Brill's Companion to Statius

William J. Dominik, Carole E. Newlands, Kyle Gervais

BRILL, Mar 20, 2015 - Literary Criticism - 724 pages

In Brill’s Companion to Statius, thirty-four newly commissioned chapters from internationally recognized experts provide a comprehensive overview of various approaches to arguably the most important poet of the Flavian period in Rome.

Contents

• Chapter 1 Reading Statius: 3
• Part 2 Beginnings: 29
• Chapter 2 Statius on Invocation and Inspiration: 31
• Poetics of Impromptu and Cultural Consumption: 54
• Chapter 4 The Beginnings of the Achilleid: 73
• Part 3 Social and Cultural Matters: 89
• Literary Patronage in the Works of Statius: 91
• Chapter 6 Gift and Society in the Works of Statius: 106
• Chapter 7 Negative Stereotypes of Wealth in the Works of Statius: 123
• Chapter 8 Family and Kinship in the Works of Statius: 139
• The Achilleid: 155
• The Paradoxical Epic: 157
• Chapter 10 Intertext Metapoetry and Visuality in the Achilleid: 173
• Chapter 11 Similes and Gender in the Achilleid: 189
• Part 5 Conflict Power and Death in the Thebaid: 205
• Statius and the Depiction of Battle: 207
• Chapter 13 ParentChild Conflict in the Thebaid: 221
• Sophocles Ovid Vergil Seneca and Homer Refracted in Statius Thebaid: 240
• Chapter 15 Similes and Their Programmatic Role in the Thebaid: 266
• Some Aspects of the Criticism of Absolute Power in the Thebaid: 291
• Jocasta in the Thebaid: 307
• Part 6 Predecessors and Contemporaries: 323
• A Challenge to the Literary Past: 325
• The Legacy of Thebes: 343
• Allusion and Inspiration: 362
• Chapter 21 Statius and Senecan Drama: 377
• Chapter 22 Lucans De Bello Civili in the Thebaid: 393
• Argonautic Imagery in the Thebaid: 408
• Chapter 24 Statius and Silius Italicus: 425
• Postvatic Selffashioning in Flavian Rome: 444
• Part 7 Reception: 463
• Chapter 26 Reading Statius Through a Biographical Lens: 465
• Statius in Roman Late Antiquity: 481
• Belatedness and Authority: 497
• Chapter 29 Statius in Dantes Commedia: 512
• The Case of Capaneus: 527
• The Latin Commentary Tradition: 543
• Angelo Poliziano and John Dryden: 562
• Chapter 33 Naturalizing Statius: 579
• Chapter 34 Statius in an Ideological Climate: 600
• Bibliography: 613
• Index Locorum: 674
• General Index: 688

About the author

W. J. Dominik, Ph.D. (1989) in Classics, Monash University, Australia, is Professor of Classics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has published extensively on Roman literature and rhetoric, especially of the Flavian era, the classical tradition, and lexicography. C. E. Newlands, Ph.D. (1984) in Comparative Literature and Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley, is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She recently published "Silvae: Book II" (2011) and "Statius: Between Rome and Naples" (2012). K. Gervais, Ph.D. (2013) in Classics at the University of Otago, New Zealand, is preparing a commentary on Statius "Thebaid" 2. He has a particular interest in Roman violence, and has also published on Horace, textual criticism, and the films of Quentin Tarantino. Contributors: Frederick Ahl, Rhiannon Ash, Antony Augoustakis, Valery Berlincourt, Neil W. Bernstein, Susanna Braund, Pramit Chaudhuri, Christopher Chinn, Neil Coffee, Cecilia Criado, P. J. Davis, Jessica Dietrich, William J. Dominik, Robert R. Edwards, Randall T. Ganiban, Kyle Gervais, Bruce Gibson, Peter Heslin, Helen Kaufmann, Helen Lovatt, Agis Marinis, Charles McNelis, Dustin Mengelkoch, Laura Micozzi, K. Sara Myers, Carole E. Newlands, Victoria E. Pagan, Ruth Parkes, Francois Ripoll, Paul Roche, Luke Roman, Gianpiero Rosati, Meike Ruhl.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Brill's Companion to Statius; Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
• Editors: William J. Dominik, Carole E. Newlands, Kyle Gervais
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: BRILL, 2015
• ISBN: 9004284702, 9789004284708
• Length: 724 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical; Literary Criticism / Medieval