Editing Battle of Pharsalus (section)

== In popular culture ==
The battle gives its name to the following artistic, geographical, and business concerns:

* ''[[Pharsalia]]'', a poem by [[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus|Lucan]]
* [[Pharsalia, New York]], U.S.
* [[Pharsalia Technologies]], Inc.

In [[Alexandre Dumas]]' ''[[The Three Musketeers]]'', the author makes reference to Caesar's purported order that his men try to cut the faces of their opponents – their vanity supposedly being of more value to them than their lives.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dumas |first=Alexander |date=2009 |title=The Three Musketeers |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=620 |isbn=978-0199538461 }}</ref>

In Mankiewicz's 1963 film ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]'', the immediate aftermath of Pharsalus is used as an opening scene to set the action in motion.<ref name=SCS>{{cite web |url=https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/144/372gardner |title= 37.2.Gardner |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= 13 November 2012 |publisher= [[Society for Classical Studies]] |access-date= 12 September 2020|quote=Rex Harrison’s regretful musings on the field of Pharsalus at the opening scene of ''Cleopatra''.}}</ref>