Dr R. Joy Littlewood is an independent scholar based in Oxford, where she has been a member of the Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity at Corpus Christi College for the last decade. Her early research in the late 1970s led to three pioneering articles on Ovid's Fasti followed by a commentary on Ovid's Fasti, Book 6 (Oxford University Press, 2006), which formed a major part of a doctorate by published work, awarded in 2007. Since then she has worked almost exclusively on Flavian epic, publishing a commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 7 in 2011 with OUP and recently beginning another on Punica 3 alongside Antony Augoustakis. Among various other current projects, she has also undertaken to complete the fourth and final volume of Jim McKeown's monumental commentary on Ovid's Amores.

Three volumes have been published - Littlewood on Punica 7 and 10, and Bernstein on 2...As befits members of a publisher's series, these two exemplary volumes share features and a general approach. Both tackle the question of how Silius turns history to epic; both are illuminating on his language, metre and style.

• INTRODUCTION; SIGLA; SILI ITALICI PUNICORUM LIBER DECIMUS; COMMENTARY; ENDMATTER

Dr R. Joy Littlewood is an independent scholar based in Oxford, where she has been a member of the Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity at Corpus Christi College for the last decade. Her early research in the late 1970s led to three pioneering articles on Ovid's Fasti followed by a commentary on Ovid's Fasti, Book 6 (Oxford University Press, 2006), which formed a major part of a doctorate by published work, awarded in 2007. Since then she has worked almost exclusively on Flavian epic, publishing a commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 7 in 2011 with OUP and recently beginning another on Punica 3 alongside Antony Augoustakis. Among various other current projects, she has also undertaken to complete the fourth and final volume of Jim McKeown's monumental commentary on Ovid's Amores.

Three volumes have been published - Littlewood on Punica 7 and 10, and Bernstein on 2...As befits members of a publisher's series, these two exemplary volumes share features and a general approach. Both tackle the question of how Silius turns history to epic; both are illuminating on his language, metre and style.

• INTRODUCTION; SIGLA; SILI ITALICI PUNICORUM LIBER DECIMUS; COMMENTARY; ENDMATTER

Dr R. Joy Littlewood is an independent scholar based in Oxford, where she has been a member of the Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity at Corpus Christi College for the last decade. Her early research in the late 1970s led to three pioneering articles on Ovid's Fasti followed by a commentary on Ovid's Fasti, Book 6 (Oxford University Press, 2006), which formed a major part of a doctorate by published work, awarded in 2007. Since then she has worked almost exclusively on Flavian epic, publishing a commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 7 in 2011 with OUP and recently beginning another on Punica 3 alongside Antony Augoustakis. Among various other current projects, she has also undertaken to complete the fourth and final volume of Jim McKeown's monumental commentary on Ovid's Amores.

Three volumes have been published - Littlewood on Punica 7 and 10, and Bernstein on 2...As befits members of a publisher's series, these two exemplary volumes share features and a general approach. Both tackle the question of how Silius turns history to epic; both are illuminating on his language, metre and style.

• INTRODUCTION; SIGLA; SILI ITALICI PUNICORUM LIBER DECIMUS; COMMENTARY; ENDMATTER