Foreword and Acknowledgments Texts and Abbreviations Notes on Contributors A. INTRODUCTION 1. Silius Italicus, A Flavian Poet, Antony Augoustakis B. THE PUNICA: CONTEXT AND INTERTEXT 2. To Silius Through Livy and his Predecessors, Arthur Pomeroy 3. Silius Italicus: A Consular Historian? Bruce Gibson 4. Virgil's Dido and the Heroism of Hannibal in Silius' Punica, Randall T. Ganiban 5. Imitation and the Hero, Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen 6. Silius and Lucan, Raymond Marks 7. Interplay: Silius and Statius in the Games of Punica 16, Helen Lovatt C. THE PUNICA: THEMES AND IMAGES a. Silius and the Tradition of Exemplary Heroism 8. Hercules as a Paradigm of Roman Heroism, Paolo Asso 9. Virtue and Narrative in Silius Italicus' Punica, Ben Tipping 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, Enrico M. Ariemma b. Ekphrasis and Imagery 12. Picturing the Future Again: Proleptic Ekphrasis in Silius' Punica , Stephen J. Harrison 13. Silius' Natural History: Tides in the Punica , Eleni Manolaraki 14. Virtual Epic: Counterfactuals, Sideshadowing, and the Poetics of Contingency in the Punica , Robert Cowan c. Gender 15. Engendering Orientalism in Silius' Punica , Alison M. Keith d. Epic and Society 16. Family and State in the Punica , Neil W. Bernstein D. RECEPTION AND CRITICISM 17. Silius Italicus in the Italian Renaissance, Frances Muecke 18. The Reception of Silius Italicus in Modern Scholarship, William J. Dominik Bibliography General Index Index Locorum I Index Locorum II
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