Lucan's Bellum Civile (or Pharsalia ) on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey is one of Europe's most significant reference texts on human destructiveness. However, despite its significance in European intellectual history, the epic has been largely forgotten. The author gives an enthusiastic introduction to Lucan's volume, opening up new interpretative perspectives by combining approaches from literary studies and psychotraumatology

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Christine Walde, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany.