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Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 3

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The third book of Silius Italicus' Punica tells the story of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps during the Second Punic War. This new translation is accompanied by a commentary exploring the poem's poetic, philosophical, and historiographic background.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

1. The Political Life and Literary Formation of Silius Italicus

2. Hannibal's Enterprise

2.1. In the Steps of Hercules?

2.2. In the Steps of Aeneas?

3. Hannibal and Imilce

4. Hannibal's Army

4.1. Historiographic Assessment and Poetic Distortion

4.2. Silius' Epic Catalogue of Hannibal's Troops

4.3. Icons of Imperialism in Hannibal's African and Iberian Troop Catalogues

4.4. The Significance of Iberia in the Catalogue

5. Hannibal's Alpine Crossing

5.1. Hannibal's Route and Recent Archaeological Evidence

5.2. Sublimity

5.3. Hannibal and Further Epicurean Postures

6. Divine Prophecy

6.1. Epic Closural Motifs

6.2. Jupiter and Venus

6.3. Hammon's Oracle

7. Language and Style

7.1. Diction and Figures of Speech

7.2. Epic Similes

7.3. Metre and Prosody

8. Text and Transmission

SIGLA, TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND APPARATUS CRITICUS

COMMENTARY

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

03. Oktober 2022

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

412

Autor/Autorin

Antony Augoustakis, R Joy Littlewood

Verlag/Hersteller

Oxford University Press

Produktart

gebunden

Gewicht

762 g

Größe (L/B/H)

242/163/26 mm

ISBN

9780198821281

Portrait

Antony Augoustakis

Antony Augoustakis is the author of Statius, Thebaid 8 (OUP, 2016), Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (OUP, 2010) and Plautus' Mercator (Bryn Mawr, 2009). He has edited and co-edited several volumes on Flavian epic, Roman comedy, and Late Antiquity. He serves as editor of The Classical Journal.

R. Joy Littlewood has published commentaries on Ovid's Fasti Book 6 (OUP, 2006), Silius Italicus' Punica Book 7 (Oxford, 2011), and Punica 10 (Oxford, 2017). She has recently completed the fourth volume of J. C. McKeown's commentary on Ovid's Amores.

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