The Disappearers by Marlon James: “I really want to pick the Theban plays or Lucan's Civil War”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “Though it is not, most assuredly, the intention of Lucan to exalt the character of Caesar, yet the idea he gives of that hero, in the tenth book of the Pharsalia, … is, in reality, the noblest panegyric.”