Clarke, JacquelineDavis, PeterLee, Janice Maree2018-07-262018-07-262017http://hdl.handle.net/2440/113421This thesis is a detailed commentary on the eighth book of Silius Italicus’ epic poem the Punica, lines 1-241. The text that is discussed includes the encounter, engineered by Juno, between Hannibal and the Italian nymph, Anna Perenna. The commentary follows the model of the Cambridge ‘Green and Yellow’ series and the notes mainly deal with philological and literary issues, especially those arising from the dense inter-textuality of lines 50-201 which draw heavily on Ovid’s Fasti 3. 523-656 and the Aeneid 4.393-692. The commentary proper is prefaced by an introduction that considers: (1) the nature of classical commentary as a genre; (2) the significance of the selected text in the context of the poem as a whole; (3) the disputed authenticity of 8.144-223 (the so-called Aldine additamentum). In this third part of the introduction the metrical, stylistic and linguistic differences that exist between the text of the additamentum and the rest of Punica 8 are explored and analysed, and consideration is given to the likelihood of its authorship by an Italian Humanist. The text of the Punica used is the Teubner (1987) edition of Josef Delz.Tiberius Catius Silius ItalicusPunicaLatin epic poetryAldine additamentumTheses10.25909/5b597172c68f8