Brill's Companion to StatiusWilliam J. Dominik, Carole E. Newlands, Kyle Gervais 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
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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Common terms and phrases
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