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Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Phoenix. Supplementary volume volume 48
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English