Silius Italicus, Punica 2

Zusatztext Three volumes have been published - Littlewood on Punica 7 and 10, and Bernstein on 2...As befits members of a publisher's series, these two exemplary volumes share features and a general approach. Both tackle the question of how Silius turns history to epic; both are illuminating on his language, metre and style. Informationen zum Autor Neil W. Bernstein is Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University. His other books include Seneca: Hercules Furens (Bloomsbury, 2017), Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation (Oxford University Press, 2013), and In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic (University of Toronto Press, 2008). Klappentext The first full-length scholarly commentary in any language on Book 2 of Silius Italicus' Punica, comprising an extensive introduction, the full Latin text, and an English translation, apparatus criticus, and detailed line-by-line commentary. Zusammenfassung The first full-length scholarly commentary in any language on Book 2 of Silius Italicus' Punica, comprising an extensive introduction, the full Latin text, and an English translation, apparatus criticus, and detailed line-by-line commentary.

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• Authors: Neil W. Bernstein
• Assisted by: Neil W. Bernstein (Editor), Neil W. (Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions Bernstein (Editor), Bernstein Neil W. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2017
• EAN: 9780198747864
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874786-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory