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.
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.
Nothing Ordinary Here
Nothing Ordinary Here - 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 Nothing Ordinary Here write by Noelle K. Zeiner. This book was released on 2020-11-25. Nothing Ordinary Here available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through a combined methodology of philology, social theory and archaeology this book offers a reinterpretation of Statius's Silvae.
Flavian Poetry
Flavian Poetry - 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 Flavian Poetry write by Ruud R. Nauta. This book was released on 2017-07-31. Flavian Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The reign of the Flavian emperors (69-96) saw the production of a large and varied body of Latin poetry: the epics of Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus and Statius, the Silvae of the same Statius, and the Epigrams of Martial. This poetry, long seen as derivative or decadent, is now increasingly appreciated for the daring originality of its responses both to the Latin literary tradition and to the contemporary Roman world. In the summer of 2003, the first-ever international conference on Flavian poetry, was held at Groningen, The Netherlands, bringing together leading scholars in the field from Europe, North America and Australasia. This volume offers a selection of the papers delivered on that occasion.
Fides in Flavian Literature
Fides in Flavian Literature - 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 Fides in Flavian Literature write by Antony Augoustakis. This book was released on 2019-08-22. Fides in Flavian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fides in Flavian Literature explores the ideology of "good faith" (fides) during the time of the emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian (69–96 CE), the new imperial dynasty that gained power in the wake of the civil wars of the period. The contributors to this volume consider the significance and semantic range of this Roman value in works that deal in myth, contemporary poetry, and history in both prose and verse. Though it does not claim to offer the comprehensive "last word" on fides in Flavian Rome, the book aims to show that fides in this period was subjected to a particularly striking and special brand of contestation and reconceptualization, used to interrogate the broad cultural changes and anxieties of the Flavian period as well as connect to a republican and imperial past. The editors argue that fides was both a vehicle for reconciliation and a means to test the nature of "good faith" in the wake of a devastating and divisive period in Roman history.
