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... connection to the present , to the world of the reader , depends in my opinion on its antiquarian interest , ( of which the philokalos 12 poet had a large dose ) , as it probes the history of the great war between Rome and Carthage ...
... connection to the present , to the world of the reader , depends in my opinion on its antiquarian interest , ( of which the philokalos 12 poet had a large dose ) , as it probes the history of the great war between Rome and Carthage ...
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... connection with the narrative as such . Silius does not tell us who hears Juno's threats to the Romans or when , unless we interpret - in my view unjustifiably 1.55 haec ait ac iuvenem facta ad Mavortia flammat as meaning they were ...
... connection with the narrative as such . Silius does not tell us who hears Juno's threats to the Romans or when , unless we interpret - in my view unjustifiably 1.55 haec ait ac iuvenem facta ad Mavortia flammat as meaning they were ...
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... connection with a natural phenomenon ) . The differing deaths of various warriors - mille simul leti facies - give Silius the chance to anchor the theme of the mache parapotamios soundly in his narrative . In the four death scenes of ...
... connection with a natural phenomenon ) . The differing deaths of various warriors - mille simul leti facies - give Silius the chance to anchor the theme of the mache parapotamios soundly in his narrative . In the four death scenes of ...
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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 |