# Punica

**Author(s):** Tiberius Catius Silius Italicus
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**Genres:** military-history, poetry
**Publisher:** In aedibus B. G. Teubneri
**Published:** Wed Jan 01 1890 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/punica

## Description

Rediscovered in either 1416 0r 1417, the Punica is a Latin epic poem in seventeen books in dactylic hexameter written by Silius Italicus comprising some twelve thousand lines. As the longest surviving Latin poem from antiquity, its theme is the Second Punic War and the conflict between the two generals Hannibal and Scipio Africanus.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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