Brill's companion to Statius /

Brill's companion to Statius /

Brill's Companion to Statius is the first companion volume to be published on arguably the most important Roman poet of the Flavian period. Thirty-four newly commissioned chapters from international experts provide a comprehensive overview of recent approaches to Statius, discuss the fundamenta...

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Other Authors: Dominik, William J., Newlands, Carole Elizabeth., Gervais, Kyle.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online II, ISBN: 9789004284869.

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Statius, P. Papinius > (Publius Papinius) > Criticism and interpretation.
Statius, P. Papinius > (Publius Papinius)
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Call Number: PA6698 .B75 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Reading Statius /
  • Carole E. Newlands , Kyle Gervais and William J. Dominik
  • 2 Statius on Invocation and Inspiration /
  • K. Sara Myers
  • 3 The Silvae: Poetics of Impromptu and Cultural Consumption /
  • Gianpiero Rosati
  • 4 The Beginnings of the Achilleid /
  • Randall T. Ganiban
  • 5 Creating the Distinguished Addressee: Literary Patronage in the Works of Statius /
  • Meike Rühl
  • 6 Gift and Society in the Works of Statius /
  • Neil Coffee
  • 7 Negative Stereotypes of Wealth in the Works of Statius /
  • Bruce Gibson
  • 8 Family and Kinship in the Works of Statius /
  • Neil W. Bernstein
  • 9 Statius' Achilleid: The Paradoxical Epic /
  • Peter J. Davis
  • 10 Intertext, Metapoetry, and Visuality in the Achilleid /
  • Christopher Chinn
  • 11 Similes and Gender in the Achilleid /
  • Charles McNelis
  • 12 "War Came in Disarray . . ." (Thebaid 7.616): Statius and the Depiction of Battle /
  • Rhiannon Ash
  • 13 Parent-Child Conflict in the Thebaid /
  • Kyle Gervais
  • 14 Transgressing Boundaries of the Unthinkable: Sophocles, Ovid, Vergil, Seneca, and Homer Refracted in Statius' Thebaid /
  • Frederick Ahl
  • 15 Similes and Their Programmatic Role in the Thebaid /
  • William J. Dominik
  • 16 The Constitutional Status of Euripidean and Statian Theseus: Some Aspects of the Criticism of Absolute Power in the Thebaid /
  • Cecilia Criado
  • 17 Dead Woman Walking: Jocasta in the Thebaid /
  • Jessica S. Dietrich
  • 18 Statius' Epic Poetry: A Challenge to the Literary Past /
  • Laura Micozzi
  • 19 Statius' Thebaid and Greek Tragedy: The Legacy of Thebes /
  • Agis Marinis
  • 20 Georgics 2.497 and Thebaid 1.19-20: Allusion and Inspiration /
  • Victoria E. Pagán
  • 21 Statius and Senecan Drama /
  • Antony Augoustakis
  • 22 Lucan's De Bello Civili in the Thebaid /
  • Paul Roche
  • 23 Following after Valerius: Argonautic Imagery in the Thebaid /
  • Helen Lovatt
  • 24 Statius and Silius Italicus /
  • François Ripoll
  • 25 Statius and Martial: Post-vatic Self-fashioning in Flavian Rome /
  • Luke Roman
  • 26 Reading Statius Through a Biographical Lens /
  • Ruth Parkes
  • 27 Papinius Noster: Statius in Roman Late Antiquity /
  • Helen Kaufmann
  • 28 Medieval Statius: Belatedness and Authority /
  • Robert R. Edwards
  • 29 Statius in Dante's Commedia /
  • Peter Heslin
  • 30 The Thebaid in Italian Renaissance Epic: The Case of Capaneus /
  • Pramit Chaudhuri
  • 31 Early Modern Thebaid: The Latin Commentary Tradition /
  • Valéry Berlincourt
  • 32 Statian Recusatio: Angelo Poliziano and John Dryden /
  • Dustin Mengelkoch
  • 33 Naturalizing Statius /
  • Susanna Braund
  • 34 Statius in an Ideological Climate /
  • Carole E. Newlands
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum.