Table of Contents: A commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 7 :

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:	Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. Epic poetry, Latin > History and criticism. Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C. > Literature and the war. Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C. Rome > History, Military > 265-30 B.C.
Online Access:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1307/2011923762-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1307/2011923762-t.html

Table of 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.