Writing on classical texts, interpretation, and reception across cultures.

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“… let Pharsalia's fields swell with curses, Hannibal's shade glut on blood—" (Lucan, Civil War 1.38-9 tr. M. Fox)Unlike other epic poems that praise heroes and how wonderful they are, Lucan's Civil War starts with all doom and gloom. I was particularly struck by this description for Pharsalus,

Cursed Fields: how Pharsalus and Sekigahara remember the dead

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