#the army of ghosts is Also in the punica. btw.

[catilinas]

second punic war historical fiction pov character anna As In, Dido's Sister From The Aeneid Who Was Going To Maybe Be Murdered By Lavinia And Turned Into A River About It, assimilated into the roman goddess anna perenna (there's a cool motif about circular narratives in there. like we Are trapped in meanings that circulate like blood). in silius italicus' punica she helps out hannibal or something. Elaborate On That. (and it Needs to get weird about time + epic narrative in a laviniacore way.) the other pov character is iuturna As In, Turnus' Unwillingly Immortal Sister From The Aeneid Who Was Also A River Goddess. altar in the forum romanum despite her spending the whole aeneid on the side of the war that Lost to aeneas. And They Are Lesbians. turnus has always been hannibalcoded we Know this. did you know turnus and dido are also parallels and also Cousins. the potential for evil mimetic haunted sibling relationships is almost infinite. we are trapped in meanings that circulate like blood! second punic war is the main event but if it gets weird and nonlinear i think polybius should be there also. in what is very clearly a hostage situation. also hannibal is being pursued by an army of ghosts or something idk