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.
Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War
Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War - 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' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War write by Charles McNelis. This book was released on 2007-02-08. Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study focuses on ways in which Statius' epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the theme of internal discord in its narrative strategies. At the same time that Statius reworks the Homeric and Virgilian epic traditions, he engages with Hellenistic poetic ideals as exemplified by Callimachus and the Roman Callimachean poets, especially Ovid. The result is a tension between the impulse towards the generic expectations of warfare and the desire for delay and postponement of such conflict. Ultimately, Statius adheres to the mythic paradigm of the mutual fratricide, but he continues to employ competing strategies that call attention to the fictive nature of any project of closure and conciliation. In the process, the poem offers a new mode of epic closure that emphasises individual means of resolution.
Statius Silvae 5
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.
Thebaid
Thebaid - 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 Thebaid write by Statius. This book was released on 2011-03-15. Thebaid available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Thebaid, a Latin epic in twelve books by Statius (c. 45–96 C. E.) reexamines events following the abdication of Oedipus, focusing on the civil war between the brothers Eteocles, King of Thebes, and Polynices, who comes at the head of an army from Argos to claim his share of royal power. The poem is long—each of the twelve books comprises over eight hundred lines—and complex, and it exploits a broad range of literary works, both Greek and Latin. Severely curtailed though he was by the emperor Domitian and his Reign of Terror, Statius nevertheless created a meditation on autocratic rule that is still of political interest today. Popular in its own time and much admired in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance—most notably by Dante and Chaucer—the poem fell into obscurity and has, for readers of English, been poorly served by translators. Statius composed his poem in dactylic hexameters, the supreme verse form in antiquity. In his hands, this venerable line is flexible, capable of subtle emphases and dramatic shifts in tempo; it is an expressive, responsive medium. In this new and long-awaited translation the poet Jane Wilson Joyce employs a loose, six-beat line in her English translation, which allows her to reveal something of the original rhythm and of the interplay between sentence structure and verse framework. The clarity of Joyce's translation highlights the poem's superb versification, sophisticated use of intertextuality, and bold formal experimentation and innovation. A substantial introduction and annotations make this epic accessible to students of all levels.
