Pharsalia (aka The Civil War ) By Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) A.D. 39 - A.D. 65 Online Medieval and Classical Library Release #16b Originally written in Latin, approximately A.D. 61-65, by the Roman poet Lucan, and probably left unfinished upon his death in A.D. 65. Although the work has been generally known through most of history as the Pharsalia , modern scholarship tends to agree that ...