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Literary Allusion and Unity of Thought in the Description of Hannibal's Shield in Punica 2.403–452
- Phoenix
- Classical Association of Canada
- Volume 70, Number 3-4, Fall-automne/Winter-hiver 2016
- pp. 302-316
- 10.1353/phx.2016.0035
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
In the ecphrasis of Hannibal's shield in Punica 2.403–452 allusions to Vergil's ethnographical excursus on Libya in Georgics 3.339–348 and the Laudes Italiae (G. 2.118–176) subvert the ostensibly idyllic picture of the Punic countryside, thus reinforcing the dichotomy between the perspectives of the internal viewer, Hannibal, and the Roman narrator.
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