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The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus' Punica
Claire Stocks
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Description for The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus' Punica
Hardcover. This book offers a new reading of Hannibal in Silius Italicus' Punica and provides fresh insight into how the Romans remembered their past. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 574.
Silius Italicus’ Punica, the longest surviving epic in Latin literature, has seen a resurgence of interest among scholars in recent years. A celebration of Rome’s triumph over Hannibal and Carthage during the second Punic war, Silius’ poem presents a plethora of familiar names to its readers: Fabius Maximus, Claudius Marcellus, Scipio Africanus and, of course, Rome’s ‘ultimate enemy’ – Hannibal. Where most recent scholarship on the Punica has focused its attention of the problematic portrayal of Scipio Africanus as a hero for Rome, this book shifts the focus to Carthage and offers a new reading of Hannibal’s place in Silius’ ... Read more
Silius Italicus’ Punica, the longest surviving epic in Latin literature, has seen a resurgence of interest among scholars in recent years. A celebration of Rome’s triumph over Hannibal and Carthage during the second Punic war, Silius’ poem presents a plethora of familiar names to its readers: Fabius Maximus, Claudius Marcellus, Scipio Africanus and, of course, Rome’s ‘ultimate enemy’ – Hannibal. Where most recent scholarship on the Punica has focused its attention of the problematic portrayal of Scipio Africanus as a hero for Rome, this book shifts the focus to Carthage and offers a new reading of Hannibal’s place in Silius’ ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781380284
SKU
V9781781380284
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99-50
About Claire Stocks
Claire Stocks is Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin Language and Culture at Radboud University, Nijmegen.
Reviews for The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus' Punica
'This book offers many stimulating discussions of the multi-faceted Punica and paves the way for monographs on some of the other figures of Silius' epic world (Fabius, Paulus, Marcellus).' Anthony Augoustakis, Classical Journal