Antony Augoustakis,Neil W. (Ohio University Bernstein USA)
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Neil W. (Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies Bernstein Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies Ohio University)
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Silius Italicus' Punica, a Latin epic poem on the second Punic war written at the end of the first century CE, is both the longest Latin poem remaining from antiquity and the only surviving work of it
Rhetorical training was the central component of an elite Roman man's education, and declamations--imaginary courtroom speeches in the character of a fictional or historical individual--were the most
Only four Roman epic poems survive from the Flavian period (69-96 AD): Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica, Statius's Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus's Punica. Neil W. Bernstein argues that thes
Book 9 of Silius Italicus' first-century Latin epic poem Punica begins the narrative of the Battle of Cannae (August 216 BC). This new translation with critical apparatus is accompanied by detailed co
