| Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus Contributor(s): Augoustakis, Antony (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004165703 ISBN-13: 9789004165700 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $244.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General - History | Civilization - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: 873.01 |
| LCCN: 2009044690 |
| Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.4" W x 9.5" (2.16 lbs) 536 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Only recently have scholars turned their attention to Silius Italicus' Punica, a poem the reputation of which was eclipsed by the emergence of Virgil's Aeneid as the canonical Latin epos of Augustan Rome. This collection of essays aims at examining the importance of Silius' historical epic in Flavian, Domitianic Rome by offering a detailed overview of the poem's context and intertext, its themes and images, and its reception from antiquity through Renaissance and modern philological criticism. This pioneering volume is the first comprehensive, collaborative study on the longest epic poem in Latin literature. |