Silius Italicus, nama lengkap Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus[1] (Latin: [ˈsiːlijʊs ɪˈt̪alɪkʊs], skt. 26 – skt. 101 M), merupakan seorang Konsul Romawi, orator dan wiracarita Latin Klasik. Karyanya yang masih ada merupakan sebuah buku abad ke-17 yang berjudul Punica, yang adalah sebuah epik puisi tentang Perang Punisia Kedua dan puisi terpanjang yang ada dalam bahasa Latin lebih dari 12.000 baris.

Silius Italicus

Referensi

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  1. ^ "Silius Italicus". Encyclopædia Britannica. 

Bacaan selanjutnya

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  • Augoustakis, Antony. 2010. Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
  • Augoustakis, Antony. 2008. "The Other as Same: Non-Roman Mothers in Silius Italicus' Punica," Classical Philology 103.1:55–76.
  • Dominik, William J. 2010. The Reception of Silius Italicus in Modern Scholarship. In Brill’s Companion to Silius Italicus. Edited by Antony Augoustakis, 425–447. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
  • Keith, Alison M. 2010. "Engendering Orientalism in Silius’ Punica." In Brill’s Companion to Silius Italicus. Edited by Antony Augoustakis, 355–373. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
  • Marks, Raymond. 2005. From Republic to Empire. Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
  • Marks, Raymond. 2010. "The Song and the Sword: Silius’ Punica and the Crisis of Early Imperial Epic." In Epic and History. Edited by David Kostan and Kurt Raaflaub, 185–211. Malden, MA: Wiley.
  • Santini, Carlo. 1991. Silius Italicus and his View of the Past. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben.
  • Stocks, Claire. 2014. The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus’ 'Punica'. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
  • Tipping, Benjamin. 2010. Exemplary Epic: Silius Italicus’ Punica. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

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