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Description of  Ambiguities of War: A Narratological Commentary on Silius Italicus' Battle of Ticinus (Sil. 4.1-479) (Mnemosyne, Supplements: Brill's Narratological Commentaries on Ancient Texts, 463)

The book lays bare the narrative form of Silius text. It focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity due to the epics constant oscillation between fact and fiction, highlighting Roman triumph in defeat and defeat through triumph.