Silius Italicus, nama lengkap Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (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.
Referensi sunting
- "Silius Italicus". Encyclopædia Britannica.
Bacaan selanjutnya sunting
- 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.
Pranala luar sunting
- Reid, James Smith (1911). "Silius Italicus". Dalam Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica. 25 (edisi ke-11). Cambridge University Press. hlm. 95–96.
- Karya Silius Italicus di Project Gutenberg
- Karya oleh/tentang Silius Italicus di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta)
- Works by Silius Italicus at Perseus Digital Library
- Punicorum Libri Septemdecim (dalam bahasa Latin)
- Entry by von Albrecht on Silius Italicus
- Links to translation of Silius Italicus by J.D.Duff
- Duff's English translation of Punica as clean html with tagged, geolocated place names, in ToposText