Neil W. Bernstein (Professor in the Department of Classics and Reli

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9

Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Book 9 of Silius Italicus' first-century Latin epic poem Punica begins the narrative of the Battle of Cannae (August 216 BC). This new translation with critical apparatus is accompanied by detailed commentary notes and an Introduction providing further context and background.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780198838166
• ISBN-10: 0198838166
• Artikelnr.: 66146021

Autorenporträt

Neil W. Bernstein is Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at Ohio University. His recent books include Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation (OUP 2013), Silius Italicus: Punica 2. Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (OUP 2017), Seneca: Hercules Furens (Bloomsbury 2017), and Silius Italicus' Punica: Rome's War with Hannibal (with Antony Augoustakis; Routledge 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
1: Silius Italicus, consular and poet
2: The historiographical and rhetorical tradition of Cannae
3: The episodes of Punica 9
4: Epic tradition: the inter- and intra-textuality of Cannae
5: Language and style
6: Text and translation
TEXT AND TRANSLATION
COMMENTARY
Bibliography
Indexes