Exemplary epic : Silius Italicus' Punica /

The force of example was a distinctive determiner of Roman identity. In this study of the representation of certain central characters in Silius Italicus' 'Punica', Ben Tipping considers the virtues & vices they embody, their status as exemplars, & the process by which Silius...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tipping, Ben
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:	Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:	Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. > Punica. Punica (Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius) Punica. Ethics in literature. Virtues in literature. Vice in literature. Ethics > Rome. Example > History. Virtue in literature. Morale dans la littérature. Vertus dans la littérature. Vice dans la littérature. Morale > Rome. Exemple > Histoire. TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Exordium. Epic ; Example
Perspective and paradigm. Myth and history ; Virtue and vice ; Civil wars and Caesars ; Scipio and Domitian
Hannibal. Worse than Punic ; Improba virtus ; Various villainy ; Intertextual instability ; Better than Roman
Fabius Maximus Cunctator. Great restraint ; One and many ; Republican monarchy ; Delaying dynamism
Scipio Africanus Maior. Dual citizenship ; Superheroism ; Espirit de corps ; Immortal yearnings ; Power and glory ; Triumph and after
Upending. Competition ; Conclusion.