Statius' Silvae and the poetics of Empire /

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...

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Main Author: Newlands, Carole Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Embodying the statue: Silvae 1.1 and 4.6 -- Engendering the house: Silvae 1.2 and 3.4 -- Imperial pastoral: Vopiscus' villa in Silvae 1.3 -- Dominating nature: Pollio's villa in Silvae 2.2 -- Reading the Thebaid: Silvae 1.5 -- The Emperor's Saturnalia: Silvae 1.6 -- Dining with the emperor: Silvae 4.2 -- Building the imperial highway: Silvae 4.3. 
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