Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (Latin: [ˈsiːlijʊs ɪˈt̪alɪkʊs], c. 26 – c. 101 AD) was a Roman senator, orator and epic poet of the Silver Age...
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Viriathus (section Viriathus of Silius Italicus)
"killed numerous Romans and showed great skill". It has been argued that Silius Italicus, in his epic poem entitled Punica, mentions a former Viriathus who...
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Iberian city allied with Carthage. The Roman poet Silius Italicus identifies this woman as Imilce. Silius suggests a Greek origin for Imilce, but Gilbert...
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Religion. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-13549-4. Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius (2022). Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9: Edited with Introduction, Translation...
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Virgil's Tomb (Joseph Wright paintings) (redirect from Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming)
1779, includes the figure of Silius Italicus, a slightly later poet known to have been an admirer of Virgil. Silius Italicus owned the tomb and its surroundings...
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his most ardent admirers in Silius Italicus. With almost every line of his epic Punica, Silius references Virgil. Silius is known to have bought and restored...
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Loeb Classical Library (section Silius Italicus)
The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; /loʊb/, German: [løːp]) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but...
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4.9 (calling the island "Pithecussae"); Ridgway, David, pp. 35–36; Silius Italicus, Punica 8.540–541 (I pp. 432–422); Claudian, Rape of Proserpine 3.183–184...
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both Typhon and Giants buried under the island of Ischia. Virgil, Silius Italicus and Claudian, all calling the island "Inarime", have Typhon buried...
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Latin epic poem in seventeen books in dactylic hexameter written by Silius Italicus (c. 28 – c. 103 AD), comprising some twelve thousand lines (12,202...
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