Stocks argues that Silius’s Hannibal is not just a foreign villain, but a "Romanized" figure who paradoxically exemplifies (Roman-ness).
For those looking to read the epic itself, a modern English translation of all 17 books by Antony Augoustakis and Neil W. Bernstein is available at Routledge . Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus' 'Punica' The roman Hannibal: remembering the enemy in Si...
The poem often enters Hannibal's perspective, showing him as a man striving to build an eternal legacy. Stocks argues that Silius’s Hannibal is not just