Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9 - Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Additional text

Bernstein has offered us a commentary that is tremendously useful, erudite, and accessible-not to mention timely... The book is handsomely produced.

Product details

• Authors: Neil W. Bernstein, Neil W. (Professor in the Department of Bernstein, Bernstein Neil W.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9780198838166
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883816-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient, classical and medieval texts