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Brill's companion to Statius /
Brill's Companion to Statius is the first companion volume to be published on arguably the most important Roman poet of the Flavian period. Thirty-four newly commissioned chapters from international experts provide a comprehensive overview of recent approaches to Statius, discuss the fundamenta...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2015.
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| Colección: | Brill's companions in classical studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Notes on Contributors; Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Reading Statius; Part 2 Beginnings; Chapter 2 Statius on Invocation and Inspiration; Chapter 3 The Silvae: Poetics of Impromptu and Cultural Consumption; Chapter 4 The Beginnings of the Achilleid; Part 3 Social and Cultural Matters; Chapter 5 Creating the Distinguished Addressee: Literary Patronage in the Works of Statius; Chapter 6 Gift and Society in the Works of Statius; Chapter 7 Negative Stereotypes of Wealth in the Works of Statius; Chapter 8 Family and Kinship in the Works of Statius.
- Part 4 Transgressive Poetics: The AchilleidChapter 9 Statius' Achilleid: The Paradoxical Epic; Chapter 10 Intertext, Metapoetry, and Visuality in the Achilleid; Chapter 11 Similes and Gender in the Achilleid; Part 5 Conflict, Power, and Death in the Thebaid; Chapter 12 "War Came in Disarray ..." (Thebaid 7.616): Statius and the Depiction of Battle; Chapter 13 Parent-Child Conflict in the Thebaid; Chapter 14 Transgressing Boundaries of the Unthinkable: Sophocles, Ovid, Vergil, Seneca, and Homer Refracted in Statius' Thebaid; Chapter 15 Similes and Their Programmatic Role in the Thebaid.
- Chapter 16 The Constitutional Status of Euripidean and Statian Theseus: Some Aspects of the Criticism of Absolute Power in the ThebaidChapter 17 Dead Woman Walking: Jocasta in the Thebaid; Part 6 Predecessors and Contemporaries; Chapter 18 Statius' Epic Poetry: A Challenge to the Literary Past; Chapter 19 Statius' Thebaid and Greek Tragedy: The Legacy of Thebes; Chapter 20 Georgics 2.497 and Thebaid 1.19-20: Allusion and Inspiration; Chapter 21 Statius and Senecan Drama; Chapter 22 Lucan's De Bello Civili in the Thebaid; Chapter 23 Following after Valerius: Argonautic Imagery in the Thebaid.
- Chapter 24 Statius and Silius ItalicusChapter 25 Statius and Martial: Post-vatic Self-fashioning in Flavian Rome; Part 7 Reception; Chapter 26 Reading Statius Through a Biographical Lens; Chapter 27 Papinius Noster: Statius in Roman Late Antiquity; Chapter 28 Medieval Statius: Belatedness and Authority; Chapter 29 Statius in Dante's Commedia; Chapter 30 The Thebaid in Italian Renaissance Epic: The Case of Capaneus; Chapter 31 Early Modern Thebaid: The Latin Commentary Tradition; Chapter 32 Statian Recusatio: Angelo Poliziano and John Dryden; Chapter 33 Naturalizing Statius.
- Chapter 34 Statius in an Ideological ClimateBibliography; Index Locorum; General Index.