When Legends Come Alive, A Reading of Lucan's PharsaliaISBN: 978 83 7638 556 3 Description: softcover, 258 pp. (24x17cm), phots. Condition: new Weight: 447g. Joanna Pyplacz, When Legends Come Alive, A Reading of Lucan's Pharsalia, Bibliotheca Iagellonica, Fontes et Studia 28, Krakow 2015 The key to understanding the Pharsalia lies precisely in its highly intertextual character and its seemingly fragmentary structure, as it contains informal compositional units that are independent of the poems formal