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This chapter compares how the Epic poet Silius plays with the language of the speeches from Livy's historical account of the Second Punic War to suggest a new interpretation for the figure of Hercules in the poem: that Hannibal's own use of Heraclean imagery provides a subtle indication that the Emperor Domitian is a potential threat to the people of Rome similar to that seen in the Second Punic War.
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This page is a summary of: Hannibal, Hercules, and the Livian Narrators of Silius Italicus’ Punica, December 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004750227_008.
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