Pharsalia [The Civil War]
c.65
Lucan's epic of the Roman civil war: Caesar crossing the Rubicon, Pompey's flight and murder in Egypt, and the war carried into Africa, in Edward Ridley's verse translation. Lucan died in Nero's purge of 65 CE with the poem unfinished; it breaks off in the tenth book.
- Book I The Crossing of the Rubicon
- Book II The Flight of Pompeius
- Book III Massilia
- Book IV Caesar in Spain. War in the Adriatic Sea. Death of Curio.
- Book V The Oracle. The Mutiny. The Storm
- Book VI The Fight Near Dyrrhachium. Scaeva's Exploits. The Witch of Thessalia
- Book VII The Battle
- Book VIII Death of Pompeius.
- Book IX Cato
- Book X Caesar in Egypt