Brill’s Companion To Silius Italicus

Brill’s Companion to Silius Italicus Brill’s Companion to Silius Italicus Edited by Antony Augoustakis LEIDEN • BOSTON 2010 On the cover: Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851). The Tate Gallery. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brill’s companion to Silius Italicus / edited by Antony Augoustakis. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-16570-0 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. Punica. 2. Epic poetry, Latin—History and criticism. 3. Rome—History, Military—265–30 B.C.—Poetry. 4. Punic War, 2nd, 218–201 B.C.— Literature and the war. 5. Punic War, 2nd, 218–201 B.C.—Poetry. I. Augoustakis, Antony. II. Title: Companion to Silius Italicus. PA6695.B75 2009 873’.01—dc22 2009044690 ISSN 1872-3357 ISBN 978 90 04 16570 0 Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands To Kostas and Eleni accessi comes, atque omnes sociauimus annos (Punica 6.129) CONTENTS Foreword and Acknowledgments ............................................... Texts and Abbreviations ............................................................. Notes on Contributors ................................................................ xi xiii xvii A. INTRODUCTION 1. Silius Italicus, A Flavian Poet ................................................ Antony Augoustakis 3 B. THE PUNICA: CONTEXT AND INTERTEXT 2. To Silius Through Livy and his Predecessors ....................... Arthur Pomeroy 27 3. Silius Italicus: A Consular Historian? ................................... Bruce Gibson 47 4. Virgil’s Dido and the Heroism of Hannibal in Silius’ Punica ........................................................................... Randall T. Ganiban 73 5. Imitation and the Hero .......................................................... Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen 99 6. Silius and Lucan .................................................................... Raymond Marks 127 7. Interplay: Silius and Statius in the Games of Punica 16 ...... Helen Lovatt 155 viii contents C. THE PUNICA: THEMES AND IMAGES a. Silius and the Tradition of Exemplary Heroism 8. Hercules as a Paradigm of Roman Heroism ...................... Paolo Asso 179 9. Virtue and Narrative in Silius Italicus’ Punica ..................... Ben Tipping 193 10. The Shield and the Sword: Q. Fabius Maximus and M. Claudius Marcellus as Models of Heroism in Silius’ Punica .......................................................................... Marco Fucecchi 11. Fons Cuncti Varro Mali: The Demagogue Varro in Punica 8–10 .......................................