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.

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

Preliminary Material -- 1 Reading Statius / Carole E. Newlands , Kyle Gervais and William J. Dominik -- 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 -- 5 Creating the Distinguished Addressee: Literary Patronage in the Works of Statius / Meike Rühl -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. Pagán -- 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 / François Ripoll -- 25 Statius and Martial: Post-vatic Self-fashioning in Flavian Rome / Luke Roman -- 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 / Valéry 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.