What to Read After Pharsalia
Readers who loved Pharsalia by Lucan keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Pharsalia is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Pharsalia
Homeric Hymns
The Eclogues
Ovid with an English translation: Heroides and Amores
Odes
The Nature of the Gods
Daphnis and Chloe
On Sparta (Penguin Classics)
Comedies
The Secret History
The Georgics of Virgil translated by Thomas Neville, ..
The poems of exile
Epigrams
L' Orlando furioso
Fasti
The theological tractates
The Homeric hymns
The Idylls of Theocritus.
The poems of Catullus
The satires
Satyricon
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Ars Amatoria
De rerum natura
Metamorphoses