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.
The Silvae of Statius
The Silvae 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 Silvae of Statius write by Publius Papinius Statius. This book was released on 1908. The Silvae of Statius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Silvae of Statius
The Silvae 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 Silvae of Statius write by Stephen Thomas Newmyer. This book was released on 1979-01-01. The Silvae of Statius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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.
