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title: "Civil War (Oxford World's Classics)"
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# Civil War (Oxford World's Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Braund's Translation of the Text is Excellent
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 5, 2013*

There are not many translations of Lucan's Civil War, sometimes titled Pharsalia.Susan H Braund's translation of Lucan's Civil War is a great translation. Lucan's Civil War is a work from the time of Nero and is incomplete due to the authors death. Nonetheless it is a great epic that is quite different from the others. It takes on a grotesque tone with descriptions of battles and descriptions of ghosts and witches. It takes place during the Civil War that saw Caesar rise to power and does not hide who Lucan supports. Some of the poetic use is lost in this translation due to its translation to Latin but it makes up for this with its explicit character. Braund captures the heterodox Stoicism that underlies the text and makes it appear not just in the overarching story but in the characters as they relate to each other. Passive Aggressive tones are captured just as well as the sense of foreboding and pessimism the text expresses.

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    Great book marred by poor footnote integration
  

*by C***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2014*

Great translation, but having to guess where the footnotes are makes this an unfortunate read.  There are no footnote indicators in the text itself, you have to go to the end of the book to see the notes but they are not integrated into the main text. Strange, since the other Oxford classical texts are done properly.

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    Review of Braund's Lucan
  

*by R***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 15, 2012*

Braund is painfully literal, which may her translation great as an aid to my reading of the Latin text, but made the translation itself a bit unexciting. The trouble with Lucan, in my view, is that so many of his richest moments are also incredibly subtle. There's also no way to deny that it's difficult--very difficult--to render the geographical/astronomical/sophistic passages interesting to modern English readers.Braund had a great set of notes at the end, too. (I wish these were footnotes, but beggars can't be choosers. There aren't many editions of English Lucan in print.)

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