In her comprehensive and scholarly study of the final book, Joy Littlewood analyses Ovid's account of the origins of the festivals of June, demonstrating that Book 6 is effectively a commemoration of Roman War, and elegantly provides a ...
In the centre of the book Hannibal commits the anti-pastoral atrocity of igniting 2000 Roman ploughing oxen to simulate a nocturnal raid based on Homer's Doloneia.
Littlewood's volume is the first full English commentary, supported by a comprehensive introduction and Latin text with full apparatus criticus, on Silius Italicus' 'Punica'.