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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher:
Once stigmatized as 'the worst epic ever written', Silius Italicus' Punica is now the focus of a resurgence of critical interest and wide-ranging positive reapp
Language: en
Pages: 572
Pages: 572
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book 13 of Silius Italicus' Punica marks an important turning point in this Latin epic poem on the Second Punic War. After twelve books of Carthaginian dominanc
Language: en
Pages: 476
Pages: 476
Type: BOOK - Published: 1934 - Publisher:
Silius (T. Catius Silius Italicus), AD 25-101, was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on
Language: en
Pages: 572
Pages: 572
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book 13 of Silius Italicus' Punica marks an important turning point in this Latin epic poem on the Second Punic War. After twelve books of Carthaginian dominanc
Language: en
Pages: 534
Pages: 534
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-01 - Publisher: BRILL
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