Silius Italicus and the Tradition of the Roman Historical Epos

312 Pages·2022·1.731 MB·English

by  Antony Augoustakis, Marco Fucecchi

SiliusItalicusandtheTraditionoftheRomanHistoricalEpos
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Silius Italicus and the Tradition
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AntonyAugoustakis
MarcoFucecchi
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Contents
Abbreviations vii
NotesonContributors viii
Introduction:SiliusItalicusandtheTraditionoftheRomanHistorical
Epos 1
AntonyAugoustakisandMarcoFucecchi
part 1
TheHistoricalEpicTradition
SiliusItalicusandtheConventionsofHistoricalEpicatRome 19
GesineManuwald
SiliusItalicusbetweenEposandHistoriography 37
PaoloEsposito
part 2
RethinkingRoman‘MythicalHistory’
SiliusCiceronianus:RegulusasaReflectionofCiceroinPunica6 55
ThomasBaier
SiliusItalicusandOvid’sRomanHistory 77
RaymondMarks
Claudian’sSilius 103
NeilW.Bernstein
part 3
HistoricalChallengesto‘National’Epic
SiliusItalicusasanInterpreterofVirgil:Dido(andAnna) 127
SergioCasali
vi contents
PompeyandAemiliusPaulus,ortheEpicGenrebetweenLucanandSilius
Italicus 145
NicolaLanzarone
FromtheRubicontotheAlps:Re-readingEumolpus’CaesarinLightofSilius
Italicus’Hannibal 168
StefanoPoletti
part 4
ViewingRomanHistory(andLiterature)fromtheInside
Scaevola’saristeia:AComplementaryReworkingofaHistoricalSourceand
EpicTradition 197
FilippoFabbri
Exulinorbetoto,or,HowtoMapFuturePowerinSiliusItalicus 210
ClaytonA.Schroer
TemplesofSonginSiliusItalicus 232
AlisonKeith
Romuleossuperabitvocenepotes:RememberingRomulusinSilius
Italicus 249
ClaireStocks
HannibalRedivivus:FearandHauntingMemoryinSiliusItalicus 266
AngelikiN.Roumpou
GeneralIndex 285
IndexLocorum 288
Abbreviations
LatinauthorsandworksfollowthesystemoftheOLD.Greekauthorsandany
gapsaremostlysupplementedfromtheabbreviationsoftheOCD4.Periodicals
havebeenabbreviatedbasedonL’AnnéePhilologique.
ANRW Vogt,J.,Temporini,H.,andHaase,W.,eds.(1972–).AufstiegundNiedergang
derrömischenWelt.Berlin.
Courtney Courtney,E.,ed.(1993).TheFragmentaryLatinPoets.Oxford.
FRHist Cornell,T.J.etal.,eds.(2013).FragmentsoftheRomanHistorians.3vols.
Oxford.
FPL4 Blänsdorf,J.(2011).FragmentapoetarumlatinorumpostW.MoreletBüch-
ner.4thed.Berlin.
Hollis Hollis, A.S., ed. (2007). Fragments of Roman Poetry, c.60b.c.–a.d. 20.
Oxford.
LFUR Lanciani,R.A.(1989).FormaurbisRomae.Rome.
L&S Lewis,C.T.andShort,C.,eds.(1879).ALatinDictionary.Oxford.
OCD Hornblower,S.,Spawforth,A.,andEidinow,E.,eds.(2012).TheOxfordClas-
sicalDictionary.4thed.Oxford.
OLD Glare,P.G.W.,ed.(2012).OxfordLatinDictionary.Oxford.
PLRE Jones, A.H.M., Martindale, J.R., and Morris, J. (1971–1992). The Prosopo-
graphyoftheLaterRomanEmpire.Cambridge.
Skutsch Skutsch,O.,ed.(1985).TheAnnalsofQuintusEnnius.Oxford.
TLL ThesaurusLinguaeLatinae(1900–)Leipzig.
Notes on Contributors
AntonyAugoustakis
is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
(USA).HeistheauthorofSiliusItalicus,Punica3(withR.J.Littlewood;Oxford,
2022), SiliusItalicus’Punica.Rome’sWarwithHannibal (with N.W. Bernstein;
London, 2021), Statius,Thebaid 8 (Oxford, 2016), Motherhood and the Other:
FashioningFemalePowerinFlavianEpic(Oxford,2010)andPlautus’Mercator
(BrynMawr,2009).Hehaseditedmanyvolumes,amongothersFidesinFlavian
Literature(withE.BuckleyandC.Stocks;Toronto2019),CampaniaintheFla-
vianPoeticImagination(withR.J.Littlewood;Oxford,2019),OxfordReadingsin
FlavianEpic(Oxford,2016),FlavianPoetryanditsGreekPast(Brill,2014),Ritual
andReligioninFlavianEpic(Oxford,2013), Brill’sCompaniontoSiliusItalicus
(Brill,2010).HeiscompletingamonographonDeathandRitualinFlavianEpic
andisworkingonacommentaryonthepseudo-VirgilianCiris.
MarcoFucecchi
is Associate Professor in Latin Language and Literature at the University of
Udine(Italy).HespecializesinAugustanandearlyImperialpoetry,especially
epic.HehaspublishedseveralarticlesandchaptersonLucan,Silius,Statius,
andValerius Flaccus, as well as a commentary onValerius’Argonautica 6 in
twovolumes(Pisa,1997and2006).Heiscurrentlyworkingonacommentary
onSilius’Punica17.TogetherwithFedericaBessone,heiseditorofTheLiterary
GenresintheFlavianAge:Canons,Transformations,Reception(Berlin,2017).
ThomasBaier
is Professor in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Würzburg
(Germany). He specializes in Augustan and early Imperial Poetry, especially
epic, as well as in Neolatin literature. He has published a commentary on
Valerius Flaccus’Argonautica 6 (Munich, 2001) and edited a volume on Göt-
terundmenschlicheWillensfreiheit.VonLucanbisSiliusItalicus(Munich,2012).
HeiscurrentlyworkingonSiliusItalicusandonseveralprojectsonGerman
Humanism(JoachimCamerarius,SebastianBrant,JodocusBade).
NeilW.Bernstein
isProfessorintheDepartmentof ClassicsandReligiousStudiesatOhioUni-
versity(Athens,Ohio,USA),wherehehastaughtsince2004.HehasbeenaDis-
tinguishedScholarinResidenceatWesternUniversity(London,ON,Canada),
aNationalHumanitiesCenterFellow(ResearchTrianglePark,NC,USA),and
notes on contributors ix
a Fulbright lecturer (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan). His books
include:SiliusItalicus’Punica.Rome’sWarwithHannibal(withAntonyAugous-
takis;Routledge,2021),commentariesonSiliusItalicus’Punica2(Oxford,2017)
and Punica 9 (Oxford, forthcoming), Seneca. Hercules Furens (Bloomsbury,
2017), Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation (Oxford,
2013), and IntheImageof theAncestors.Narrativesof KinshipinFlavianEpic
(Toronto, 2008). His current project is a translation of Claudian’s complete
worksforRoutledge.
SergioCasali
is Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of
Rome‘TorVergata’(Italy).HeistheauthorofcommentariesonOvid’sHeroides
9(Florence,1995)andVirgil’sAeneid2(Pisa,20192).TogetherwithFabioStok,
heistheeditorofServius.ExegeticalStratificationsandCulturalModels(Brus-
sels,2008).HehaspublishedarticlesonRomanelegyandepic,theexegetical
traditionofVirgil,andthereceptionoftheclassics.Heiscompletingamono-
graphonthe AeneidforCarocci(Rome)andisworkingonacommentaryon
Aeneid4forCambridgeUniversityPress.
PaoloEsposito
is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Salerno
(Italy). His scientific production consists of three volumes (Il racconto della
strage,Naples,1987;Lanarrazioneinverosimile,Naples,1994;M.AnneoLucano,
BellumCivilelibroiv,Naples,2009)andmanyarticles,distributedoveraperiod
ofmorethanfortyyears.HisresearchinterestsfocusonLucan,butalsoCatul-
lus, Cicero, Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca, Persius, Petronius, Calpurnius Siculus,
Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Apuleius, and Claudian. He has edited: Ovidio. Da
Romaall’Europa(Naples,1998);InterpretareLucano(Naples,1999);Lucanoela
tradizionedell’epicalatina(Naples,2004);GliscoliiaLucanoealtrascoliastica
latina (Pisa, 2004); Letture e lettori di Lucano (Pisa, 2015); Seminari lucanei i
(Pisa,2020).
FilippoFabbri
receivedhisPhDinClassicsfromtheUniversityofVenice‘Ca’Foscari’(Italy)
withathesisonSiliusItalicus’Punica9,onwhichheisnowwritingafull-scale
commentary.Duringhisgraduatestudies,hehasparticipatedinseveralcon-
ventions on Flavian Epic, as well as on the tradition and reception of Latin
Literature,andhehasrecentlypublishedanarticleonthesimileinPunica9
358–361inPan.