Exemplary epic : Silius Italicus' Punica / Ben Tipping.

The force of example was a distinctive determiner of Roman identity. In this study of the representation of certain central characters in Silius Italicus' 'Punica', Ben Tipping considers the virtues & vices they embody, their status as exemplars, & the process by which Silius...

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Main Author: Tipping, Ben
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
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505 0 |a Exordium. Epic ; Example -- Perspective and paradigm. Myth and history ; Virtue and vice ; Civil wars and Caesars ; Scipio and Domitian -- Hannibal. Worse than Punic ; Improba virtus ; Various villainy ; Intertextual instability ; Better than Roman -- Fabius Maximus Cunctator. Great restraint ; One and many ; Republican monarchy ; Delaying dynamism -- Scipio Africanus Maior. Dual citizenship ; Superheroism ; Espirit de corps ; Immortal yearnings ; Power and glory ; Triumph and after -- Upending. Competition ; Conclusion. 
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