General Index

GENERAL INDEX

This general index provides references to many of the ancient persons, places, and texts mentioned or quoted in the chapters. This index is selective in references to Silius Italicus, the Second Punic War, Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, the Romans, and the Carthaginians, about whom discussion can be found in each and every essay of this volume.

Acastus: 385–86 Agylleus: 169 Acestes: 13, 61, 166 Alberti, Leon Battista: 407 Achates: 329 Intercenales: 404–5 Acheron: 110, 122 Alcibiades Achilles: 166, 355, 368 (see under Nicias) µῆνις of: 217 Alcmena, Alcmene: 123, 190, 203 shield of: 84, 88, 282 Alcon: 417 (see also Alexander the Great, Alexander the Great: 356 Hannibal, Pyrrhus, Scipio and Achilles: 206–7 Africanus, Turnus) as model for Scipio: 17, 123, 152, Acilius: 58 204–8, 386 Actium: 86, 88, 356 campaigns of: 33 Adherbal: 304 in Livy: 34, 324 Admetus: 172 (see also Hannibal, Scipio Adrastus: 161, 166–67 Africanus) Aeetes: 330, 381 Alexandrian poetry Aegates Islands “Alexandrian footnote”: 157, 165, (see under Punic Wars) 281 Aeneadae: 120, 205, 347, 372, 380 Allecto: 110, 116, 122, 179 Aeneas: 85, 166, 193–94, 342 allies and Augustus: 125 foederati: 396 as Hercules: 125 socii: 396 as Paris: 254 allusion(s), allusio as viewer: 89–90 in Silius’ Punica descent from Jupiter: 124 to Lucan: 15, 127–53 perﬁ dia of: 94 to Silius’ epic predecessors: 11 pietas of: 337, 379, 387 to Statius: 15, 155–76 responsibility for Dido’s death: 93 to Thucydides: 41 shield of: 84, 279, 282 to Virgil: 73–126 storm: 101, 298 inter-allusion: 157 (see also Dido, Fabius Maximus, oblique: 157 Hannibal, Romanity, Scipio use of term in the Renaissance: 416 Africanus, Silius Italicus, Venus) (see also intertextuality) Aeschylus: 356 Aloidae: 112 Persians: 357 (see also Otus, Ephialtes) Seven against Thebes: 155, 284, 291 Alorcus: 417 aetiology, aition: 180, 185, 349–50 Alpheus: 65 Aetna, poem: 66 Alps Africa: 56, 141, 221, 286, 355, 388 Hannibal’s crossing of: 8, 77, 185, Agamemnon: 166, 348 288, 319, 418 Agenor: 78, 323, 362 Hasdrubal’s crossing of: 291 Agylle: 364–65 Hercules’ crossing of: 182 474 general index

Amata: 371 Appian: 12, 28, 30,44 Amazons: 367–68 Apulia: 56 (see also Asbyte, Camilla, Penthesilea) Araxes: 126 Amphiaraus: 170, 172–73 Archeptolemus: 329 amphidromic point: 321 Archidamus: 37 Amphion: 312 Archimedes: 237, 299–300, 302 Amphitryon: 184, 190 Ardea: 180, 390, 393 Amulius: 254 Ἀρετή: 125, 189, 387 analepsis (see also Hercules, Κακία, Prodicus, internal: 20 Scipio Africanus, Voluptas, external: 20, 284 Xenophon) anaphora: 242 Arethusa: 64–65 anastrophe: 249 Argia: 161 Anath Argo: 313 child- and human sacriﬁ ce: 359 Argos: 331 (see also Juno, Tanit) Ariadne: 355 ancestors Ariminum: 50, 130, 144 as exempla: 380 Arion, bard: 312–13 Anchises: 102, 118, 120, 204, 234, 350, Arion, horse: 170, 175 387 aristeia, aristeiai: 32 games for: 61, 159, 336 of Asbyte: 365–69 androcentrism: 372 of Fabius: 227 Anna (Perenna): 14, 371 of Paulus: 342 apotheosis of: 241, 365 of Scaeva: 331 in Ovid: 91–92 Aristotle, Aristotelian: 299 in Silius: 91–96, 228, 241–43, 260, neo-Aristotelean: 193 365–66, 443–44 Artemis paradoxical status of: 93 cult in Tauris: 371 (see also Dido, Juno) (see also Diana) Annalists, annalistic tradition Asbyte: 365–69, 372 and Silius: 12, 30 (see also aristeia) in later authors: 28 Ascanius: 234, 380 (see also Cincius Alimentus, Coelius Asilus: 237 Antipater, Fabius Pictor, Valerius Assaracus: 254 Antias) Astapa: 44 Anonymus A: 404 Astarte: 359, 361 Antaeus: 286 (see also Juno, Tanit) Antigone: 161 Atalanta: 164 Antilochus: 172, 175 Athena Antiochus, king: 42 (see under Minerva) Antiochus, of Syracuse: 61 athletic contests Antiphates: 59 (see under games) antithesis: 267, 274, 335 Atlantic, ocean Antony, Marc: 355 tides of: 294–306, 349 (see also Augustus) Atlas: 172, 175 Apennines Augustus: 35, 86, 88, 204 Hannibal’s crossing of: 361 as triumphator: 213, 443 Aphrodite: 327–28 in Virgil: 17 (see also Venus) propaganda against Antony: 356 Apollo: 172, 329 (see also Aeneas, Octavian, Scipio Apollonius, of Rhodes: 301, 328 Africanus) aporia: 298 autochthony: 59 aposiopesis: 249 Autonoë: 114–15, 118, 120 apostrophe: 309 Avernus: 109