Author : Antony Augoustakis
Release : 2009-12-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 118/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus by : Antony Augoustakis
Download or read book Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus written by Antony Augoustakis. This book was released on 2009-12-01. 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.