The Poetry of Statius

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The Poetry of Statius ...

Mnemosyne Supplements Monographs on Greek and Roman Language and Literature Editorial Board G.J. Boter A. Chaniotis K. Coleman I ...

The Poetry of Statius Edited by Johannes J.L. Smolenaars Harm-Jan van Dam Ruurd R. Nauta LEIDEN • BOSTON 2008 ...

This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data The poetry of Statius / edited by Jo ...

CONTENTS Preface ............................................................................................ vii Abbreviations. ...

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PREFACE After having organised a conference on Flavian poetry in Groningen in 2003 and edited the ensuing volume Flavian Poetry ...

viii PREFACE of epigraphic quotation in the Silvae. She connects this with Statius’ strategy to transform and transcend the ever ...

PREFACE ix rhetorician. The flaws in Jupiter’s speech should be attributed not to Statius’ possible carelessness, but rather to ...

x PREFACE We are grateful to a number of institutions and people. The sympo- sium was generously sponsored by the Council for th ...

ABBREVIATIONS Greek authors and works are abbreviated according to the system of LSJ, Latin authors and works according to that ...

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‘IN PONDERE NON MAGNO SATIS PONDEROSAE ...’: GRONOVIUS AND THE PRINTED TRADITION OF THE THEBAID∗ Valéry Berlincourt ‘In pondere ...

2 VALÉRY BERLINCOURT pays great attention to the manuscripts: we know that he consulted at least eleven for this edition;^3 thos ...

‘IN PONDERE NON MAGNO SATIS PONDEROSAE...’ 3 Remitto cum largis gratiis Gronovii Papinium. Valde me delectarunt Notae tam accura ...

4 VALÉRY BERLINCOURT contrast Gronovius’ work with Barth’s, and in particular with his forthcoming Statius? The answer largely d ...

‘IN PONDERE NON MAGNO SATIS PONDEROSAE...’ 5 scholars.^14 As early as 1649, however, Daum had written to Reinesius that Barth wa ...

6 VALÉRY BERLINCOURT were thus precisely the same qualities that Reinesius’ earlier letter to Daum had praised in Heinsius in ex ...

‘IN PONDERE NON MAGNO SATIS PONDEROSAE...’ 7 edition, Lyons 1665),^21 but also in the edition cum notis variorum published by Jo ...