Brill's companion to Statius / edited by W. J. Dominik, C. E. Newlands, and K. Gervais.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dominik, William J., editor.

Newlands, Carole Elizabeth, editor.

Gervais, Kyle, editor.

Series:

Brill's companions in classical studies.

Brill's Companions in Classical Studies, 1872-3357

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)--Criticism and interpretation.

Statius, P. Papinius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (722 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 fundamental issues and themes of his poetry, and suggest new fruitful areas for research. All of his works are considered: the Thebaid , his longest extant epic; the Achilleid , his unfinished epic; and the Silvae , his collected short poetry. Particular themes explored include the social, cultural, and political issues surrounding his poetry; his controversial aesthetic; the influence of his predecessors upon his poetry; and the scholarly and literary reception of his poetry in subsequent ages to the present.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28470-2

OCLC:

906026016

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004284708 DOI