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

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

This Narratological Commentary on Silius’ Battle of Ticinus lays bare the narrative form of the text by addressing numerous narratological aspects, including plot-development, focalization, space, and intertextuality. The book also focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity with its dynamic processes of (un-)strategic production, perception, and resolution. Ambiguity is a central feature of the Punica because of the epic’s constant oscillation between fact and fiction: it treats the changing fortunes of war and the tension between Rome and Carthage, which Silius translates into a moment of poetical equilibrium by his paradoxical problematization of triumph in defeat and defeat through triumph.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-22
Mått:155 x 235 x 32 mm
Vikt:834 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill's Narratological Commentaries on Ancient Texts
Antal sidor:420
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004522664

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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).

Innehållsförteckning

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