TY - BOOK ID - 101479612 TI - Silius Italicus and the tradition of the Roman historical epos AU - Augoustakis, Antony AU - Fucecchi, Marco PY - 2022 SN - 9789004518490 9789004518513 9004518495 9004518517 PB - Boston: Leiden: Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Epic poetry, Latin KW - Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C. KW - History in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Literature and the war. KW - Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. KW - Latin literature KW - Rome Empire KW - History and criticism KW - Roman literature KW - Classical literature KW - Classical philology KW - Latin philology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101479612 AB - "The aim of this volume is to study Silius' poem as an important step in the development of the Roman historical epic tradition. The Punica is analyzed as transitional segment between the beginnings of Roman literature in the Republican age (Naevius and Ennius) and Claudian's panegyrical epic in late antiquity, shedding light on its 'inclusiveness' and its peculiar, internal dialectic between antiquarian taste and problematic actualization. This is an innovative attempt to connect epic poems and authors belonging to different ages, to frame the development of the literary genre, according to its specific aims and interests throughout the centuries"-- ER -