A scene in this poem in which men on a raft engage in a suicide pact by stabling each other immediately jumps to an interlude describing Antaeus’s fight with Hercules. Gory scenes in this poem include two fathers fighting over a decapitated body and the upper half of a cut-in-half man drowning after falling overboard. (-5[1])This poem’s protagonist and deuteragonist are introduced with similes comparing (15[1])them to a thunderbolt and an oak tree, (15[1])respectively. Much of this poem’s sixth (15[1])book focuses on a detailed necromancy ceremony performed by the witch (*) Erichtho on behalf of Sextus. (10[1])This poem’s tenth and final book ends abruptly with its hero fighting off the Egyptian noble Ganymede, (10[2])likely because Nero forced the suicide of its author. (10[1])For 10 points, what epic poem by Lucan is sometimes titled (10[1])for a battle where Caesar defeated (10[2])Pompey? ■END■