Joy Littlewood is an independent scholar based in Oxford. The main focus of her research in Latin literature has been the rehabilitation of two major Latin poems once notoriously misjudged as literary failures: Ovid's Fasti and Silius Italicus' Punica.

a treasure trove of details, which will be an excellent basis for further literary appreciation of this long-neglected poet. ... an important tool, with 'mini-companion' thrown into the bargain due to the substantial introduction.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; I. Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus: His Contribution to Public Life and Literature ; II. Literary Models ; 1. Intertextual allusion in Silius ; 2. Silius historical sources: Livy and Polybius ; 3. Homer ; 4. Ennius ; 5. Virgil ; (a) The fall of Troy ; (b) The violation of Italy: Silius subverted Georgic ; 6. Ovid s Fasti ; (a) Faunus, fertility, and the Fabii ; (b) Contrasting theoxenies: Ovid s Hyreius and Silius Falernus ; 7. Lucan ; (a) Civil war and the divided command ; (b) Personal ambition and the danger of autocracy ; (c) The discourse of luxuria ; 8. Statius ; 9. Valerius Flaccus ; III. The Protagonists of Punica 7 ; 1. Q. Fabius Maximus, a Flavian and a Stoic hero ; 2. Hannibal, an oriental enemy ; IV. Silius Epic Style ; 1. The structure of Punica 7 ; 2. Language and style ; 3. Epic rhetoric: The speeches of Fabius and Hannibal ; 4. Poetic uarietas in Silius hand-to-hand combat ; V. The Transmission and Reception of Punica ; SIGLA ; SILI ITALICI PVNICORVM LIBER SEPTIMVS ; COMMENTARY ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; FURTHER READING ; INDEX VERBORUM ; INDEX NOMINUM ET RERUM

Joy Littlewood is an independent scholar based in Oxford. The main focus of her research in Latin literature has been the rehabilitation of two major Latin poems once notoriously misjudged as literary failures: Ovid's Fasti and Silius Italicus' Punica.

a treasure trove of details, which will be an excellent basis for further literary appreciation of this long-neglected poet. ... an important tool, with 'mini-companion' thrown into the bargain due to the substantial introduction.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; I. Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus: His Contribution to Public Life and Literature ; II. Literary Models ; 1. Intertextual allusion in Silius ; 2. Silius historical sources: Livy and Polybius ; 3. Homer ; 4. Ennius ; 5. Virgil ; (a) The fall of Troy ; (b) The violation of Italy: Silius subverted Georgic ; 6. Ovid s Fasti ; (a) Faunus, fertility, and the Fabii ; (b) Contrasting theoxenies: Ovid s Hyreius and Silius Falernus ; 7. Lucan ; (a) Civil war and the divided command ; (b) Personal ambition and the danger of autocracy ; (c) The discourse of luxuria ; 8. Statius ; 9. Valerius Flaccus ; III. The Protagonists of Punica 7 ; 1. Q. Fabius Maximus, a Flavian and a Stoic hero ; 2. Hannibal, an oriental enemy ; IV. Silius Epic Style ; 1. The structure of Punica 7 ; 2. Language and style ; 3. Epic rhetoric: The speeches of Fabius and Hannibal ; 4. Poetic uarietas in Silius hand-to-hand combat ; V. The Transmission and Reception of Punica ; SIGLA ; SILI ITALICI PVNICORVM LIBER SEPTIMVS ; COMMENTARY ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; FURTHER READING ; INDEX VERBORUM ; INDEX NOMINUM ET RERUM

Joy Littlewood is an independent scholar based in Oxford. The main focus of her research in Latin literature has been the rehabilitation of two major Latin poems once notoriously misjudged as literary failures: Ovid's Fasti and Silius Italicus' Punica.

a treasure trove of details, which will be an excellent basis for further literary appreciation of this long-neglected poet. ... an important tool, with 'mini-companion' thrown into the bargain due to the substantial introduction.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; I. Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus: His Contribution to Public Life and Literature ; II. Literary Models ; 1. Intertextual allusion in Silius ; 2. Silius historical sources: Livy and Polybius ; 3. Homer ; 4. Ennius ; 5. Virgil ; (a) The fall of Troy ; (b) The violation of Italy: Silius subverted Georgic ; 6. Ovid s Fasti ; (a) Faunus, fertility, and the Fabii ; (b) Contrasting theoxenies: Ovid s Hyreius and Silius Falernus ; 7. Lucan ; (a) Civil war and the divided command ; (b) Personal ambition and the danger of autocracy ; (c) The discourse of luxuria ; 8. Statius ; 9. Valerius Flaccus ; III. The Protagonists of Punica 7 ; 1. Q. Fabius Maximus, a Flavian and a Stoic hero ; 2. Hannibal, an oriental enemy ; IV. Silius Epic Style ; 1. The structure of Punica 7 ; 2. Language and style ; 3. Epic rhetoric: The speeches of Fabius and Hannibal ; 4. Poetic uarietas in Silius hand-to-hand combat ; V. The Transmission and Reception of Punica ; SIGLA ; SILI ITALICI PVNICORVM LIBER SEPTIMVS ; COMMENTARY ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; FURTHER READING ; INDEX VERBORUM ; INDEX NOMINUM ET RERUM