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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studien zur Klassischen Philologie
ISBN-10
3631545843
ISBN-13
9783631545843
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 5th, 2005
Print length
308 Pages
Weight
418 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 21.00 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medievalHistory
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From Republic to Empire challenges the long-held view that Silius Italicus’ Punica is a nostalgic epic and argues that it is, instead, centrally concerned with and fundamentally shaped by the contemporary Flavian world in which it was composed. The epic documents how Rome’s Republic took its first steps toward becoming an Empire during the Second Punic War and identifies the leader Scipio Africanus as the critical impetus behind this development: his rise to prominence in the war’s later stages brings about a change in Rome’s power-structure, a shift toward one-man rule, Scipio’s «rule», that prefigures and paves the way for the political arrangement under which the poet himself lived, the Principate. In portraying Scipio as a good king and a virtuous princeps, Silius, furthermore, offers the emperor of his own day, Domitian, a leadership-ideal to aspire to and emulate.
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