Works
According to Vacca and Statius, Lucan's works included:
Surviving work:
- Bellum Civile (Civil War), on the wars between Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus
Often attributed to him (but to others as well):
- Laus Pisonis (Praise of Piso), a panegyric of a member of the Piso family
Lost works:
- Catachthonion
- Iliacon from the Trojan cycle
- Epigrammata
- Adlocutio ad Pollam
- Silvae
- Saturnalia
- Medea
- Salticae Fabulae
- Laudes Neronis, a praise of Nero
- Orpheus
- Prosa oratio in Octavium Sagittam
- Epistulae ex Campania
- De Incendio Urbis, on the Roman fire of 64, perhaps accusing Nero of arson
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