Author: Schwameis, Christoph
Title: « Die schönste griechische Stadt » : Syrakus bei Cicero und Silius Italicus
Review/Collection: Millennium 17(1)
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 35-53
Keywords: Histoire - Storia - History
Description: Both in the fourth book of Cicero’s De signis (Verr. 2,4) and in the fourteenth book of Silius Italicus’ Punica, there are descriptions of the city of Syracuse at important points of the texts. In this paper, both descriptions are combined and for the first time thoroughly related. I discuss form and content of the accounts, show their functions in their oratorical and epic contexts and consider their similarities. The most important facets, where the descriptions coincide in, seem to be their link to Marcellus’ conquest in the Second Punic War, the resulting precarious beauty of the city and the specifically Roman perspective on which these ekphraseis are based. [Author]
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Author initials: Schwameis 2020
Title: « Die schönste griechische Stadt » : Syrakus bei Cicero und Silius Italicus
Review/Collection: Millennium 17(1)
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 35-53
Keywords: Histoire - Storia - History
Description: Both in the fourth book of Cicero’s De signis (Verr. 2,4) and in the fourteenth book of Silius Italicus’ Punica, there are descriptions of the city of Syracuse at important points of the texts. In this paper, both descriptions are combined and for the first time thoroughly related. I discuss form and content of the accounts, show their functions in their oratorical and epic contexts and consider their similarities. The most important facets, where the descriptions coincide in, seem to be their link to Marcellus’ conquest in the Second Punic War, the resulting precarious beauty of the city and the specifically Roman perspective on which these ekphraseis are based. [Author]
Works:
Author initials: Schwameis 2020
