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A Concordance to Statius
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Women in Statius' Thebaid
The women in Statius' Thebaid are striking characters. Statius gives them real roles to play; they don't just sit in the background of the epic waiting for the men to decide all the issues. Instead, they take active roles in the action and succeed in affecting the world around them. It is …
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Chaucer and the Medieval Statius
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Heroic Self-Fashioning in Statius' Thebaid
… attempt to create their own heroic identity in Statius’ epic poem, the Thebaid. The Thebaid is a poem with no single central character, but a central group of heroes of relatively equal standing. Among this large crowd, each individual attempts to prove their heroic worth by manipulating …
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Fama proditrix: Rumor in Ovid, Statius, and Prudentius
… the personification of Fama in the authors Ovid, Statius, and Prudentius.These Latin authors were deeply influenced by Virgil’s famous personification of Fama in Aeneid 4, and their indebtedness to Virgil is expressed variously through their references to Fama in their own works. Chapter one …
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A commentary on selected passages of Statius, Thebaid 6
Book 6 of Statius’ *Thebaid* narrates the climax of the Argive army’s stay at Nemea: the funeral of the royal prince Opheltes, who had been killed by the serpent of Jupiter in Book 5, and the athletic games held in his honour. This thesis contains a line-by-line commentary on the opening section, …
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Statius' Silvan Poetics: A Synoptic Reading of the Silvae
… majority of scholarly publications on Statius’ Silvae, a collection of relatively short poems from the first century AD, selectively approach specific themes or individual poems. As a consequence, the overall design of the collection has received at best marginal attention. This thesis …
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Epic of Civil War in Lucan, Statius and Silius Italicus
… mid-late first century AD: Lucan’s Pharsalia, Statius’ Thebaid and Silius’ Punica. A special contribution is given to the understanding of the Domitianic poems, the Thebaid and the Punica, in the light of their late-Neronian model, the Pharsalia. At the heart of this project lies the idea that …
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Female characterisation in the epic poetry of P. Papinius Statius
… serious Latinist will deny the probability that Statius will again emerge from the current scholarly re-evaluation of Silver Age Epic as the great poet he seemed to the finest spirits of High Middle Ages and Renaissance, rather than as the pale imitator of Virgil he appeared to the censorious …
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Die Helden der Wettspiele und ihre Charakterzeichnungen in der Thebais des Statius
Die Thebais des Statius ist eines der wenigen komplett ausgearbeiteten lateinischen Epen der Antike, für die der Autor aus dem vollen Repertoire der Gattung schöpfen kann. Er greift Elemente nahezu aller Vorgänger auf und stellt an die zentrale Position seines Werkes die Wettspiele, die zum einen …
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The prose prefaces of Martial and Statius : a study in literary purpose
… of Martial (AD c45-c96) and the Siluae of Statius (c45-c96). The most remarkable feature of these ten short pieces of prose lies in the field of literary history: these are the first extant instances of collections of verse which are headed with pieces of prose, and it is chiefly from this …
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An Epic of Tragic Proportions: [In]forming the Politics of Statius’ Thebaid through Greek Tragic Intertext
<p>Statius’ epic poem, the Thebaid, has often been compared to Virgil’s Aeneid and many studies rightfully devote their attention to this text. I argue, however, that Greek tragedy equally plays an integral role in our reading and understanding of the Thebaid. Statius’ relationship with Greek …
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Into the woods: narrative studies in the 'Thebaid' of Statius with special reference to books IV-VI
… Ode and Thebaid IV-VI among other texts, that Statius consistently measures baby Opheltes against the paradigmatic Hercules, contrasting the glorious beginnings of Hercules' life with the abortive story of the baby whose death provides the aetiology for the huge games of book VI. Chapter six …
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Transgressive figures: Monsters and monstrosity in Flavian epic
This dissertation argues that the monsters in Statius’ Thebaid and Silius’ Punica both embody and reproduce dynamics of Flavian culture. These poems are taken together as exemplars of the culture during the reign of Domitian specifically. I conduct close, sustained, textual analysis of instances …
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Weeping and <i>Virtus</i> in Early Imperial Roman Epic
… Lucan’s <em>Bellum Civile</em>, and Statius’ <em>Thebaid</em>. I seek to understand judgments of and explanations for men’s tears within my sources, using philological analysis in a roughly dramaturgical framework. By comparing scenes where men weep in epic poetry to scenes in other …
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Nature, imperialism, and the ethics of war in Flavian epic
… Silius Italicus’ Punica, and Papinius Statius’ Thebaid use human encounters with nature to reflect on the morality of their poems’ central characters. Interactions and conflicts with nature occur at programmatic points in the poems, further indicating their importance for the …
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Quid restat profugis? Exile and power in Silius Italicus’ Punica
… also brought to bear, including Livy, Ovid, and Statius.
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Trans history from antiquity for today: reading gender in Imperial Roman literature
… Hercules swapping clothes with Omphale, and Statius’ account of Achilles living as a maiden on the isle of Scyros—in order to draw several principles about how gender is functioning within these texts. First, clothing, body language, and behavior serve as a means to chance one’s social …
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