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Title The poetry of Statius / edited by Johannes J.L. Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam, Ruurd R. Nauta
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 269 pages)
Series Mnemosyne supplements, 0169-8958 ; volume 306. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 306.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; 306.
Contents 'In pondere non magno satis ponderosae ... ': Gronovius and the printed tradition of the Thebaid / Valéry Berlincourt -- Stones in the forest : epigraphic allusion in the Silvae / Kathleen M. Coleman -- Wandering woods again : from Poliziano to Grotius / Harm-Jan van Dam -- The equine cuckoo : Statius' Ecus Maximus Domitiani Imperatoris and the Flavian Forum / Michael Dewar -- Battle narrative in Statius, Thebaid / Bruce Gibson -- Statius and the Greek tragedians on Athens, Thebes and Rome / P.J. Heslin -- Jupiter in Thebaid 1 again / D.E. Hill -- Statius in the Silvae / Ruurd R. Nauta -- Statius, Domitian and acknowledging paternity : rituals of succession in the Thebaid / Gianpiero Rosati -- Dust, water and sweat : the Statian puer between charm and weakness, play and war / Lorenzo Sanna -- Statius Thebaid 1.72 : is Jocasta dead or alive? The tradition of Jocasta's suicide in Greek and Roman drama and in Statius' Thebaid / Johannes J.L. Smolenaars
Summary The Roman poet P Papinius Statius (ca 45-96) is the author of two epics (the "Thebaid" and the unfinished "Achilleid") and a large corpus of occasional verse ("Silvae"). This volume offers the papers delivered at a symposium on Statius by leading scholars in the field from Europe and North America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and indexes
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Subject Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius) -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius) fast
Statius, Publius Papinius 45-96 gnd
Statius, Publius Papinius, approximately 45-approximately 96 e.Kr -- analys och tolkning. sao
Statius, Publius Papinius. swd
Subject Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Epic poetry, Latin
Gedichten.
Latijn.
Amsterdam <2005>
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Congressen (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Smolenaars, Johannes Jacobus Louis, editor.
Dam, Harm-Jan van, 1948- editor.
Nauta, Ruurd R., editor.
ISBN 9789047424659
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