Brill’s companion to Silius Italicus

534 Pages·2010·2.739 MB·English

by  Augoustakis, Antony

Brill’s Companion to Silius Italicus

Brill’s Companion
to Silius Italicus
Edited by
Antony Augoustakis
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2010
On the cover: Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, by Joseph Mallord
William Turner (1775–1851). The Tate Gallery.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brill’s companion to Silius Italicus / edited by Antony Augoustakis.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-16570-0 (hardback : alk. paper)
1. Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. Punica. 2. Epic poetry, Latin—History and criticism.
3. Rome—History, Military—265–30 B.C.—Poetry. 4. Punic War, 2nd, 218–201 B.C.—
Literature and the war. 5. Punic War, 2nd, 218–201 B.C.—Poetry. I. Augoustakis, Antony.
II. Title: Companion to Silius Italicus.
PA6695.B75 2009
873’.01—dc22
2009044690
ISSN 1872-3357
ISBN 978 90 04 16570 0
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(Punica 6.129)

CONTENTS
Foreword and Acknowledgments ............................................... xi
Texts and Abbreviations ............................................................. xiii
Notes on Contributors ................................................................ xvii
A. INTRODUCTION
1. Silius Italicus, A Flavian Poet ................................................ 3
Antony Augoustakis
B. THE PUNICA: CONTEXT AND INTERTEXT
2. To Silius Through Livy and his Predecessors ....................... 27
Arthur Pomeroy
3. Silius Italicus: A Consular Historian? ................................... 47
Bruce Gibson
4. Virgil’s Dido and the Heroism of Hannibal in
Silius’ Punica ........................................................................... 73
Randall T. Ganiban
5. Imitation and the Hero .......................................................... 99
Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen
6. Silius and Lucan .................................................................... 127
Raymond Marks
7. Interplay: Silius and Statius in the Games of Punica 16 ...... 155
Helen Lovatt
viii contents
C. THE PUNICA: THEMES AND IMAGES
a. Silius and the Tradition of Exemplary Heroism
8. Hercules as a Paradigm of Roman Heroism ...................... 179
Paolo Asso
9. Virtue and Narrative in Silius Italicus’ Punica ..................... 193
Ben Tipping
10. The Shield and the Sword: Q. Fabius Maximus and
M. Claudius Marcellus as Models of Heroism in
Silius’ Punica .......................................................................... 219
Marco Fucecchi
11. Fons Cuncti Varro Mali: The Demagogue Varro in
Punica 8–10 ........................................................................... 241
Enrico M. Ariemma
b. Ekphrasis and Imagery
12. Picturing the Future Again: Proleptic Ekphrasis in
Silius’ Punica .......................................................................... 279
Stephen J. Harrison
13. Silius’ Natural History: Tides in the Punica ......................... 293
Eleni Manolaraki
14. Virtual Epic: Counterfactuals, Sideshadowing, and the
Poetics of Contingency in the Punica ................................... 323
Robert Cowan
c. Gender
15. Engendering Orientalism in Silius’ Punica ........................... 355
Alison M. Keith
contents ix
d. Epic and Society
16. Family and State in the Punica ............................................. 377
Neil W. Bernstein
D. RECEPTION AND CRITICISM
17. Silius Italicus in the Italian Renaissance .............................. 401
Frances Muecke
18. The Reception of Silius Italicus in Modern Scholarship ... 425
William J. Dominik
Bibliography ................................................................................ 449
General Index ............................................................................. 473
Index Locorum I ........................................................................ 487
Index Locorum II ....................................................................... 499