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... defeats for the Romans , at Ticinus , Trebbia , Traimene and Cannae . The literary device Silius uses in this exposition is , however , unique : a series of rivers swollen with the blood of the slain , or even blocked by the mass of ...
... defeats for the Romans , at Ticinus , Trebbia , Traimene and Cannae . The literary device Silius uses in this exposition is , however , unique : a series of rivers swollen with the blood of the slain , or even blocked by the mass of ...
Page 75
... defeat are kept ) . W. Kissel op . cit . , p.106 n.15 is right in his observation on the allusive and antithetic nature of the episode compared to Aen . 1 , 11. 453 - 493 , but , as M. Bettini who dedicates a chapter to Ennio in Silio ...
... defeat are kept ) . W. Kissel op . cit . , p.106 n.15 is right in his observation on the allusive and antithetic nature of the episode compared to Aen . 1 , 11. 453 - 493 , but , as M. Bettini who dedicates a chapter to Ennio in Silio ...
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... defeat ; yet it is also , like the Pharsalia , a tale of ultimate defeat in victory " - so that the true distinguishing trait of the poem's characters lies substantially not in their nationality , but in their adherence to the authentic ...
... defeat ; yet it is also , like the Pharsalia , a tale of ultimate defeat in victory " - so that the true distinguishing trait of the poem's characters lies substantially not in their nationality , but in their adherence to the authentic ...
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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 |