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Foreword and Acknowledgments Texts and Abbreviations Notes on Contributors
A. INTRODUCTION
1. Silius Italicus, A Flavian Poet, Antony Augoustakis
B. THE PUNICA: CONTEXT AND INTERTEXT
2. To Silius Through Livy and his Predecessors, Arthur Pomeroy
3. Silius Italicus: A Consular Historian? Bruce Gibson
4. Virgil’s Dido and the Heroism of Hannibal in Silius’ Punica, Randall T. Ganiban
5. Imitation and the Hero, Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen
6. Silius and Lucan, Raymond Marks
7. Interplay: Silius and Statius in the Games of Punica 16, Helen Lovatt
C. THE PUNICA: THEMES AND IMAGES a. Silius and the Tradition of Exemplary Heroism
8. Hercules as a Paradigm of Roman Heroism, Paolo Asso
9. Virtue and Narrative in Silius Italicus’ Punica, Ben Tipping
10. The Shield and the Sword: Q. Fabius Maximus and M. Claudius Marcellus as Models of Heroism in Silius’ Punica , Marco Fucecchi
11. Fons Cuncti Varro Mali: The Demagogue Varro in Punica 8–10, Enrico M. Ariemma
b. Ekphrasis and Imagery
12. Picturing the Future Again: Proleptic Ekphrasis in Silius’ Punica , Stephen J. Harrison
13. Silius’ Natural History: Tides in the Punica , Eleni Manolaraki
14. Virtual Epic: Counterfactuals, Sideshadowing, and the Poetics of Contingency in the Punica , Robert Cowan
c. Gender
15. Engendering Orientalism in Silius’ Punica , Alison M. Keith
d. Epic and Society
16. Family and State in the Punica , Neil W. Bernstein
D. RECEPTION AND CRITICISM
17. Silius Italicus in the Italian Renaissance, Frances Muecke
18. The Reception of Silius Italicus in Modern Scholarship, William J. Dominik
Bibliography General Index Index Locorum I Index Locorum II
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reviewed Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus on May 22, 2014
Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus
Behold yon mountain's hoary height
Made higher with new mounds of snow:
Again behold the winter's weight
Oppress the labouring woods below...
- Horace, Ode I, 9: Dryden translation.
Old age is No Fun!
So seems to say the aging Roman master Horace in this excerpt. And I couldn't agree more!
As well as being a time of myriad aches and pains and illnesses, it is a time when efforts at calm reflection are upset by "undisciplined squadrons of emotion" (Eliot)
For it is a time when your "Heart rises to the surface" (Elizabeth Hay).
Yikes! Is there a CURE for these Oldtimer's Blues?
Yes! says Horace: just AC-CENT-U-ATE the Positive... for there ARE good times to be had in the Wintertime of Life!
Listen to the happy turn the wintry Ode 9 takes next:
With well-heaped logs dissolve the cold
And feed the genial hearth with fires,
Produce the wine that makes us bold,
And sprightly wit and love inspires.
And throughout these mature poems, Horace stresses the Golden Mean - neither getting out of hand with levity or getting wrapped up in your sorrows.
This is good advice indeed for me and all my friends "of a certain age."
Old age is not for sissies - and neither is it a time to "measure our life in coffee spoons."
Don't dwell on what you've lost -
Be Happy for what you HAVE -
Right HERE & NOW.
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