Statius' Silvae are argued in this book to be important social and literary productions. Traditionally derided as occasional and therefore inconsequential verse, they offer fascinating insight into the history, politics, art and literature of the Flavian period. They celebrate and explore in all its variety and ambiguity a flourishing literary and artistic culture which the condemnation of Domitian's memory after his assassination had largely suppressed. They deserve consideration for what they reveal about the role of poetry and patronage in imperial society as well as about imperial art and architecture.
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"Newland's approach--honed from her ^Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti" in which she tackled Ovid's combiniation of poetic narrative and national encomium--will provoke a new and to some degree sythetic phase in this movement.... Anyone interested in Flavian interested in Flavian poetry should consult this book, which is recommended for upper-division underground, graduate, and research collections." Choice
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Statius' Silvae are argued in this book to be important social and literary productions. Traditionally derided as occasional and therefore inconsequential verse, they offer fascinating insight into the history, politics, art and literature of the Flavian period. They celebrate and explore in all its variety and ambiguity a flourishing literary and artistic culture which the condemnation of Domitian's memory after his assassination had largely suppressed. They deserve consideration for what they reveal about the role of poetry and patronage in imperial society as well as about imperial art and architecture.
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This book about Statius' Silvae, a diverse collection of poems of praise, sets out to make large claims about Statius' 'lesser poems of later growth'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
villa poems, imperial pastoral, imperial praise, seventeenth consulship, divine ideology, salutary anxiety, encomiastic speech, privileged visibility, aristocratic pastoral, villa landscape, foedus amicitiae, imperial panegyric, imperial poet, aula regia, locus amoenus, poetic excess, miniature statue, architectural display, ideal landscape, imperial banquet, pastoral dream, imperial fiction, imperial image, mortal limits, imperial highway Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Claudius Etruscus, Van Dam, Bay of Naples, Pollius Felix, Golden Age, Calpurnius Siculus, Dio Cass, Domitian's Rome, Julius Caesar, Ara Pacis, Rutilius Gallicus, Via Domitiana, Forum Transitorium, Flavian Rome, Jupiter Tonans, Silvae Statius, Horace's Tibur, Pliny the Elder, Secular Games, Silius Italicus, Arch of Titus, Capitoline Jupiter, Coma Berenices, Cumaean Sibyl, Flavius Clemens New!
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This book about Statius' Silvae, a diverse collection of poems of praise, sets out to make large claims about Statius' 'lesser poems of later growth'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
villa poems, imperial pastoral, imperial praise, seventeenth consulship, divine ideology, salutary anxiety, encomiastic speech, privileged visibility, aristocratic pastoral, villa landscape, foedus amicitiae, imperial panegyric, imperial poet, aula regia, locus amoenus, poetic excess, miniature statue, architectural display, ideal landscape, imperial banquet, pastoral dream, imperial fiction, imperial image, mortal limits, imperial highway Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Claudius Etruscus, Van Dam, Bay of Naples, Pollius Felix, Golden Age, Calpurnius Siculus, Dio Cass, Domitian's Rome, Julius Caesar, Ara Pacis, Rutilius Gallicus, Via Domitiana, Forum Transitorium, Flavian Rome, Jupiter Tonans, Silvae Statius, Horace's Tibur, Pliny the Elder, Secular Games, Silius Italicus, Arch of Titus, Capitoline Jupiter, Coma Berenices, Cumaean Sibyl, Flavius Clemens New!
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- Julius Caesar (Literature Made Easy) by Ruth Coleman on page 74, and page 314
- Calpurnius Siculus: The Eclogues (Classic Latin & Greek Texts in Paperback S.) by C.H. Keene on page 143, and Back Matter
- Domitian: Tragic Tyrant by Pat Southern in Back Matter
- Festivals and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic (Aspects of Greek and Roman life) by H. H. Scullard in Back Matter
- Ritual Process, The: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner in Back Matter
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- Medieval Paradigms, Volume 1: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams (The New Middle Ages) (v. 1) by Stephanie Hayes-Healy on page 96
- Statius Silvae 5 (Oxford Classical Monographs) (Bk. 5) by Bruce Gibson in Back Matter
- Statius: Silvae (Loeb Classical Library No. 206) (Vol. 1) (English and Latin Edition) by Statius in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Philip Hardie in Front Matter
- Ovid's Fasti: Historical Readings at Its Bimillennium by Geraldine Herbert-Brown in Front Matter
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