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Page 48
... once more by surprise on the coasts of Latium ( just as a tempest had thrown Aeneas up on the coasts of Carthage ) , and finally united by destiny in the river Numicius and both raised to godhead . There is some justification for ...
... once more by surprise on the coasts of Latium ( just as a tempest had thrown Aeneas up on the coasts of Carthage ) , and finally united by destiny in the river Numicius and both raised to godhead . There is some justification for ...
Page 71
... once the most grandiose and the most terrible for the Roman army . Silius shifts his perspective here , broadening it at the same time . In order to create a more dramatic scene , rather than describe future events , Silius mediates the ...
... once the most grandiose and the most terrible for the Roman army . Silius shifts his perspective here , broadening it at the same time . In order to create a more dramatic scene , rather than describe future events , Silius mediates the ...
Page 78
... once more have re- ferred to the styleme of the mache parapotamios at this particular point in the poem . The battle of Zama brings the Second Punic War to an end and constitutes the final lysis of the narrative : in this context the ...
... once more have re- ferred to the styleme of the mache parapotamios at this particular point in the poem . The battle of Zama brings the Second Punic War to an end and constitutes the final lysis of the narrative : in this context the ...
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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 |