Institute for the Classical Tradition

ANRW II.32.4, pp. 2492-2561

Silius Italicus by Frederick Ahl, Ithaca, New York, Martha A. Davis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Arthur Pomeroy, Wellington, New Zealand Contents
Introduction	2493
I. Some Vergilian Themes	2493
II. Silius and Lucan: the Blessings of Defeat	2501
III. The Battle-centered Structure	2505
IV. Silius' Hannibal	2511
V. Heroes in Defeat: Flaminius	2519
VI. Fabius	2523
VII. The Men of Cannae: Paulus and Varro	2531
VIII. Rome Victorious: Marcellus and Claudius Nero	2536
IX. Scipio Africanus	2542
Conclusion	2555
Bibliography	2558