A commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 7 : edited with introduction and commentary /

Main Author: Littlewood, R. Joy.
Other Authors: Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius.
Format: Book
Language:English
Latin
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
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300 |a xcix, 276 p. :  |b ill., map ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-267) and indexes. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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