This is the first dedicated commentary on the eighth and final book of Valerius Flaccus' Flavian epic Argonautica. It includes the Latin text, a new English translation, and detailed discussion of a range of literary, linguistic, and textual issues. It is the final work of the promisingscholar Cristiano Castelletti, edited by friends and colleagues. The edition benefits from his wide-ranging knowledge of ancient poetry and provides perceptive insights into the texture of this important book. It will make the final section of the poem more easily accessible to an internationalreadership and addresses questions of the original length of the poem, of intertextuality, and of poetic practices in late first-century CE Rome.

Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 8: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry)

Children's Books

Manuwald, Gesine

Augoustakis, Antony

Castelletti, Cristiano

Fucecchi, Marco

Classics

Oxford University Press

Hannibal's crossing of the Alps represents a momentous event in the beginning of the Second Punic War (218-202 BCE). The third book of Silius Italicus' Punica reimagines this courageous feat, retracing the journey of Hannibal and his army from the temple of Hercules/Melqart in Gades, across the Pyrenees, the Rhone, and the Alpine peaks into northern Italy. Significant stages in the journey are marked by prophecies: the gods reveal to Hannibal in a dream his future destruction of Italy through a dream with a giant snake; Jupiter unveils to his daughter Venus the future of the Roman empire through the Flavians and Domitian himself; the oracle of Hammon in the African desert prophesies the Roman defeat at Cannae.\nThe Flavian poet builds his narrative around several key episodes that programmatically set the tone for the whole poem: separation from family, a futuristic distinction between African and Iberian troops in the catalogue, the transgressive nature of Hannibal's struggle with nature and the divine.\nThe commentary explores each scene in the context of the poetic, philosophical, and historiographic background, with reference also to material culture. The philological and stylistic exegeses aim to reveal the linguistic complexities which colour this fascinating Flavian reconstruction of the topos of 'the epic hero's journey'. The Latin text is presented alongside an English translation and supplemented with maps and images to support understanding the broad historical context of Silius' poem.

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 3: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Littlewood, R. Joy

History & Criticism

This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the role of women in the epic poems of the Flavian period of Latin literature. Antony Augoustakis examines the role of female characters from the perspective of Julia Kristeva's theories on foreign otherness and motherhood to underscore the on-going negotiation between same and other in the Roman literary imagination as a telling reflection on the construction of Roman identity and of gender and cultural hierarchies.

Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory)

Silius Italicus' Punica: Rome’s War with Hannibal

This book offers, in one volume, a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus’ Punica. 
Composed in the first century CE, this epic tells the story of the Second Punic War between Rome and Hannibal’s Carthage (218-202 BCE). It is not only a crucial text for students of Flavian literature, but also an important source for anyone studying early Imperial perspectives on the Roman Republic. The translation is clear and comprehensible, while also offering an accurate representation of the Latin text. 
Augmented by a scholarly introduction, extensive notes, glossary and a comprehensive bibliography (included in the introduction), this volume makes the text accessible and relevant for students and scholars alike.

Bernstein, Neil W.

Literary

Routledge

"This book offers, in one volume, a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus' Punica. Composed in the first century CE, this epic tells the story of the Second Punic War between Rome and Hannibal's Carthage (218-202 BCE). It is not only a crucial text for students of Flavian literature, but also an important source for anyone studying early Imperial perspectives on the Roman Republic. The translation is clear and comprehensible, while also offering an accurate representation of the Latin text. Augmented by a scholarly introduction, extensive notes, glossary and a comprehensive bibliography (included in the introduction), this volume makes the text accessible and relevant for students and scholars alike"--

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Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 8: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry)

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 3: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry)

Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory)

Silius Italicus' Punica: Rome’s War with Hannibal

Silius Italicus' Punica: Rome’s War with Hannibal