Brill's companion to Silius Italicus / / edited by Antony Augoustakis.

• TeilnehmendeR: Augoustakis, Antony.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (534 pages)
• Other title: Companion to Silius Italicus; Preliminary material /; Silius Italicus, A Flavian Poet /; To Silius Through Livy and his Predecessors /; Silius Italicus: A Consular Historian? /; Virgil’s Dido and the Heroism of Hannibal in Silius’ Pvnica /; Imitation and the Hero /; Silius and Lucan /; Interplay: Silius and Statius in the Games of Pvnica 16 /; Hercules as a Paradigm of Roman Heroism /; Virtue and Narrative in Silius Italicus’ Pvnica /; The Shield and the Sword: Q. Fabius Maximus and M. Claudius Marcellus as Models of Heroism in Silius’ Pvnica /; Fons Cuncti Varro Mali: The Demagogue Varro in Pvnica 8–10 /; Picturing the Future Again: Proleptic Ekphrasis in Silius’ Pvnica /; Silius’ Natural History: Tides in the Pvnica /; Virtual Epic: Counterfactuals, Sideshadowing, and the Poetics of Contingency in the Pvnica /; Engendering Orientalism in Silius’ Pvnica /; Family and State in the Pvnica /; Silius Italicus in the Italian Renaissance /; The Reception of Silius Italicus in Modern Scholarship /; Bibliography /; General Index /; Index Locorum I /; Index Locorum II /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-472) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004217118
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Antony Augoustakis.

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.