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Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9

Author : Neil W. Bernstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198838166
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9 written by Neil W. Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 9 of Silius Italicus' first-century Latin epic poem Punica begins the narrative of the Battle of Cannae (August 216 BC). This book is an integral part of the epic's three-book movement that narrates one of the largest battles in Roman history. It opens with the dispute between the consuls Paulus and Varro over giving battle, in the face of hostile omens and Hannibal's record of successful combat. On the eve of the battle, the Roman soldier Solymus accidentally kills his father Satricus, thereby presenting an omen of disaster for the Roman army. After Hannibal and Varro encourage their troops, the initial phase of the battle commences. The gods descend to the battlefield, and Mars and Minerva fight the sole full-scale theomachy in Latin epic. Aeolus summons the Vulturnus wind at Juno's request to devastate the Roman ranks. After the gods have departed, Hannibal's elephant troops advance and scatter the Roman forces. The book ends by recapitulating the opening episode: Varro admits his mistake in giving battle and flees the battlefield. This volume is the first full-scale commentary in English devoted exclusively to Punica 9. It features the Latin text with a critical apparatus and a parallel English translation. Detailed commentary notes provide information on literary style, use of language, poetic intertexts, and scholarly interpretation. The Introduction offers further context and background, including sections on Silius Italicus and his era, the historiographic and rhetorical traditions that he adopted, the inter- and intra-textuality of the Cannae episode, and the book's use of diction and metre.

A Commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 10

Author : R. Joy Littlewood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198713814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 10 written by R. Joy Littlewood and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Cannae represents a conflict of mighty powers and a crushing defeat, notoriously the worst in Rome's history. Dawn on August 2, 216 BC, saw the armies of Rome and Carthage clash in what the participants hoped would be the decisive engagement for supremacy in Mediterranean trade and empire. Punica 10 opens with the final phase of the battle, when there lingered no hope of victory in the Roman ranks. The military narrative moves mercilessly through the aristeia and death of the heroic consul, Paulus, to the ghastly tableau of Roman defeat. But the mystique of Cannae lies in a paradox: that the army ignominiously vanquished emerges the ultimate victor. Although night falls on a battlefield littered with the wreckage of Rome's military might and a triumphant victor still unsated with Roman blood, the second half of the book unfolds a sequence of unexpected twists in the action which destabilize Hannibal's confidence and initiate acts of heroism inspiring fresh resolution in the traumatized Romans. In one of Silius' finest books, the climactic sweep of his epic is enriched by intertextual allusions to Virgil's great narrative of epic closure: Aeneid 12. In contrast to her earlier commentary on Punica 7, which explores intertexts associated with Hannibal's desecration of rural Italy, R. Joy Littlewood's new commentary focuses on Silius' military narrative; the poetics of defeat with its imagery of shipwreck and the spectacle of death in the Roman amphitheatre. It aims to show how a poet with long experience in politics as a senior senator in the first century CE interpreted Rome's historic disaster and eventual triumph in the light of his own experiences of civil war and a swift succession of Roman emperors. Presented here alongside the Latin text and translation, and supplemented with plans of the battlefield, this commentary offers both philological and stylistic exegesis alongside historical analysis and up to date literary criticism. It is accompanied by an extended introduction including analyses of Silius' adaptation of Livy's Cannae narrative, of the contrasting moral strengths of his three Roman heroes, and of the ideas contained in the intertextually rich, exemplary epigram which closes Book 10.

A Commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 7

Author : R. Joy Littlewood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191819544
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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A Commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 7

Author : R. Joy Littlewood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199570935
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 7 written by R. Joy Littlewood and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once stigmatized as 'the worst epic ever written', Silius Italicus' Punica is now the focus of a resurgence of critical interest and wide-ranging positive reappraisal. In a climate of flourishing interest in Flavian literary culture, Punica 7 now joins the rising number of commentaries on Flavian epic. While offering an insightful analysis of Silius' complex intertextuality, Littlewood demonstrates how his republican theme bears the imprint of Rome's more recent experience of civil conflict and the military and civic ethos of the Flavians, and illuminates the poet's engagement with luxuria, exploring tensions within the literary and political culture of the Age of Domitian. The narrative of Punica 7 is a tale of treachery and perseverance, of a battle of wills and the desecration of the Italian land, which is poetically interpreted through intertextual allusion to Virgil's Georgics. In the centre of the book Hannibal commits the anti-pastoral atrocity of igniting 2000 Roman ploughing oxen to simulate a nocturnal raid based on Homer's Doloneia. The burning flesh of this subverted sacrifice, interwoven with imagery evoking bacchanal madness and the rising smoke of the sack of Troy, sets the stage for a dramatic finale in which Rome's traditional virtues triumph over oriental guile and internal discord. This penetrating study explores how the historical narrative coalesces with mythology, the proto-history of Rome, and the genealogy of its protagonists. Littlewood's volume is the first full English commentary on a book of Silius Italicus' Punica and is supported by an extended introduction covering Silius' life, his literary models, the characterization of his protagonists, Fabius and Hannibal, his epic style, and the transmission of the text.

Commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 10

Author : R. Joy Littlewood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191864452
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 10 written by R. Joy Littlewood and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Littlewood's volume is the first full English commentary, supported by a comprehensive introduction and Latin text with full apparatus criticus, on Silius Italicus' 'Punica'. It reflects the current resurgence of critical interest in Silius' poetry, and aims to explore his engagement with historical and political issues.

Ambiguities of War: A Narratological Commentary on Silius Italicus’ Battle of Ticinus (Sil. 4.1-479)

Author : Elisabeth Schedel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004522670
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguities of War: A Narratological Commentary on Silius Italicus’ Battle of Ticinus (Sil. 4.1-479) written by Elisabeth Schedel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book lays bare the narrative form of Silius’ text. It focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity due to the epic’s constant oscillation between fact and fiction, highlighting Roman triumph in defeat and defeat through triumph.

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13

Author : C. M. van der Keur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192884891
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13 written by C. M. van der Keur and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 13 of Silius Italicus' Punica marks an important turning point in this Latin epic poem on the Second Punic War. After twelve books of Carthaginian dominance, Rome begins to gain the upper hand. Following his failed attempt to attack Rome, Hannibal is devastated to learn that his role model Diomedes had provided Aeneas' heirs with the protective talisman of the Palladium, and leaves for southern Italy. This allows the Romans to finish their siege of Capua, Hannibal's rich ally in Italy, in punishment for its treachery; Capua's fall marks the beginning of the end for Carthage. The book's central theme of the anticipation of Rome's destined victory is continued in the third and longest part of the book, where young Scipio, the future Africanus, ventures into the underworld, and into the depths of the rich poetic past, to be inspired by the shades he encounters and to define his own position as an epic hero. This volume presents the first full-scale literary and linguistic analysis of the entirety of Punica 13, including the famous Nekyia episode. The notes, which cover matters of syntax, textual criticism, style, a selection of realia, and important verbal and conceptual parallels, are complemented with extended introductory paragraphs for each scene focusing on poetic models, themes, intertextual interpretation, and narrative structure. C. M. van der Keur's General Introduction discusses the book against its Flavian background, its position within the epic and within the literary tradition, and Silius' use of metre and verse composition. The Latin text is presented alongside an English translation.

Commentary on Silius Italicus

Author : Domizio Calderino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Commentary on Silius Italicus written by Domizio Calderino and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9

Author : Neil W. Bernstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192694227
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9 written by Neil W. Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 9 of Silius Italicus' first-century Latin epic poem Punica begins the narrative of the Battle of Cannae (August 216 BC). This book is an integral part of the epic's three-book movement that narrates one of the largest battles in Roman history. It opens with the dispute between the consuls Paulus and Varro over giving battle, in the face of hostile omens and Hannibal's record of successful combat. On the eve of the battle, the Roman soldier Solymus accidentally kills his father Satricus, thereby presenting an omen of disaster for the Roman army. After Hannibal and Varro encourage their troops, the initial phase of the battle commences. The gods descend to the battlefield, and Mars and Minerva fight the sole full-scale theomachy in Latin epic. Aeolus summons the Vulturnus wind at Juno's request to devastate the Roman ranks. After the gods have departed, Hannibal's elephant troops advance and scatter the Roman forces. The book ends by recapitulating the opening episode: Varro admits his mistake in giving battle and flees the battlefield. This volume is the first full-scale commentary in English devoted exclusively to Punica 9. It features the Latin text with a critical apparatus and a parallel English translation. Detailed commentary notes provide information on literary style, use of language, poetic intertexts, and scholarly interpretation. The Introduction offers further context and background, including sections on Silius Italicus and his era, the historiographic and rhetorical traditions that he adopted, the inter- and intra-textuality of the Cannae episode, and the book's use of diction and metre.

Silius Italicus' Punica

Author : Tiberius Catius Silius Italicus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367699895
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Silius Italicus' Punica written by Tiberius Catius Silius Italicus and published by . This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers, in one volume, a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus' Punica. Composed in the first century CE, this epic tells the story of the Second Punic War between Rome and Hannibal's Carthage (218-202 BCE). It is not only a crucial text for students of Flavian literature, but also an important source for anyone studying early Imperial perspectives on the Roman Republic. The translation is clear and comprehensible, while also offering an accurate representation of the Latin text. Augmented by a scholarly introduction, extensive notes, glossary and a comprehensive bibliography (included in the introduction), this volume makes the text accessible and relevant for students and scholars alike.

Silius Italicus, Punica 2

Author : Neil W. Bernstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198821281
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Silius Italicus, Punica 2 written by Neil W. Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book of Silius Italicus' Punica tells the story of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps during the Second Punic War. This new translation is accompanied by a commentary exploring the poem's poetic, philosophical, and historiographic background.

A Commentary on Silius Italicus, Punica 13, 381-895, with Special Reference to Language, Metre and Rhetorical Tropes

Author : Thomas Cyril Bennett
Publisher : 1978.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on Silius Italicus, Punica 13, 381-895, with Special Reference to Language, Metre and Rhetorical Tropes written by Thomas Cyril Bennett and published by 1978.. This book was released on 1978 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Punica, with English translation by J.D. Duff

Author : Tiberius Catius Silius Italicus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punica, with English translation by J.D. Duff written by Tiberius Catius Silius Italicus and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Commentary on Silius Italicus

Author : D. C. Feeney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on Silius Italicus written by D. C. Feeney and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Commentary on Silius Italicus

Author : D. C. Feeney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
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Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus

Author : Antony Augoustakis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004217118
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus written by Antony Augoustakis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only recently have scholars turned their attention to Silius Italicus' Punica, a poem the reputation of which was eclipsed by the emergence of Virgil’s Aeneid as the canonical Latin epos of Augustan Rome. This collection of essays aims at examining the importance of Silius' historical epic in Flavian, Domitianic Rome by offering a detailed overview of the poem's context and intertext, its themes and images, and its reception from antiquity through Renaissance and modern philological criticism. This pioneering volume is the first comprehensive, collaborative study on the longest epic poem in Latin literature.

Poetics of the First Punic War

Author : Thomas Biggs
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047213213X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Poetics of the First Punic War written by Thomas Biggs and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetics of the First Punic War investigates the literary afterlives of Rome’s first conflict with Carthage. From its original role in the Middle Republic as the narrative proving ground for epic’s development out of verse historiography, to its striking cultural reuse during the Augustan and Flavian periods, the First Punic War (264–241 BCE) holds an underappreciated place in the history of Latin literature. Because of the serendipitous meeting of historical content and poetic form in the third century BCE, a textualized First Punic War went on to shape the Latin language and its literary genres, the practices and politics of remembering war, popular visions of Rome as a cultural capital, and numerous influential conceptions of Punic North Africa. Poetics of the First Punic War combines innovative theoretical approaches with advances in the philological analysis of Latin literature to reassess the various “texts” of the First Punic War, including those composed by Vergil, Propertius, Horace, and Silius Italicus. This book also contains sustained treatment of Naevius’ fragmentary Bellum Punicum (Punic War) and Livius Andronicus’ Odusia (Odyssey), some of the earliest works of Latin poetry. As the tradition’s primary Roman topic, the First Punic War is forever bound to these poems, which played a decisive role in transmitting an epic view of history.