By Antony Augoustakis
This can be the 1st book-length research to reconstruct the position of ladies within the epic poems of the Flavian interval of Latin literature. Antony Augoustakis examines the function of girl characters from the point of view of Julia Kristeva's theories on international otherness and motherhood to underscore the on-going negotiation among similar and different within the Roman literary mind's eye as a telling mirrored image at the building of Roman id and of gender and cultural hierarchies.
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And Silius chooses Marcia as the primary author of her husband’s subversive portrait, a woman who deconstructs and suspends the androcentric narrative of Marus, before being relegated to her marginal space in the periphery Introduction: Other and Same 27 of the narrative, as her voice is silenced by the oars of the boat that takes Regulus back to Carthage. As I have noted before, in this instance also, Marcia’s motherhood becomes the locus for the expansion of her otherhood and alienation from the patria, the fatherland as traditionally represented by the men in her household.
28 But why not? She was telling me how she saved her father by cunning and kept her hands innocent. In reality, Eurydice herself has fallen prey to Hypsipyle’s mesmerising narrative of saving Thoas as well, a story able to halt an army from its decided (fated) destination, as if the bereft mother attended Hypsipyle’s ‘lecture’ of the Lemnian massacre once upon a time. To be sure, Hypsipyle has rehearsed the script many a time in the past! In her tirade, Eurydice blurs the boundaries between filial piety and motherhood, by underscoring Hypsipyle’s asymbolia in both.
And yet until the very end of the poem, Hannibal is portrayed as utterly confused, displaying uncharacteristic attachment to the Italian tellus, which nevertheless endeavours to expel and reject him from her body. Hannibal becomes asymbolic, in Kristevan terms, the foreigner that cannot be absorbed by the centre, the other that cannot become same. Alienation from one’s patria is also evident in Rome’s allied cities, especially Saguntum. A closer look at the construction of the second book, however, elucidates Silius’ organisational strategy of this miniepic around transgressive women.