Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 3
Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Series: Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 March 2022
- ISBN 9780198821281
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages412 pages
- Size 240x160x25 mm
- Weight 746 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 black-and-white figures and 4 maps 173
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Short description:
The third book of Silius Italicus' Punica tells the story of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps during the Second Punic War. This new translation is accompanied by a commentary exploring the poem's poetic, philosophical, and historiographic background.
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Hannibal's crossing of the Alps represents a momentous event in the beginning of the Second Punic War (218-202 BCE). The third book of Silius Italicus' Punica reimagines this courageous feat, retracing the journey of Hannibal and his army from the temple of Hercules/Melqart in Gades, across the Pyrenees, the Rhone, and the Alpine peaks into northern Italy. Significant stages in the journey are marked by prophecies: the gods reveal to Hannibal in a dream his future destruction of Italy through a dream with a giant snake; Jupiter unveils to his daughter Venus the future of the Roman empire through the Flavians and Domitian himself; the oracle of Hammon in the African desert prophesies the Roman defeat at Cannae.
The Flavian poet builds his narrative around several key episodes that programmatically set the tone for the whole poem: separation from family, a futuristic distinction between African and Iberian troops in the catalogue, the transgressive nature of Hannibal's struggle with nature and the divine.
The commentary explores each scene in the context of the poetic, philosophical, and historiographic background, with reference also to material culture. The philological and stylistic exegeses aim to reveal the linguistic complexities which colour this fascinating Flavian reconstruction of the topos of 'the epic hero's journey'. The Latin text is presented alongside an English translation and supplemented with maps and images to support understanding the broad historical context of Silius' poem.
The commentary is very good on the many layers of intertextual echoes and references, as well as intratextual connections between Book 3 and the rest of the Punica. It will greatly help both students and scholars alike to appreciate the literary merits of this book.
Table of Contents:
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1. The Political Life and Literary Formation of Silius Italicus
2. Hannibal's Enterprise
2.1. In the Steps of Hercules?
2.2. In the Steps of Aeneas?
3. Hannibal and Imilce
4. Hannibal's Army
4.1. Historiographic Assessment and Poetic Distortion
4.2. Silius' Epic Catalogue of Hannibal's Troops
4.3. Icons of Imperialism in Hannibal's African and Iberian Troop Catalogues
4.4. The Significance of Iberia in the Catalogue
5. Hannibal's Alpine Crossing
5.1. Hannibal's Route and Recent Archaeological Evidence
5.2. Sublimity
5.3. Hannibal and Further Epicurean Postures
6. Divine Prophecy
6.1. Epic Closural Motifs
6.2. Jupiter and Venus
6.3. Hammon's Oracle
7. Language and Style
7.1. Diction and Figures of Speech
7.2. Epic Similes
7.3. Metre and Prosody
8. Text and Transmission
SIGLA, TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND APPARATUS CRITICUS
COMMENTARY
