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Language: en
Pages: 360
Pages: 360
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-01 - Publisher: BRILL
Scholars have long noted the strikingly visual aspects of Statius’ poetry. This book advances our understanding of how these visual aspects work through inter
Language: en
Pages: 309
Pages: 309
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-06 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
In the essays of this volume, Michael Putnam shows how seriously Statius pays homage to his canonical predecessor, Virgil, how thoroughly he interprets the comp
Language: en
Pages: 305
Pages: 305
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This is the first in-depth exploration of the extent and significance of Ovidian intertexts in Statius' Thebaid, with particular emphasis on the interplay betwe
Language: en
Pages: 271
Pages: 271
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-12-28 - Publisher: BRILL
The Silvae by Statius dethroned Virgil from the Studio in Naples, fostered the creation of a new genre, offered a model for court poetry, and seduced the most p
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-06-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
This is the first book-length study of the reception of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica in the epic poems of Silius Italicus (Punica), Statius (Thebaid, Achilleid