Abstract
This paper examines the debt owed to the description of the sea battle of Massilia in Lucan's Civil War by two seventeenth-century poems, Thomas May's Continuation of Lucan and Abraham Holland's Naumachia. It demonstrates how these poets systematically strip away Lucan's prurient interest in depicting anatomical violence by means of adapted translations of Lucan's original battle scene. The varying emphases of their appropriations of The Civil War are used to examine Lucan's position as a talisman for different poetic, historical, and political interests.
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