The Poetry of Statius (Mnemosyne, Supplements) by Johannes J. L. Smolenaars, Harm-jan Van Dam, Ruurd R. Nauta

By Johannes J. L. Smolenaars, Harm-jan Van Dam, Ruurd R. Nauta

The Roman poet P. Papinius Statius (ca. 45-96) is the writer of 2 epics (the "Thebaid" and the incomplete "Achilleid") and a wide corpus of occasional verse ("Silvae"). This poetry, lengthy visible as spinoff or decadent, is more and more liked for the bold and originality of its responses either to the Greek and Latin literary culture and to the modern Roman global. This quantity deals the papers brought at a symposium on Statius (Amsterdam 2005) via prime students within the box from Europe and North the USA. those papers reveal the fascination of Statius' poetry because of the poet's huge wisdom of Greek and Latin tragedy, his quick narrative, mental acumen, excellent eulogies, and pessimistic perspectives on gods and males. the focal point of the gathering is on literary strategy within the "Thebaid", on socio-historical facets of the "Silvae", and at the reception of Statius in eu literature and scholarship.

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49 This speech is delivered by the rivergod Volturnus himself, leaning against an arch of the new bridge and employing prayer-formulae very similar to those employed by Hercules when he addresses Pollius Felix on the threshold of his temple. In the case of the rivergod we encounter one of Statius’ rare allusions to writing and, specifically, to an inscription, when Volturnus tells Domitian how the emperor will be rendered on the bridge, as maximus arbiter and uictor perpetuus of the riverbank, although the ambiguity of the verb is masterful: he will 49 Trans.

1–4) ed. -W. Rinn, 2 (Silv. 5, Theb. -L. Achaintre, 3–4 (Theb. L. Boutteville] [Frankfurt 1833 (Weber)] Corpus poetarum latinorum uno volumine absolutum cum selecta varietate lectionis et explicatione brevissima edidit Guilielmus Ernestus Weber, Francofurti ad Moenum, sumptimbus et typis Henrici Ludovici Broenneri. [Paris 1835–6 (Dübner)] Publii Papinii Statii Opera quae exstant cum notis aliorum et suis edidit Fr. Dubner, Parisiis, excudit C. L. F. Panckoucke. STONES IN THE FOREST: EPIGRAPHIC ALLUSION IN THE SILVAE* Kathleen M.

See McKeown 1998, 144. 19 Tolman 1910, 2–3. 21 It is important to stress that epitaphs do not have a monopoly on the inscriptions embedded in Latin verse. The Heroides are a useful example to set beside the Silvae, since, although their subject-matter is mythological, their epistolary form clothes the stories in the quotidian atmosphere of the real world. To cite examples of three non-funerary types from this work: an inscription on a statue-base is represented by the titulus that Phyllis imagines carving beneath a putative statue of Demophoon (Her.

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