Brill’s Companion to Silius Italicus Brill’s Companion to Silius Italicus Edited by Antony Augoustakis LEIDEN • BOSTON 2010 On the cover: Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851). The Tate Gallery. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brill’s companion to Silius Italicus / edited by Antony Augoustakis. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-16570-0 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. Punica. 2. Epic poetry, Latin—History and criticism. 3. Rome—History, Military—265–30 B.C.—Poetry. 4. Punic War, 2nd, 218–201 B.C.— Literature and the war. 5. Punic War, 2nd, 218–201 B.C.—Poetry. I. Augoustakis, Antony. II. Title: Companion to Silius Italicus. PA6695.B75 2009 873’.01—dc22 2009044690 ISSN 1872-3357 ISBN 978 90 04 16570 0 Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands To Kostas and Eleni accessi comes, atque omnes sociauimus annos (Punica 6.129) CONTENTS Foreword and Acknowledgments ............................................... xi Texts and Abbreviations ............................................................. xiii Notes on Contributors ................................................................ xvii A. INTRODUCTION 1. Silius Italicus, A Flavian Poet ................................................ 3 Antony Augoustakis B. THE PUNICA: CONTEXT AND INTERTEXT 2. To Silius Through Livy and his Predecessors ....................... 27 Arthur Pomeroy 3. Silius Italicus: A Consular Historian? ................................... 47 Bruce Gibson 4. Virgil’s Dido and the Heroism of Hannibal in Silius’ Punica ........................................................................... 73 Randall T. Ganiban 5. Imitation and the Hero .......................................................... 99 Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen 6. Silius and Lucan .................................................................... 127 Raymond Marks 7. Interplay: Silius and Statius in the Games of Punica 16 ...... 155 Helen Lovatt viii contents C. THE PUNICA: THEMES AND IMAGES a. Silius and the Tradition of Exemplary Heroism 8. Hercules as a Paradigm of Roman Heroism ...................... 179 Paolo Asso 9. Virtue and Narrative in Silius Italicus’ Punica ..................... 193 Ben Tipping 10. The Shield and the Sword: Q. Fabius Maximus and M. Claudius Marcellus as Models of Heroism in Silius’ Punica .......................................................................... 219 Marco Fucecchi 11. Fons Cuncti Varro Mali: The Demagogue Varro in Punica 8–10 ........................................................................... 241 Enrico M. Ariemma b. Ekphrasis and Imagery 12. Picturing the Future Again: Proleptic Ekphrasis in Silius’ Punica .......................................................................... 279 Stephen J. Harrison 13. Silius’ Natural History: Tides in the Punica ......................... 293 Eleni Manolaraki 14. Virtual Epic: Counterfactuals, Sideshadowing, and the Poetics of Contingency in the Punica ................................... 323 Robert Cowan c. Gender 15. Engendering Orientalism in Silius’ Punica ........................... 355 Alison M. Keith contents ix d. Epic and Society 16. Family and State in the Punica ............................................. 377 Neil W. Bernstein D. RECEPTION AND CRITICISM 17. Silius Italicus in the Italian Renaissance .............................. 401 Frances Muecke 18. The Reception of Silius Italicus in Modern Scholarship ... 425 William J. Dominik Bibliography ................................................................................ 449 General Index ............................................................................. 473 Index Locorum I ........................................................................ 487 Index Locorum II ....................................................................... 499