Silius Italicus and the Tradition of the Roman Historical Epos

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51849-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 458, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

The aim of this volume is to study Silius’ poem as an important step in the development of the Roman historical epic tradition. The Punica is analyzed as transitional segment between the beginnings of Roman literature in the Republican age (Naevius and Ennius) and Claudian’s panegyrical epic in late antiquity, shedding light on its ‘inclusiveness’ and its peculiar, internal dialectic between antiquarian taste and problematic actualization. This is an innovative attempt to connect epic poems and authors belonging to different ages, to frame the development of the literary genre, according to its specific aims and interests throughout the centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Augoustakis, Antony

Fucecchi, Marco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Silius Italicus and the Tradition of the Roman Historical Epos

Antony Augoustakis and Marco Fucecchi

Part 1 The Historical Epic Tradition

Silius Italicus and the Conventions of Historical Epic at Rome

Gesine Manuwald

Silius Italicus between Epos and Historiography

Paolo Esposito

Part 2 Rethinking Roman ‘Mythical History’

Silius Ciceronianus: Regulus as a Reflection of Cicero in Punica 6

Thomas Baier

Silius Italicus and Ovid’s Roman History

Raymond Marks

Claudian’s Silius

Neil W. Bernstein

Part 3 Historical Challenges to ‘National’ Epic

Silius Italicus as an Interpreter of Virgil: Dido and Anna

Sergio Casali

Pompey and Aemilius Paulus, or the Epic Genre between Lucan and Silius Italicus

Nicola Lanzarone

From the Rubicon to the Alps: Re-reading Eumolpus’ Caesar in Light of Silius Italicus’ Hannibal

Stefano Poletti

Part 4 Viewing Roman History (and Literature) from the Inside

Scaevola’s aristeia: A Complementary Reworking of a Historical Source and the Epic Tradition

Filippo Fabbri

Exul in orbe toto, or, How to Map Future Power in Silius Italicus

Clayton A. Schroer

Temples of Song in Silius Italicus

Alison Keith

Romuleos superabit voce nepotes: Remembering Romulus in Silius Italicus

Claire Stocks

Hannibal Redivivus: Fear and Haunting Memory in Silius Italicus

Angeliki N. Roumpou

Index Locorum

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Antony Augoustakis is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Illinois, US. His research interests include Latin imperial epic, Roman comedy and historiography, women in antiquity, classical reception, and gender theory. He is the author of many monographs and edited volumes on various topics in classical literature.

Marco Fucecchi is Associate professor of Latin language and literature at the University of Udine (Italy). His research interests include Latin literature from the Augustan age to the Ist century CE, with particular regard to epic poetry. He is the author of some monographs on Flavian epic poems (Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica and Silius’ Punica) as well as many articles on various topics in Latin literature.

Contributors are Thomas Baier, Neil W. Bernstein, Sergio Casali, Paolo Esposito, Filippo Fabbri, Alison Keith, Nicola Lanzarone, Gesine Manuwald, Raymond Marks, Stefano Poletti, Angeliki N. Roumpou, Clayton Schroer, Claire Stocks.