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JOURNAL ARTICLE - IL PLENILUNIO DELLA BATTAGLIA DEL TICINO IN SILIO ITALICO
Patrizio Domenicucci - Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica
Nuova serie, Vol. 102, No. 3 (2012), pp. 165-182 (18 pages)
Published by: Fabrizio Serra Editore
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24645102
Abstract
In the description of sunrise in the day after the Battle of Ticinus, Silius Italicus refers to the full moon (4, 480 ff.). For this account Silius probably uses not only literary patterns, but also a lost annalistic source, that should have reported the astronomical datum of the full moon. This datum allows to fix the date of the battle on November, 28th, 218 B.C.


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