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.

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.

• GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1. The Political Life and Literary Formation of Silius Italicus 2. Hannibal's Enterprise 2.1. In the Steps of Hercules? 2.2. In the Steps of Aeneas? 3. Hannibal and Imilce 4. Hannibal's Army 4.1. Historiographic Assessment and Poetic Distortion 4.2. Silius' Epic Catalogue of Hannibal's Troops 4.3. Icons of Imperialism in Hannibal's African and Iberian Troop Catalogues 4.4. The Significance of Iberia in the Catalogue 5. Hannibal's Alpine Crossing 5.1. Hannibal's Route and Recent Archaeological Evidence 5.2. Sublimity 5.3. Hannibal and Further Epicurean Postures 6. Divine Prophecy 6.1. Epic Closural Motifs 6.2. Jupiter and Venus 6.3. Hammon's Oracle 7. Language and Style 7.1. Diction and Figures of Speech 7.2. Epic Similes 7.3. Metre and Prosody 8. Text and Transmission SIGLA, TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND APPARATUS CRITICUS COMMENTARY

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.

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.

• GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1. The Political Life and Literary Formation of Silius Italicus 2. Hannibal's Enterprise 2.1. In the Steps of Hercules? 2.2. In the Steps of Aeneas? 3. Hannibal and Imilce 4. Hannibal's Army 4.1. Historiographic Assessment and Poetic Distortion 4.2. Silius' Epic Catalogue of Hannibal's Troops 4.3. Icons of Imperialism in Hannibal's African and Iberian Troop Catalogues 4.4. The Significance of Iberia in the Catalogue 5. Hannibal's Alpine Crossing 5.1. Hannibal's Route and Recent Archaeological Evidence 5.2. Sublimity 5.3. Hannibal and Further Epicurean Postures 6. Divine Prophecy 6.1. Epic Closural Motifs 6.2. Jupiter and Venus 6.3. Hammon's Oracle 7. Language and Style 7.1. Diction and Figures of Speech 7.2. Epic Similes 7.3. Metre and Prosody 8. Text and Transmission SIGLA, TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND APPARATUS CRITICUS COMMENTARY

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.

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.

• GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1. The Political Life and Literary Formation of Silius Italicus 2. Hannibal's Enterprise 2.1. In the Steps of Hercules? 2.2. In the Steps of Aeneas? 3. Hannibal and Imilce 4. Hannibal's Army 4.1. Historiographic Assessment and Poetic Distortion 4.2. Silius' Epic Catalogue of Hannibal's Troops 4.3. Icons of Imperialism in Hannibal's African and Iberian Troop Catalogues 4.4. The Significance of Iberia in the Catalogue 5. Hannibal's Alpine Crossing 5.1. Hannibal's Route and Recent Archaeological Evidence 5.2. Sublimity 5.3. Hannibal and Further Epicurean Postures 6. Divine Prophecy 6.1. Epic Closural Motifs 6.2. Jupiter and Venus 6.3. Hammon's Oracle 7. Language and Style 7.1. Diction and Figures of Speech 7.2. Epic Similes 7.3. Metre and Prosody 8. Text and Transmission SIGLA, TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND APPARATUS CRITICUS COMMENTARY