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Brill's companion to Silius Italicus / edited by Antony Augoustakis.
LIBRA PA6695 .B75 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. Punica.
- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius.
- Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Latin.
- Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C--Poetry.
- Rome.
- Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C--Literature and the war.
- Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C.
- Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 512 pages ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Companion to Silius Italicus
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- Contents:
- Silius Italicus, a Flavian poet / Antony Augoustakis
- To Silius through Livy and his predecessors / Arthur Pomeroy
- Silius Italicus : a consular historian? / Bruce Gibson
- Virgil's Dido and the heroism of Hannibal in Silius' Punica / Randall T. Ganiban
- Imitation and the hero / Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen
- Silius and Lucan / Raymond Marks
- Interplay : Silius and Statius in the games of Punica 16 / Helen Lovatt
- Silius and the tradition of exemplary heroism
- Hercules as a paradigm of Roman heroism / Paolo Asso
- Virtue and narrative in Silius Italicus' Punica / Ben Tipping
- The shield and the sword : Q. Fabius Maximus and M. Claudius Marcellus as models of heroism in Silius' Punica / Marco Fucecchi
- Fons Cuncti Varro Mali : the demagogue Varro in Punica 8-10 / Enrico M. Ariemma
- Ekphrasis and imagery
- Picturing the future again : proleptic ekphrasis in Silius' Punica / Stephen J. Harrison
- Silius' natural history : tides in the Punica / Eleni Manolaraki
- Virtual epic : counterfactuals, sideshadowing, and the poetics of contingency in the Punica / Robert Cowan
- Gender
- Engendering orientalism in Silius' Punica / Alison M. Keith
- Epic and society
- Family and state in the Punica / Neil W. Bernstein
- Silius Italicus in the Italian Renaissance / Frances Muecke
- The reception of Silius Italicus in modern scholarship / William J. Dominik.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789004165700
- 9004165703
- OCLC:
- 435879498
- Publisher Number:
- 99942729202
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