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Author : Publius Papinius Statius
Release : 2006-10-05
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Statius Silvae 5 by : Publius Papinius Statius
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Author : P. Papinius Statius
Release : 2018-07-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Silvae Book II by : P. Papinius Statius
Download or read book Silvae Book II written by P. Papinius Statius. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Carole E. Newlands
Release : 2002-03-14
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Statius' Silvae and the Poetics of Empire by : Carole E. Newlands
Download or read book Statius' Silvae and the Poetics of Empire written by Carole E. Newlands. This book was released on 2002-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Stephen Thomas Newmyer
Release : 1979-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Silvae of Statius by : Stephen Thomas Newmyer
Download or read book The Silvae of Statius written by Stephen Thomas Newmyer. This book was released on 1979-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Publius Papinius Statius
Release : 1908
Genre : Occasional verse, Latin
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Book Synopsis The Silvae of Statius by : Publius Papinius Statius
Download or read book The Silvae of Statius written by Publius Papinius Statius. This book was released on 1908. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
