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"This study investigates the role of embedded narratives in Silius Italicus' Punica, an epic from the late first century AD on the Second Punic War (218-202 BC). At first sight, these narratives seem to be loosely 'embedded' in the epic, having their own plot and being situated in a different time or place than the main narrative. A closer look reveals, however, that they foreshadow or recall elements that are found elsewhere in the epic. In this way, they serve as 'mirrors' of the main narrative. The larger part of this book consists of four detailed case studies"--
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"This Narratological Commentary on Silius' Battle of Ticinus lays bare the narrative form of the text by addressing numerous narratological aspects, including plot-development, focalization, space, and intertextuality. The book also focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity with its dynamic processes of (un-)strategic production, perception, and resolution. Ambiguity is a central feature of the Punica because of the epic's constant oscillation between fact and fiction: it treats the changing fortunes of war and the tension between Rome and Carthage, which Silius translates into a moment of poetical equilibrium by his paradoxical problematization of triumph in defeat and defeat through triumph"--
War in literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. - Punica --- Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C. --- Literature and the war --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. --- Classical Studies --- Greek & Latin Literature --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- War in literature. --- Punica (Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius).
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Epic poetry, Latin --- History and criticism. --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius --- Knowledge and learning. --- Carthage (Extinct city) --- Rome --- In literature.
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Latin language --- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius --- Language --- Glossaries, etc.
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