that the defeated Pompey is en route to Egypt...
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Georg Kaiser's Amphitryon: An Expressionistic Dilemma
Journal article by Paul Neumarkt; Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, Vol. 25, 2004
Subjects: German literature--Criticism and interpretation
...of their own creation. (6) When victory in the battle of Pharsalus is assured, Amphitryon exploits the momentary exhileration...to return to his wife even after the victorious battle at Pharsalus. Wilfred Trotter maintains that the individual affiliated...
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magazine articles on: Pharsalus  - 5 results

 
 
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Power Games
Magazine article by Frank Mclynn; New Statesman, Vol. 132, September 15, 2003
Subjects: Rubicon: the Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic (Book)--Reviews
...vacuum. In his military history Holland shortchanges us on Caesars military campaigns (nothing on the battles of Thapsus, Pharsalus, Zela and Munda) and does not stress enough the originality of his campaigns: he was operating in unknown lands, not the...
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Death & Politics
Magazine article by Joseph Bottum; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2007
Subjects: Burial laws--Analysis, Cemeteries--Facility closures, Death--Analysis, Mourning customs--Analysis, Politics--Analysis, San Francisco, California--Domestic policy, San Francisco, California--History
...poetically that funerals are unnecessary to honor the dead, after Caesars refusal to allow rites for his slain opponents at Pharsalus, because the sky itself is their monumental covering. But the Aeneid gives the older Roman tradition, when the sibyl warns...
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The Rise of Caesarism: The Weakened Roman Republic Was Crushed by Julius Caesar, a Charismatic Military Leader Who Exploited His Popularity with a Roman People Who Desired Security above All Else
Magazine article by Steve Bonta; The New American, Vol. 21, January 10, 2005
Subjects: Caesar, Julius--Criticism and interpretation, Caesar, Julius--History, Rome (Ancient state)--Natural history, Statesmen--Criticism and interpretation, Statesmen--History
...premonitions of disaster, Pompey bowed to the demands of his men and led them to the place where all would be hazarded, Pharsalus in northern Greece. Only about a month had elapsed since Dyrrachium, and Pompeys forces greatly outnumbered those of his...
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Alexander's Final Resting Place: Andrew Chugg Pinpoints the Emperor's Long-Lost Tomb
Magazine article by Andrew Chugg; History Today, Vol. 54, July 2004
Subjects: Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Egypt (City)--Buildings and facilities, Greece--History, Greek history, Kings, Kings and rulers, Tombs--Discovery and exploration
...by Lucan, composed during the reign of Nero. This recounts Julius Caesars victory over his rival Pompey at the battle of Pharsalus and Caesars ensuing pursuit of his opponent to Egypt. In two crucial passages Lucan describes Alexanders body preserved within...
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One's Company, Two's a Crowd
Magazine article; Chief Executive, January 1999
...discretion of the Senate. But power sharing among the triumvirates lasted only until Caesars legions could thump Pompeys at Pharsalus, and Octavians forces could sink Antonys at Actium. During the early middle ages, the papacy saw periods where several...


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newspaper articles on: Pharsalus  - 1 result

 
 
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Recounting Savage Battles, Victories of Ancient Rome with Caesar's Help
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 3, 2002
Subjects: Caesar, Julius, Rome, Italy
...political sinews to give it coherence. Dozens of savage battles are recounted in exacting detail, such as the climatic clash of Pharsalus, a close-run thing which ended the long contest for power in Caesars favor over his intense rival Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus...


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encyclopedia articles on: Pharsalus  - 16 results

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Pharsalus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PHARSALUS far sal s, ancient city, Thessaly, Greece. Near there in 48 b.c., Julius Caesar decisively defeated Pompey, who had a...
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Marcellus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Marcellus defended Milo against Clodius and joined the opponents of Julius Caesar in the civil war. Caesar pardoned him after Pharsalus. Marcus Claudius Marcellus, 42 b.c. 23 b.c., was son of Octavia, sister of Augustus , who greatly favored him...
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Caesar, Julius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...He met Pompey at Dyrrhachium but was forced to fall back and begin a long retreat southward, with Pompey in pursuit. Near Pharsalus , Caesar camped in a very strategic location. Pompey, who had a far larger army, attacked Caesar but was routed (48 b...
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Dolabella
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...daughter of Cicero, to gain the support of that statesman. He transferred allegiance from Pompey to Caesar, fought at Pharsalus, and accompanied Caesar to Africa and Spain. On the assassination of Caesar he at first favored the conspirators, then...
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Cicero, Quintus Tullius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...attacks of Ambiorix; and went to Cilicia (51 b.c.) as legate with his brother. He fought for Pompey in the battle of Pharsalus. He was proscribed and killed with his brother. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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