Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 3: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

ISBN-13: 9780198821281 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 416 str.

based in Oxford) Littlewood R. Joy (Independent scholar

Recenzje

The commentary is very good on the many layers of intertextual echoes and references, as well as intratextual connections between Book 3 and the rest of the Punica. It will greatly help both students and scholars alike to appreciate the literary merits of this book.

O autorze

Antony Augoustakis is the author of Statius, Thebaid 8 (OUP, 2016), Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (OUP, 2010) and Plautus' Mercator (Bryn Mawr, 2009). He has edited and co-edited several volumes on Flavian epic, Roman comedy, and Late Antiquity. He serves as editor of The Classical Journal. R. Joy Littlewood has published commentaries on Ovid's Fasti Book 6 (OUP, 2006), Silius Italicus' Punica Book 7 (Oxford, 2011), and Punica 10 (Oxford, 2017). She has recently completed the fourth volume of J. C. McKeown's commentary on Ovid's Amores.