Brill's companion to Silius Italicus
By: edited by Antony Augoustakis.
Contributors: Augoustakis, Antony.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9789004165700
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. -- Poetry; Rome -- History, Military -- 265-30 B.C. -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Other titles: Companion to Silius Italicus
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-472) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Silius Italicus, a Flavian poet / Antony Augoustakis; title: To Silius through Livy and his predecessors / Arthur Pomeroy; title: Silius Italicus : a consular historian? / Bruce Gibson; title: Virgil's Dido and the heroism of Hannibal in Silius' Punica / Randall T. Ganiban; title: Imitation and the hero / Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen; title: Silius and Lucan / Raymond Marks; title: Interplay : Silius and Statius in the games of Punica 16 / Helen Lovatt; title: Silius and the tradition of exemplary heroism; title: Hercules as a paradigm of Roman heroism / Paolo Asso; title: Virtue and narrative in Silius Italicus' Punica / Ben Tipping; title: The shield and the sword : Q. Fabius Maximus and M. Claudius Marcellus as models of heroism in Silius' Punica / Marco Fucecchi; title: Fons Cuncti Varro Mali : the demagogue Varro in Punica 8-10 / Enrico M. Ariemma; title: Ekphrasis and imagery; title: Picturing the future again : proleptic ekphrasis in Silius' Punica / Stephen J. Harrison; title: Silius' natural history : tides in the Punica / Eleni Manolaraki; title: Virtual epic : counterfactuals, sideshadowing, and the poetics of contingency in the Punica / Robert Cowan; title: Gender; title: Engendering orientalism in Silius' Punica / Alison M. Keith; title: Epic and society; title: Family and state in the Punica / Neil W. Bernstein; title: Silius Italicus in the Italian Renaissance / Frances Muecke; title: The reception of Silius Italicus in modern scholarship / William J. Dominik.