Disputationes Quinti et Lunae de Bello civili poetae M. Annaei Lucani

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The book is, like the previous works by Mato Baotic, a fictional dialogue between two persons about an author of Roman antiquity. The book can be understood as a didactic introduction of pupils and students to the poet Lucan. Some words from the author himself about the underlying material of his book: The epic of the Roman poet Lucanus. Lucanus has left posterity an epic about the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompeius Magnus, in which brothers fought against their brothers, fathers against their sons, other relatives and former acquaintances fought. For this reason, civil wars are particularly terrible. Since Lucanus was a follower of Stoic philosophy, civil wars were for him a crime against humanity. The hero in this epic is not Julius Caesar, but Pompeius Magnus, the son-in-law of Caesar. During the civil war, fighting took place in Gaul, Spain and Africa. In this war, Caesar defeated the soldiers of Pompeius at Pharsalus in the year 48 BC. Pompeius fled to Egypt, where he was killed on the orders of King Ptolemy. Some experts believed that Lucanus, who was a connoisseur of history, was indeed a speaker, but would not have been a poet. About this wrote the poet V. Martialis in the 14th book of epigrams: "CXCIV Lucanus" There are certain people who say I am not a poet. But the bookseller who sells me believes it.' Despite everything, the author is of the opinion that the epic of Lucanus 'De bello civili' is a magnificent heroic poem.