Brill’s companion to Silius Italicus

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This volume offers a detailed overview of Silius Italicus’ Punica, by placing the poem within its literary and socio-historical context and by documenting its reception in the humanistic tradition of the Renaissance and subsequent centuries. Foreword and Acknowledgments Texts and Abbreviations Notes on ContributorsA. INTRODUCTION1. Silius Italicus, A Flavian Poet, Antony AugoustakisB. THE PUNICA: CONTEXT AND INTERTEXT2. To Silius Through Livy and his Predecessors, Arthur Pomeroy3. Silius Italicus: A Consular Historian? Bruce Gibson4. Virgil's Dido and the Heroism of Hannibal in Silius' Punica, Randall T. Ganiban5. Imitation and the Hero, Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen6. Silius and Lucan, Raymond Marks7. Interplay: Silius and Statius in the Games of Punica 16, Helen LovattC. THE PUNICA: THEMES AND IMAGESa. Silius and the Tradition of Exemplary Heroism8. Hercules as a Paradigm of Roman Heroism, Paolo Asso9. Virtue and Narrative in Silius Italicus' Punica, Ben Tipping10. The Shield and the Sword: Q. Fabius Maximus and M. Claudius Marcellus as Models of Heroism inSilius' Punica , Marco Fucecchi11. Fons Cuncti Varro Mali: The Demagogue Varro in Punica 8-10, Enrico M. Ariemmab. Ekphrasis and Imagery12. Picturing the Future Again: Proleptic Ekphrasis in Silius' Punica , Stephen J. Harrison13. Silius' Natural History: Tides in the Punica , Eleni Manolaraki14. Virtual Epic: Counterfactuals, Sideshadowing, and the Poetics of Contingency in the Punica , Robert Cowanc. Gender15. Engendering Orientalism in Silius' Punica , Alison M. Keithd. Epic and Society16. Family and State in the Punica , Neil W. BernsteinD. RECEPTION AND CRITICISM17. Silius Italicus in the Italian Renaissance, Frances Muecke18. The Reception of Silius Italicus in Modern Scholarship, William J. DominikBibliography General IndexIndex Locorum IIndex Locorum II