Ambiguities of War: A Narratological Commentary on Silius Italicus’ Battle of Ticinus (Sil. 4.1-479)

Elisabeth Schedel, Dr. phil. (2020), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, is lecturer of Latin literature. She has recently published a chapter on the potential and limitations of narratological close-readings of epic fragments (in Reitz/Finkmann, Structures of Epic Poetry I, Brill, 2019).

• Introduction1 Premises, Objectives, Goals2 Approaches and Methods3 Ambiguity4 The Structure of Book 45 Conceptual Structure: How to Use This CommentaryCommentary1 Scene 1: 1–55 Ausonia before the Outbreak of the Battles2 Summary of 56–479: The Battle of Ticinus3 Scene 2: 56–142 The First Encounter of the Armies4 Scene 3: 143–188 The Attack of the Boians5 Scene 4: 189–247 The Roman Counterattack6 Scene 5: 248–310 Single Combat between the Consul and Crixus7 Scene 6: 311–354 The Attack of the Carthaginians8 Scene 7: 355–400 The Combat between Two Sets of Triplets9 Scene 8: 401–479 The Consul Scipio in Trouble and his RescueGlossaryBibliographyIndex