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... MYTH AND HISTORY 1. The Punica as museum . The words of the younger Pliny continue to cast a shadow over the surviving corpus of Silius Italicus ' work . The vast majority of critics , ancient and modern , has concurred in his verdict ...
... MYTH AND HISTORY 1. The Punica as museum . The words of the younger Pliny continue to cast a shadow over the surviving corpus of Silius Italicus ' work . The vast majority of critics , ancient and modern , has concurred in his verdict ...
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... mythical superstructure , the critic encounters features which seem not wholly to belong to the traditional patrimony of Homeric and Virgilian mythology , and which must probably be traced back to the authors of roman archaic epic ...
... mythical superstructure , the critic encounters features which seem not wholly to belong to the traditional patrimony of Homeric and Virgilian mythology , and which must probably be traced back to the authors of roman archaic epic ...
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... myth and history in Silius ' narrative . The meeting of Anna and Hannibal , that is , the myth which deter- mines history , may justifiably be considered one of the most signifi- cant points of the Punica , not least because we can ...
... myth and history in Silius ' narrative . The meeting of Anna and Hannibal , that is , the myth which deter- mines history , may justifiably be considered one of the most signifi- cant points of the Punica , not least because we can ...
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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 |