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Brill's companion to Silius Italicus / Companion to Silius Italicus edited by Antony Augoustakis. - 1 online resource (xxi, 512 pages) - Brill's Companions in Classical Studies . - Brill's Companions to Classical Studies. Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online I, ISBN: 9789004219274. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-472) and indexes.

Preliminary material / Silius Italicus, A Flavian Poet / To Silius Through Livy and his Predecessors / Silius Italicus: A Consular Historian? / Virgil’s Dido and the Heroism of Hannibal in Silius’ Pvnica / Imitation and the Hero / Silius and Lucan / Interplay: Silius and Statius in the Games of Pvnica 16 / Hercules as a Paradigm of Roman Heroism / Virtue and Narrative in Silius Italicus’ Pvnica / The Shield and the Sword: Q. Fabius Maximus and M. Claudius Marcellus as Models of Heroism in Silius’ Pvnica / Fons Cuncti Varro Mali: The Demagogue Varro in Pvnica 8–10 / Picturing the Future Again: Proleptic Ekphrasis in Silius’ Pvnica / Silius’ Natural History: Tides in the Pvnica / Virtual Epic: Counterfactuals, Sideshadowing, and the Poetics of Contingency in the Pvnica / Engendering Orientalism in Silius’ Pvnica / Family and State in the Pvnica / Silius Italicus in the Italian Renaissance / The Reception of Silius Italicus in Modern Scholarship / Bibliography / General Index / Index Locorum I / Index Locorum II / Augoustakis Antony -- Antony Augoustakis -- Arthur Pomeroy -- Bruce Gibson -- Randall T. Ganiban -- Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen -- Raymond Marks -- Helen Lovatt -- Paolo Asso -- Ben Tipping -- Marco Fucecchi -- Enrico M. Ariemma -- Stephen J. Harrison -- Eleni Manolaraki -- Robert Cowan -- Alison M. Keith -- Neil W. Bernstein -- Frances Muecke -- William J. Dominik -- Augoustakis Antony -- Augoustakis Antony -- Augoustakis Antony -- Augoustakis Antony.

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Only recently have scholars turned their attention to Silius Italicus' Punica , a poem the reputation of which was eclipsed by the emergence of Virgil’s Aeneid as the canonical Latin epos of Augustan Rome. This collection of essays aims at examining the importance of Silius' historical epic in Flavian, Domitianic Rome by offering a detailed overview of the poem's context and intertext, its themes and images, and its reception from antiquity through Renaissance and modern philological criticism. This pioneering volume is the first comprehensive, collaborative study on the longest epic poem in Latin literature.

ISBN: 9789004217119

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789004217119 DOI

Subjects--Personal Names:
Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. Punica.

Subjects--Meeting Names:
Punic War, 2nd (218-201 B.C.)

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Punica (Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius)

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
265 - 30 B.C.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Latin.
War and literature.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C.--Poetry.
Rome (Empire)

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Military history.
Poetry.

LC Class. No.: PA6695 / .B75 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 873/.01