Pharsalia
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Pharsalia
Pharsalia was also an ancient district in Greece in which Pharsalus was located. Pharsalia (also known as the Bellum civile or Civil War) is a
Roman
epic poem
by the poet
Lucan
, telling of the
civil war
between
Julius Caesar
and the forces of the
Roman Senate
led by
Pompey the Great
. Pharsalia is a reference to the
Battle of Pharsalus
, which occurred in
48 BC
, near
Pharsalus
,
Thessaly
, in northern
Greece
, where Caesar decisively defeated Pompey.
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