Title A commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 7 : edited with introduction and commentary / by R. Joy Littlewood

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xcix, 276 pages : illustrations, map) Contents Intertextual Allusion in Silius -- Silius' Historical Sources: Livy and Polybius -- Homer -- Ennius -- Virgil. The fall of Troy ; the violation of Italy: Silius' subverted Georgic -- Ovid's Fasti. Faunus, fertility, and the Fabii ; Contrasting theoxenies: Ovid's Hyrieus and Silius' Falernus -- Lucan. Civil war and the divided command ; Personal ambition and the danger of autocracy ; The discourse of luxuria -- Statius -- Valerius Flaccus -- Q. Fabius Maximus, a Flavian and a Stoic hero -- Hannibal, an Oriental Enemy -- The Structure of Punica 7 -- Language and Style -- Epic Rhetoric: The Speeches of Fabius and Hannibal -- Poetic Varietas in Silius' Hand-to-Hand Combat -- Sigla. Sili Italici Punicorum Liber Septimus ; Commentary Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-267) and indexes Subject Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. Punica. Liber 7. Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism. Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C. -- Literature and the war. Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C. -- Poetry. Rome -- History, Military -- 265-30 B.C. -- Poetry. Carthage (Extinct city) -- Poetry. Genre/Form Epic poetry, Latin Poetry. Form Electronic book Author Littlewood, R. Joy, editor Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. Punica. Liber 7. ISBN 9780191819544 (ebk.)

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