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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2019
Chapter 6 investigates funeral rites in Silius’ Punica with special focus on the figure of Hannibal. The chapter’s interest concerns the Carthaginian leader’s perversions of Roman funeral practice when he conducts rites over the corpses of three slain Roman generals (L. Aemilius Paulus, T. Sempronius Gracchus, and M. Claudius Marcellus). This analysis sets the stage for an examination of Hannibal’s quasi-funeral rites that close the poem in book 17, mimicking and masking the triumphal parade for Scipio Africanus that simultaneously doubles as a funeral parade. The chapter closes by considering the role of the civil wars following the death of Nero in 68 CE, in particular importance for Silius of the burning of the Capitol and the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus.
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