Statius Silvae 5

Statius Silvae 5
Author: Publius Papinius Statius
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2006-10-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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Statius and the Silvae

Statius and the Silvae
Author: Alex Hardie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1983
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Although writing in Latin, Statius (first-century AD) was, by origin and training, a Greek poet, and his collection of "occasional" poems, the Silvae, are a Roman extension of contemporary trends in Greek display poetry. No reading of the Silvae can be accurate without an understanding of this Graeco-Roman poetic milieu. This book therefore begins with a reconstruction of the professional background to the Silvae - the festival circuit, the conditions of work for writers, their opportunities for advancement in the Greek and Roman worlds - both in the Hellenistic period and in the first century A.D. In this setting, display oratory and poetry are shown to have developed in parallel and to have had a profound mutual influence. Further chapters consider Statius' performances as a Neapolitan poet at Rome, his portrayal of his own society and his friends, and his attitudes to his Latin predecessors. Literary patronage, both imperial and private, is a vital element in Statius' poetic career, and Hardie goes on to investigate the identity and social standing of the addressees of the Silvae . He also considers the career of the contemporary epigrammatist Martial in comparison to that of Statius. Many essential features of Flavian taste emerge from these studies. Large-scale interpretations of individual poems are offered throughout this volume, making many new suggestions about both points of detail and the overall significance of the major poems in the Silvae . Statius and the Silvae is an important contribution to the debate on the relationship between poetry and rhetoric, and to the understanding of how society and literature interconnected in the Flavian age.

Statius' Silvae and the Poetics of Empire

Statius' Silvae and the Poetics of Empire
Author: Carole E. Newlands
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2002-03-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139432702

Statius' Silvae, written late in the reign of Domitian (AD 81–96), are a new kind of poetry that confronts the challenge of imperial majesty or private wealth by new poetic strategies and forms. As poems of praise, they delight in poetic excess whether they honour the emperor or the poet's friends. Yet extravagant speech is also capacious speech. It functions as a strategy for conveying the wealth and grandeur of villas, statues and precious works of art as well as the complex emotions aroused by the material and political culture of empire. The Silvae are the product of a divided, self-fashioning voice. Statius was born in Naples of non-aristocratic parents. His position as outsider to the culture he celebrates gives him a unique perspective on it. The Silvae are poems of anxiety as well as praise, expressive of the tensions within the later period of Domitian's reign.

The Silvae of Statius

The Silvae of Statius
Author: Stephen Thomas Newmyer
Publisher: Brill Archive
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004058491

Nothing Ordinary Here

Nothing Ordinary Here
Author: Noelle K. Zeiner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000143686

Through a combined methodology of philology, social theory and archaeology this book offers a reinterpretation of Statius's Silvae.

The Poetry of Statius

The Poetry of Statius
Author: Johannes Jacobus Louis Smolenaars
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004171347

The Roman poet P. Papinius Statius (ca. 45-96) is the author of two epics (the "Thebaid" and the unfinished "Achilleid") and a large corpus of occasional verse ("Silvae"). This poetry, long seen as derivative or decadent, is increasingly appreciated for the daring and originality of its responses both to the Greek and Latin literary tradition and to the contemporary Roman world. This volume offers the papers delivered at a symposium on Statius (Amsterdam 2005) by leading scholars in the field from Europe and North America. These papers demonstrate the fascination of Statius' poetry on account of the poet's vast knowledge of Greek and Latin tragedy, his rapid narrative, psychological acumen, brilliant eulogies, and pessimistic views on gods and men. The focus of the collection is on literary technique in the "Thebaid," on socio-historical aspects of the "Silvae," and on the reception of Statius in European literature and scholarship.

Poetry for Patrons

Poetry for Patrons
Author: Ruurd R. Nauta
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004351140

A study of the phenomenon of literary patronage, both non-imperial and imperial, during the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian (81-96 A.D.). The central texts are the Epigrams of Martial and the Silvae of Statius.

The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius

The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius
Author: Erik Gunderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2021-08-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192653083

The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in two poets from the reign of Domitian. Gunderson offers a comprehensive overview of the Epigrams of Martial and the Siluae of Statius. The praise of power found in these texts is not something forced upon these poems, nor is it a mere appendage to these works. Instead, power and poetry as a pair are a fundamental dyad that can and should be traced throughout the two collections. It is present even when the emperor himself is not the topic of discussion. In Martial the portrait of power is constantly shifting. Poetic play takes up the topic of political power and 'plays around with it'. The initial relatively sportive attitude darkens over time. Late in the game we have ecstasies of humiliation. After Domitian dies the project tries to get back to the old games, but it cannot. Statius' Siluae merge the lies one tells to power with the lies of poetry more generally. Poetic mastery and political mastery cannot be dissociated. The glib, glitzy poetry of contemporary life articulates a radical modernism that is self-authorizing, and so complicit with a power whose structure it mirrors. What does it mean to praise praise poetry? To celebrate celebrations? Gunderson's discussion opens and closes with a meditation upon the dangers of complicit criticism and the seductions of a discourse of pure art in a world where the art is anything but pure.