marcus annaeus lucanus

Question 1

lucan full name

Answer 1

marcus annaeus lucanus

Question 2

lucan years

Answer 2

39-65 BC

Question 3

where was lucan born

Answer 3

corduba

Question 4

who was born in corduba in 39 BC

Answer 4

lucan

Question 5

who was grandson of seneca the elder

Answer 5

lucan

Question 6

who was nephew of seneca the younger

Answer 6

lucan

Question 7

who was STE’s grandson

Answer 7

lucan

Question 8

who was STY’s nephew

Answer 8

lucan

Question 9

who was lucan’s father

Answer 9

L. annaeus mela

Question 10

whose father was L. annaeus mela

Answer 10

lucan

Question 11

who did lucan study under

Answer 11

coruntus

Question 12

who did lucan study with under cornutus

Answer 12

persius

Question 13

what is consdiered to be the best work of the Civil age

Answer 13

lucan’s bellum civile

Question 14

who write bellum civile

Answer 14

lucan

Question 15

what is another name for lucan’s bellum civile

Answer 15

pharsalia

Question 16

how many books is lucan’s bellum civile

Answer 16

10

Question 17

what is considered to be the greatest latin epic after the aeneid

Answer 17

lucan’s bellum civile

Question 18

what work is called “anti-aeneid”

Answer 18

lucan’s bellumm civile

Question 19

what is lucan’s bellum civile about

Answer 19

ulius Caesar’s struggle against the Senatorial party of Rome

Question 20

what years does lucan’s bellum civile cover

Answer 20

49-48 BC

Question 21

why is lucan’s bellum civile considered an epic and not a history

Answer 21

no divine intervetion

Question 22

what is the only divine figure in lucan’s bellum civile

Answer 22

the goddess Roma (which appears to caesar)

Question 23

who are the heros in lucan’s bellum civile

Answer 23

pompey, cato, and the senatorial party

Question 24

who made lucan quaestor and augur

Answer 24

nero

Question 25

what did nero make lucan

Answer 25

quaestor and augur

Question 26

when did lucan recieve a prize from nero

Answer 26

at the neronia

Question 27

who became jealous of luacn's success and forbade him to publish any more works

Answer 27

nero

Question 28

whose success was nero jealous of

Answer 28

lucan

Question 29

who forced lucan to commit suicide

Answer 29

nero

Question 30

why did nero force lucan to commit suicide

Answer 30

Lucan’s involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy

Question 31

whose involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy forced them to commit suicide

Answer 31

lucan

Question 32

who else related to lucan did nero force to commit suidice

Answer 32

his father and two uncles (Seneca and Gallio) to commit suicide

Question 33

what did nero force lucan's father and two uncles (Seneca and Gallio) to do

Answer 33

commit suicide also