Brill's companion to Statius / / edited by W. J. Dominik, C. E. Newlands, and K. Gervais.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions in Classical Studies,
• TeilnehmendeR: Dominik, William J.,; Newlands, Carole Elizabeth,; Gervais, Kyle,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions in classical studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (722 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; 1 Reading Statius /; 2 Statius on Invocation and Inspiration /; 3 The Silvae: Poetics of Impromptu and Cultural Consumption /; 4 The Beginnings of the Achilleid /; 5 Creating the Distinguished Addressee: Literary Patronage in the Works of Statius /; 6 Gift and Society in the Works of Statius /; 7 Negative Stereotypes of Wealth in the Works of Statius /; 8 Family and Kinship in the Works of Statius /; 9 Statius’ Achilleid: The Paradoxical Epic /; 10 Intertext, Metapoetry, and Visuality in the Achilleid /; 11 Similes and Gender in the Achilleid /; 12 “War Came in Disarray . . .” (Thebaid 7.616): Statius and the Depiction of Battle /; 13 Parent-Child Conflict in the Thebaid /; 14 Transgressing Boundaries of the Unthinkable: Sophocles, Ovid, Vergil, Seneca, and Homer Refracted in Statius’ Thebaid /; 15 Similes and Their Programmatic Role in the Thebaid /; 16 The Constitutional Status of Euripidean and Statian Theseus: Some Aspects of the Criticism of Absolute Power in the Thebaid /; 17 Dead Woman Walking: Jocasta in the Thebaid /; 18 Statius’ Epic Poetry: A Challenge to the Literary Past /; 19 Statius’ Thebaid and Greek Tragedy: The Legacy of Thebes /; 20 Georgics 2.497 and Thebaid 1.19–20: Allusion and Inspiration /; 21 Statius and Senecan Drama /; 22 Lucan’s De Bello Civili in the Thebaid /; 23 Following after Valerius: Argonautic Imagery in the Thebaid /; 24 Statius and Silius Italicus /; 25 Statius and Martial: Post-vatic Self-fashioning in Flavian Rome /; 26 Reading Statius Through a Biographical Lens /; 27 Papinius Noster: Statius in Roman Late Antiquity /; 28 Medieval Statius: Belatedness and Authority /; 29 Statius in Dante’s Commedia /; 30 The Thebaid in Italian Renaissance Epic: The Case of Capaneus /; 31 Early Modern Thebaid: The Latin Commentary Tradition /; 32 Statian Recusatio: Angelo Poliziano and John Dryden /; 33 Naturalizing Statius /; 34 Statius in an Ideological Climate /; Bibliography --; Index Locorum.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004284702
• ISSN: 1872-3357
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by W. J. Dominik, C. E. Newlands, and K. 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.