Brill's Companion to StatiusWilliam J. Dominik, Carole E. Newlands, Kyle Gervais 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. |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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