Statius Silvae 5 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Statius Silvae 5 write by Publius Papinius Statius. This book was released on 2006-10-05. Statius Silvae 5 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Silvae Book II
Silvae Book II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Silvae Book II write by P. Papinius Statius. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Silvae Book II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The five books of the Silvae bring together the occasional verses which Statius wrote in addition to his two epics. In these short descriptive poems Statius elaborates features taken from various genres into an original whole, in which description and eulogy play important roles. The main themes of the poems of his second book are consolation after bereavement and the contrast between nature and culture. The present work contains a general introduction, a text of Silvae II, a bibliography, and an index, together with a verse-by-verse commentary on the poems of this second book. This is the first commentary on a book of the Silvae since Vollmer's commentary on the whole of the Silvae of 1898. Emphasis is here placed on interpretation and moreover chiefly on the literary and stylistic aspects of the poems, which, compared with the epic poetry of Statius and his contemporaries, have hitherto received relatively little attention.
Statius' Silvae and the Poetics of Empire
Statius' Silvae and the Poetics of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Statius' Silvae and the Poetics of Empire write by Carole E. Newlands. This book was released on 2002-03-14. Statius' Silvae and the Poetics of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Statius' Silvae, written late in the reign of Domitian (AD 81–96), are a new kind of poetry that confronts the challenge of imperial majesty or private wealth by new poetic strategies and forms. As poems of praise, they delight in poetic excess whether they honour the emperor or the poet's friends. Yet extravagant speech is also capacious speech. It functions as a strategy for conveying the wealth and grandeur of villas, statues and precious works of art as well as the complex emotions aroused by the material and political culture of empire. The Silvae are the product of a divided, self-fashioning voice. Statius was born in Naples of non-aristocratic parents. His position as outsider to the culture he celebrates gives him a unique perspective on it. The Silvae are poems of anxiety as well as praise, expressive of the tensions within the later period of Domitian's reign.
Statius and the Silvae
Statius and the Silvae - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Statius and the Silvae write by Alex Hardie. This book was released on 1983. Statius and the Silvae available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although writing in Latin, Statius (first-century AD) was, by origin and training, a Greek poet, and his collection of "occasional" poems, the Silvae, are a Roman extension of contemporary trends in Greek display poetry. No reading of the Silvae can be accurate without an understanding of this Graeco-Roman poetic milieu. This book therefore begins with a reconstruction of the professional background to the Silvae - the festival circuit, the conditions of work for writers, their opportunities for advancement in the Greek and Roman worlds - both in the Hellenistic period and in the first century A.D. In this setting, display oratory and poetry are shown to have developed in parallel and to have had a profound mutual influence. Further chapters consider Statius' performances as a Neapolitan poet at Rome, his portrayal of his own society and his friends, and his attitudes to his Latin predecessors. Literary patronage, both imperial and private, is a vital element in Statius' poetic career, and Hardie goes on to investigate the identity and social standing of the addressees of the Silvae . He also considers the career of the contemporary epigrammatist Martial in comparison to that of Statius. Many essential features of Flavian taste emerge from these studies. Large-scale interpretations of individual poems are offered throughout this volume, making many new suggestions about both points of detail and the overall significance of the major poems in the Silvae . Statius and the Silvae is an important contribution to the debate on the relationship between poetry and rhetoric, and to the understanding of how society and literature interconnected in the Flavian age.
P. Papinius Statius, Silvae Book II
P. Papinius Statius, Silvae Book II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook P. Papinius Statius, Silvae Book II write by Harm-Jan Van Dam. This book was released on 1984. P. Papinius Statius, Silvae Book II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes Latin text of Silvae book II.
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