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Journal Article
Early Roman Epic and the Maritime Moment
2010
Overview
In 264 B.C.E. Roman forces under the command of the consul Appius Claudius crossed the Strait of Messina and entered Sicily. The historian Florus notes that these straits were not just marked by the violence of their waters but were also notorious for the mythical monsters to which they played host. Eleven years later, the consuls Gnaeus Servilius and Gaius Sempronius were conducting naval operations off the coast of Libya and in the region of the Lesser Syrtis when they found themselves grounded on the island of Meninx. According to Polybius, Meninx was formerly the land of the Lotus-Eaters. Here, Leigh examines this pattern, to engage with what it meant for Rome suddenly to transform itself into a naval power, and to ask how this relates to the development of Roman epic verse in the Odusia of Livius Andronicus and the Bellum Punicum of Naevius.
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University of Chicago Press,University of Chicago, acting through its Press
