Research Catalog

Title

Brill's companion to Silius Italicus / edited by Antony Augoustakis.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Supplementary Content

Table of contents

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Additional Authors

Augoustakis, Antony.

Description

xxi, 512 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

[Brill's companions in classical studies], 1872-3357

Uniform Title

Brill's companions in classical studies.

Alternative Title

• Companion to Silius Italicus
• Silius Italicus

Subjects

• Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius > Punica
• Epic poetry, Latin > History and criticism
• Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C > Literature and the war
• Rome > History, Military > 265-30 B.C > Poetry
• Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C > Poetry

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

PA6695

ISBN

• 9789004165700 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004165703 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009044690

OCLC

435879498

Title

Brill's companion to Silius Italicus / edited by Antony Augoustakis.

Imprint

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Series

[Brill's companions in classical studies], 1872-3357

Brill's companions in classical studies.

Bibliography

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

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Table of contents

Added Author

Augoustakis, Antony.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PA6695 .B75 2010