Lucan's Pharsalia represents an innovation within the Roman epic; he breaks with the Homeric-Virgilian tradition, from which he starts, and demystifies the epic by eliminating the divine and wonderful apparatus, thereby provoking the accusation of many of his contemporaries, who considered him a historian and not a poet; he is the main representative of the historical poem, in which he introduces the ideals of Stoic morality spread by Seneca the Philosopher. who were the dominant in their time.