Brill's companion to Statius
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Brill's companion to Statius
(Brill's companions in classical studies)
Brill, c2015
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Bibliography: p. [613]-673
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Texts and Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
part 1 - Introduction
1 Reading Statius
Carole E. Newlands, Kyle Gervais, and William J. Dominik
part 2 - Beginnings
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
part 3 - Social and Cultural Matters
5 Creating the Distinguished Addressee: Literary Patronage in the Works of Statius
Meike Ruhl
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
part 4 - Transgressive Poetics: The Achilleid
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
part 5 - Conflict, Power, and Death in the Thebaid
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
part 6 - Predecessors and Contemporaries
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. Pagan
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
Francois Ripoll
25 Statius and Martial: Post-vatic Self-fashioning in Flavian Rome
Luke Roman
part 7 - Reception
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
Valery 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
General Index
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