On it stood the lighthouse.
(See Book IX, 1191.) Proteus, the old man of the sea, kept here his flock of seals, according to the Homeric story.
("Odyssey", Book IV, 400.) (26) Younger sister of Cleopatra.
PREPARER'S NOTES: Lucan's "Pharsalia" (or, "Civil War", as many scholars now prefer to call it) was written approximately a century after the events it chronicles took place.
Lucan was born into a prominent Roman family (Seneca the Elder was his grandfather, and Seneca the Younger his uncle), and seems to have befriended the young Emperor Nero at an early age.

He was for several years a poet of some prominence in the Emperor's court, and it is during this period that the "Civil War"/"Pharsalia" was probably begun.

However, Nero and Lucan's friendship evidently soured, and in A.D.65 Lucan joined Calpurnius Piso's conspiracy to overthrow Nero.

When the conspiracy was discovered, Lucan was given the option of suicide or death; he chose suicide, and recited several lines of his poetry while he died (possibly Book III, l.

700-712).
Lucan's "Pharsalia" was left (probably) unfinished upon his death, coincidentally breaking off at almost the exact same point where Julius Caesar broke off in his commentary "On the Civil War".