Silvae
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA; London, England
Language: eng; lat
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780674996908
Description: "Statius’ Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 CE. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, offers thanks, admires a monument or artistic object, and describes a memorable scene. The verse is light in touch, with a distinct pictorial quality. Statius gives us in these impromptu poems clear images of Domitian’s Rome. Statius was raised in the Greek cultural milieu of the Bay of Naples, and his Greek literary education lends a sophisticated veneer to his ornamental verse. The role of the emperor and the imperial circle in determining taste is also readily apparent: the figure of the emperor Domitian permeates these poems. D. R. Shackleton Bailey’s edition of the Silvae, which replaced the earlier Loeb Classical Library edition with translation by J. H. Mozley, is now reissued with corrections by Christopher A. Parrott."--
Table of contents: title: Recent Scholarship on the Silvae / Kathleen M. Coleman; title: Silvae; title: Statius to His Friend Stella; title: The Statue of Domitian; title: Wedding ode in honor of Stella and Violentilla; title: The Villa of Manilius Vopiscus; title: To Rutilius Gallicus; title: The Baths of Claudius Etruscus; title: The Kalends of December; title: Statius to His Friend Melior; title: Glaucias; title: The Villa of Pollius Felix; title: The Tree of Atedius Melior; title: The Parrot of the Same; title: The Tame Lion; title: Consolation to Flavius Ursus; title: To Polla on Lucan's Birthday; title: Statius to His Friend Pollius; title: The Hercules at Surrentum; title: Send-off to Maecius Celer; title: Consolation to Claudius Etruscus; title: The Hair of Flavius Earinus; title: To His Wife Claudia; title: Statius to His Friend Marcellus; title: The Seventeenth Consulship of Domitian; title: To the Emperor Domitian; title: The Domitian Way; title: To Vitorius Marcellus; title: Ode to Septimius Severus; title: The Hercules Statuette; title: Ode to Vibius Maximus; title: Poem of Congratulation; title: Jesting Hendecasyllabics; title: Statius to His Friend Abascantus; title: On the Death of Priscilla; title: Praises of Crispinus; title: Lament for his Father; title: Sleep; title: A Lament for his Boy