Description Book VII of Lucan\'s De Bello Ciuili recounts the decisive victory of Julius Caesar over Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus on 9 August 48 BCE.
Lucan\'s account of Pha.
Book VII shows both De Bello Ciuili and its impassioned, partisan narrator at their idiosyncratic best.
Uniquely within Lucan\'s epic, the entire Book is devoted to one event, as the narrator struggles to convey the full horror and significance of Romans fighting against Romans and of the republican defeat.
Description Book VII of Lucan\'s De Bello Ciuili recounts the decisive victory of Julius Caesar over Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus on 9 August 48 BCE