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Page 17
... clearly defined . Silius uses the meeting of Anna and Hannibal , not just in order to affirm , in a retro- spective view of the origins of the two peoples ( that is , on the Aeneid ) , the initial causes of the war , but also to take up ...
... clearly defined . Silius uses the meeting of Anna and Hannibal , not just in order to affirm , in a retro- spective view of the origins of the two peoples ( that is , on the Aeneid ) , the initial causes of the war , but also to take up ...
Page 46
... clearly in the participle comitatus , which has the same metrical placing in both authors : what really counts is the fact that , as the commentator of the Fasti remarks , " für den Vers war Vergil das Vorbild : Aen . I 312 ipse uno ...
... clearly in the participle comitatus , which has the same metrical placing in both authors : what really counts is the fact that , as the commentator of the Fasti remarks , " für den Vers war Vergil das Vorbild : Aen . I 312 ipse uno ...
Page 69
... clearly imaginable consequences for the verisimilitude and artistic quality of the text , since the leader of the Italian campaign would be reduced to a mere puppet . In actual fact , Juno's words transcend the actual sequence of events ...
... clearly imaginable consequences for the verisimilitude and artistic quality of the text , since the leader of the Italian campaign would be reduced to a mere puppet . In actual fact , Juno's words transcend the actual sequence of events ...
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Aeneas Aeneid Alps amnem amnis Anna and Hannibal Anna Perenna Anna's antiquarian antithesis aquas archaeology army atque battle battle of Cannae Battus bellum Cannae Carthage Carthaginian causa cult cursu defeat dextra Dido Didone divinities elements Ennius ensem epic epigraph episode epos Eridanus fact Fasti Flavian poet germana goddess gurgite haec Hannibal Hannibal's hero Homeric hostility hydronym illa inter Iuno Juno Latin Latium Lavinium lines linked literary litora mache parapotamios magna mihi motif multa myth narrative nature Nevius Numicius numina nunc nymph Ofanto Ovid Ovid's poem Punica quae quam quid reader regarding rerum ripas river Roma Roman Rome and Carthage sanguine scene Scipio Second Punic Second Punic War Seneca's Silio Silius Italicus sister sororis stagna story styleme takes tellus terque terra theme tibi tradition Trebia Trojan unda undis Virgil virum visa waters writer καὶ
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Classical Constructions: Papers in Memory of Don Fowler, Classicist and ... S. J. Heyworth No preview available - 2007 |
Flavian Poetry Ruurd R. Nauta,Harm-Jan van Dam,Johannes Jacobus Louis Smolenaars No preview available - 2006 |