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
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.
The Poetry of Statius
The Poetry of Statius - 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 The Poetry of Statius write by Johannes Jacobus Louis Smolenaars. This book was released on 2008. The Poetry of Statius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 poetry, long seen as derivative or decadent, is increasingly appreciated for the daring and originality of its responses both to the Greek and Latin literary tradition and to the contemporary Roman world. This volume offers the papers delivered at a symposium on Statius (Amsterdam 2005) by leading scholars in the field from Europe and North America. These papers demonstrate the fascination of Statius' poetry on account of the poet's vast knowledge of Greek and Latin tragedy, his rapid narrative, psychological acumen, brilliant eulogies, and pessimistic views on gods and men. The focus of the collection is on literary technique in the "Thebaid," on socio-historical aspects of the "Silvae," and on the reception of Statius in European literature and scholarship.
The Transvestite Achilles
The Transvestite Achilles - 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 The Transvestite Achilles write by P. J. Heslin. This book was released on 2005-08-11. The Transvestite Achilles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Statius' Achilleid is a playful, witty, and open-ended epic in the manner of Ovid. As we follow Achilles' metamorphosis from wild boy to demure girl to lover to hero, the poet brilliantly illustrates a series of contrasting codes of behaviour: male and female, epic and elegiac. This first full-length study of the poem addresses not only the narrative itself, but also sets the myth of Achilles on Scyros within a broad interpretive framework. The exploration ranges from the reception of the Achilleid in Baroque opera to the anthropological parallels that have been adduced to explain Achilles' transvestism. The study's expansive approach, which includes Ovid and Ovidian reception, psychoanalytic perspectives and theorizations of gender in antiquity, makes it essential reading not only for students of Statius, but for students of Latin literature, and of gender in antiquity.
