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Roman poet (39–65)

Also known as: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Lucanus, Lukan, Марк Анней Лукан, لوكان, 루카누스

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Latin epic hexameter on Rome's destiny, which Lucan's Pharsalia directly answers and inverts (AI reason)
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Publius Papinius Statius45–96
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Seneca-4–65
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Gaius Valerius Flaccus45–95
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Ovid-42–17
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Tacitus55–120
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pessimistic, epigrammatic history of Rome's loss of liberty under the emperors (AI reason)
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Juvenal55–200
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Petronius27–66
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Neronian writing whose Satyricon includes a civil-war poem engaging Lucan's epic (AI reason)
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Plutarch40–120
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lives of Caesar, Pompey and Cato covering the same civil war with moral focus (AI reason)
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