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OverviewSilius 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’ epic, and in Rome’s literary culture at large. Celebrated and demonised in equal measure, Hannibal became something of an anti-hero for Rome; a man who acquired mythic status, and was condemned by Rome’s authors for his supposed greed and cruelty, yet admired for his military acumen. For the first time this book provides a comprehensive overview of this multi-faceted Hannibal as he appears in the Punica and suggests that Silius’ portrayal of him can be read as the culmination to Rome’s centuries-long engagement with the Carthaginian in its literature. Through detailed consideration of internal focalisation, Silius’ Hannibal is revealed to be a man striving to create an eternal legacy, becoming the Hannibal whom a Roman, and a modern reader, would recognise. The works of Polybius, Livy, Virgil, and the post Virgilian epicists all have a bit-part in this book, which aims to show that Silius Italicus’ Punica is as much an example of how Rome remembered its past, as it is a text striving to join Rome’s epic canon. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Claire Stocks (Dept. of Classics (GLTC), Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands))Publisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.90cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9781781380284ISBN 10: 1781380287 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 April 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Roman Hannibal 1. The Roman Hannibal Defined 2. Before Silius: The Creation of the Roman Hannibal 3. Silius’ Influences 4. Epic Models 5. Silius’ Roman Hannibal 6. Out of the Darkness and into the Light 7. Hannibal’s ‘Decline’ after Cannae; Separating Man from Myth 8. Imitators and Innovators 9. Band-of-Brothers 10. The ‘Lightning Bolts’ (fulmina) of War 11. The Man and his Myth; The Self-defined Roman Hannibal Conclusion: The Crossing of the Worlds: The Move from Internal to External Narrative Bibliography IndexReviewsThe book makes an important contribution to the scholarship on the Punica and deserves a wide readership both among Silianists and among students of Hannibal and his reception. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Author InformationClaire Stocks is Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin Language and Culture at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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