The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus’ ‘Punica’
Claire Stocks / Liverpool University Press, 2014
...The Roman Hannibal 1. The Roman Hannibal Defined 2. Before Silius: The Creation of the Roman Hannibal 3. Silius’ Influences 4. Epic Models 5. Silius’ Roman Hannibal 6. Out of...
BMCR 2010.09.48Hannibal. Ancients in Action
Robert Garland / Bristol Classical Press, 2010
...eventually Africa. Although he emphasizes Hannibal’s activities in Italy when possible, there is often little to say, since Hannibal increasingly became a sideshow in the war as the Romans managed...
BMCR 2005.07.65Hannibal’s Dynasty: Power and Politics in the Western Mediterranean, 247-183 B.C. Paperback edition
B. D. (B. Dexter) Hoyos / Routledge, 2005, 2003
...Saguntum (pp. 98-99), for Hannibal’s several months’ delay before setting out for Italy in late summer 218 (pp. 102-105), and why Hannibal did not march on Rome immediately after Trasimene...
BMCR 2016.04.26Cornelius Nepos, Life of Hannibal: Latin Text, Notes, Maps, Illustrations and Vocabulary. Dickinson College commentaries
Bret Mulligan / Open Book Publishers, 2015
...of Hannibal offered by any ancient author” (under the “Hannibal” subheading in the Introduction, p. 39 in print), yet offers no explanation for why that might be. The introduction details...
BMCR 2007.03.36Livy: Hannibal’s war (books 21-30). With an introduction and notes by Dexter Hoyos. Oxford World’s Classics
Livy., John Yardley, B. D. (B. Dexter) Hoyos / Oxford University Press, 2006
...Hannibal. He correctly translates this word as “the Carthaginians” in, e.g., 21.8.3 and 21.9.1, and as “Hannibal” or “the Carthaginian” (i.e., Hannibal) in, e.g., 21.12.5 and 21.24.5. In 21.8.8, however,...
BMCR 2019.07.20Hannibal ad portas: Silius Italicus, ‘Punica’ 12,507-752. Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar
Jan Robinson Telg Genannt Kortmann / Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018
Silius Italicus’ Punica has recently seen a growing number of commentaries, and the present volume by Kortmann is a very good...
BMCR 2021.10.39Silius Italicus’ “Punica”: Rome’s war with Hannibal
Antony Augoustakis, Neil W. Bernstein / Routledge, 2021
...one of the most famous wars in Rome’s history and one of its most prominent adversaries in the figure of Hannibal. For scholars studying later Republican and Imperial views on...
BMCR 2013.10.24Livy on the Hannibalic War
D. S. Levene / Oxford University Press, 2010
...the basis of something that he is clear that they do not know” (335), namely that Hannibal was going to cross the Alps. To be sure, Livy foreshadows Hannibal’s Alpine...
BMCR 2011.03.74Exemplary Epic: Silius Italicus’ Punica. Oxford Classical Monographs
Ben Tipping / Oxford University Press, 2010
...the chapter on Hannibal, Tipping begins with a brief survey of the different, and often differing, portrayals of Hannibal in earlier Greek (primarily Polybius) and Latin (primarily Cicero and Livy)...
BMCR 2014.01.46Levene on Fronda on Levene, Livy on the Hannibalic War
...Hannibal entering winter quarters, but when he shows him leaving them, and what he represents as happening afterwards. According to Livy, Hannibal spent most of the winter in Capua (23.18.10),...
BMCR 2022.09.46Polybius: experience and the lessons of history
Daniel Walker Moore / Brill, 2020
...Moore provides three ways in which Hannibal behaves like a historian. First, he is a researcher. Hannibal is adamant about the necessity to acquire knowledge of the terrain and the...
BMCR 2008.01.20Scipio Africanus
Alexander Acimovic / iUniverse, Inc, 2007
...4. E.g., Habib Boularès, Hannibal (Paris, 2000); Giovanni Brizzi, Annibale (Roma, 2000); Karl Christ, Hannibal (Darmstadt, 2003); and, most recently, Pedro Barceló, Hannibal: Stratege und Staatsmann (Stuttgart, 2004). Many earlier...
BMCR 2011.09.22Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy during the Second Punic War
Michael P. Fronda / Cambridge University Press, 2010
...down to the Social War, in an attempt to understand how Rome was eventually able to unify Italy where Hannibal failed. Unlike Hannibal, who tried to unify Italy in only...
BMCR 2011.12.15Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography. Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture
Eric Adler / University of Texas Press, 2011
...Hannibal et aux Puniques, le portrait des Carthaginois n’est pas toujours péjoratif, et qu’on y trouve même une certaine compréhension. Celle-ci transparaît notamment dans le fait qu’Hannibal, avant le Tessin,...
BMCR 2010.10.07Brill’s Companion to Silius Italicus
Antony Augoustakis / Brill, 2009
...heroic model for both Hannibal and Scipio. Unfortunately, he confines his evaluation of Hannibal’s success in emulating Hercules to the first two books; for in later books, Hannibal repeatedly fails...
BMCR 2015.09.40Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War. Ancient warfare and civilization
Dexter Hoyos / Oxford University Press, 2015
...the inexplicable delay of Hannibal’s brother Hasdrubal in bringing reinforcements from Spain, which could have turned the tide for Hannibal (115, 145, 151, 154, 170, 179, 196, 223). The military...
BMCR 2023.03.10Silius Italicus and the tradition of the Roman historical epos
Antony Augoustakis, Marco Fucecchi / Brill, 2022
...to Hannibal. Silius’ Hannibal (Book 3, the crossing of the Alps) becomes thus the third element in the equation, showing how “both Petronius’ Caesar and Silius Italicus’ Hannibal should be...
BMCR 1997.03.011997.03.01, The Second Punic War: A Reappraisal. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 67
Tim Cornell, N. B. Rankov, Philip A. G. Sabin / Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 1996
...not know what to do with his victory. Lazenby takes issue with this, in his thoughtful essay on Hannibal’s strategy. In his view, Hannibal recognized that the war could only...
BMCR 2015.05.12Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic
Antony Augoustakis / Oxford University Press, 2013
...surrounds Hannibal and his forces as well as characterizing connections to gigantomachy; and finally, Hannibal’s seemingly sacrilegious subversion of Roman triumphal sacrifice. Littlewood also comments on the contrastive imagery of...
BMCR 2014.01.53Die Wohltaten der Götter: König Eumenes II. und die Figuren am großen Fries des Pergamonaltars verrätselt – enträtselt
Barbara Demandt / Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2013
...cases: Hannibal, “who had no successor” (p. 98), was slightly less encoded than the others. As referenced above, Hannibal is struck down by Klotho/Nyx and, is, Demandt deduces, fairly easily...