Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 3

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 3

Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Augoustakis, Antony; Littlewood, R. Joy

Oxford University Press

03/2022

412

Dura

Inglês

9780198821281

15 a 20 dias

746

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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
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