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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: R. Joy Littlewood (Independent scholar, Independent scholar, based in Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.534kg ISBN: 9780198713814ISBN 10: 0198713819 Pages: 346 Publication Date: 23 February 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction I. Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus: Politician and Poet II. From History to Epic: Silius' Adaptation of Livy in Punica 10 III. The Roman Heroes of Cannae and its Aftermath 1. The Poetics of Defeat: L. Aemilius Paulus 2. The Architects of Recovery: P. Cornelius Scipio and Q. Fabius Maximus 3. The Inconstancy of Fortuna: Hannibal after Cannae IV. Silius' Exemplary Epilogue: Empire, Luxus, and Civil War V. Silius' Epic Style 1. The Structure of Punica 10 2. Language and Style 3. Epic Rhetoric, Flavian Style 4. The Similes of Cannae VI. Metre and Prosody VII. Transmission and Reception of the Text Sigla Sili Italici Punicorum Liber Decimus Commentary Endmatter Bibliography Index Verborum General IndexReviewsThere is much more to say about this commentary and to appreciate in it, but I leave it to Littlewood's readers to discover that on their own. I do not doubt that they will be pleased with what they read and will hope that Littlewood considers writing yet another commentary on the Punica. * Raymond Marks, GNOMON * Three volumes have been published - Littlewood on Punica 7 and 10, and Bernstein on 2...As befits members of a publisher's series, these two exemplary volumes share features and a general approach. Both tackle the question of how Silius turns history to epic; both are illuminating on his language, metre and style. * Christina Kraus, Times Literary Supplement * Three volumes have been published - Littlewood on Punica 7 and 10, and Bernstein on 2...As befits members of a publisher's series, these two exemplary volumes share features and a general approach. Both tackle the question of how Silius turns history to epic; both are illuminating on his language, metre and style. * Christina Kraus, Times Literary Supplement * Author InformationDr R. Joy Littlewood is an independent scholar based in Oxford, where she has been a member of the Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity at Corpus Christi College for the last decade. Her early research in the late 1970s led to three pioneering articles on Ovid's Fasti followed by a commentary on Ovid's Fasti, Book 6 (Oxford University Press, 2006), which formed a major part of a doctorate by published work, awarded in 2007. Since then she has worked almost exclusively on Flavian epic, publishing a commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 7 in 2011 with OUP and recently beginning another on Punica 3 alongside Antony Augoustakis. Among various other current projects, she has also undertaken to complete the fourth and final volume of Jim McKeown's monumental commentary on Ovid's Amores. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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