{"product_id":"the-roman-hannibal-remembering-the-enemy-in-silius-italicus-punica-9781781380284","title":"The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSilius Italicus’ Punica, the longest surviving epic in Latin literature, has seen a resurgence of interest among scholars in recent years. A celebration of Rome’s triumph over Hannibal and Carthage during the second Punic war, Silius’ poem presents a plethora of familiar names to its readers: Fabius Maximus, Claudius Marcellus, Scipio Africanus and, of course, Rome’s ‘ultimate enemy’ – Hannibal. Where most recent scholarship on the Punica has focused its attention of the problematic portrayal of Scipio Africanus as a hero for Rome, this book shifts the focus to Carthage and offers a new reading of Hannibal’s place in Silius’ epic, and in Rome’s literary culture at large. Celebrated and demonised in equal measure, Hannibal became something of an anti-hero for Rome; a man who acquired mythic status, and was condemned by Rome’s authors for his supposed greed and cruelty, yet admired for his military acumen. For the first time this book provides a comprehensive overview of this multi-faceted Hannibal as he appears in the Punica and suggests that Silius’ portrayal of him can be read as the culmination to Rome’s centuries-long engagement with the Carthaginian in its literature. Through detailed consideration of internal focalisation, Silius’ Hannibal is revealed to be a man striving to create an eternal legacy, becoming the Hannibal whom a Roman, and a modern reader, would recognise. The works of Polybius, Livy, Virgil, and the post Virgilian epicists all have a bit-part in this book, which aims to show that Silius Italicus’ Punica is as much an example of how Rome remembered its past, as it is a text striving to join Rome’s epic canon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book offers many stimulating discussions of the multi-faceted \u003ci\u003ePunica\u003c\/i\u003e and paves the way for monographs on some of the other figures of Silius' epic world (Fabius, Paulus, Marcellus).'\u003cbr\u003e Anthony Augoustakis, \u003ci\u003eClassical Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: The Roman Hannibal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. The Roman Hannibal Defined\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Before Silius: The Creation of the Roman Hannibal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Silius’ Influences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Epic Models\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Silius’ Roman Hannibal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Out of the Darkness and into the Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Hannibal’s ‘Decline’ after Cannae; Separating Man from Myth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Imitators and Innovators\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Band-of-Brothers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. The ‘Lightning Bolts’ (fulmina) of War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. The Man and his Myth; The Self-defined Roman Hannibal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: The Crossing of the Worlds: The Move from Internal to External Narrative\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042204549463,"sku":"9781781380284","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781781380284.jpg?v=1750953431","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-roman-hannibal-remembering-the-enemy-in-silius-italicus-punica-9781781380284","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}