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- Title
„Die schönste griechische Stadt". Syrakus bei Cicero und Silius Italicus.
- Authors
Schwameis, Christoph
- Abstract
Both in the fourth book of Cicero's De signis (Verr. 2,4) and in the fourteenth book of Silius Italicus' Punica, there are descriptions of the city of Syracuse at important points of the texts. In this paper, both descriptions are combined and for the first time thoroughly related. I discuss form and content of the accounts, show their functions in their oratorical and epic contexts and consider their similarities. The most important facets, where the descriptions coincide in, seem to be their link to Marcellus' conquest in the Second Punic War, the resulting precarious beauty of the city and the specifically Roman perspective on which these ekphraseis are based.
- Subjects
SYRACUSE (Italy); RESEMBLANCE (Philosophy); PERSONAL beauty; ROMANS
- Publication
Millennium Yearbook / Millennium -- Jahrbuch, 2020, Vol 17, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
1867-030X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/mill-2020-0003