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Brill's companion to Silius Italicus /
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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.
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1 online resource (xxi, 512 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-472) and indexes. :
9789004217119 :
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Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire : generic interactions /
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This book, a sequel to Clio and the Poets (Brill 2002), takes as its point of departure Quintilian's statement that 'historiography is very close to the poets': it examines not only how verse interfaces with historical texts but also how first-century AD Roman historians engage with issues and patterns of thought central to contemporary poetry and with specific poetic texts. Included are substantive discussions of a wide range of authors, notably Lucan, Seneca, Statius, Pliny, Juvenal, Silius Italicus, and Tacitus.
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Papers presented at the "Proxima poetis: Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire" conference, held at the University of Virginia on April 11-12, 2008.
Sequel to: Clio and the poets (Brill, 2002). :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-239) and index. :
9789047430995 :
0169-8958 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.