The Poetry of Statius

168 RUURD R. NAUTA nos otia uitae solamur cantu uentosaque gaudia famae quaerimus. en egomet somnum et geniale secutus litus, ub ...

STATIUS IN THE SILVAE 169 selves.^78 Rather, by presenting each individual poem not as an instance of something he has composed ...

170 RUURD R. NAUTA and is to be thought of as being sung in Alba Longa, where Severus does not seem to be present. Statius’ Alba ...

STATIUS IN THE SILVAE 171 This beginning combines allusion to the beginnings of two of Horace’s satires: 2.8, where the Nasidien ...

172 RUURD R. NAUTA grimed with Alban smoke and mark the day with chalk? Only now, slow and sluggish, do I sing my vows? (tr. SB) ...

STATIUS IN THE SILVAE 173 Conclusion The above survey of both the imperial and the non-imperial poems in the Silvae has shown th ...

174 RUURD R. NAUTA of the Greek tradition, even though combining this, as necessary, with the requirements of the role of a Roma ...

STATIUS, DOMITIAN AND ACKNOWLEDGING PATERNITY: RITUALS OF SUCCESSION IN THE THEBAID* Gianpiero Rosati 1) Politics and literature ...

176 GIANPIERO ROSATI What immediately strikes the reader (and has long been interpreted as a sample of the ‘Virgilianism’ of the ...

STATIUS, DOMITIAN AND ACKNOWLEDGING PATERNITY 177 templated “from afar” (let me recall the similar attitude of Silius Italicus, ...

178 GIANPIERO ROSATI opened up a favourable route, a benignum iter, for the poem. The em- peror’s appreciation and popular succe ...

STATIUS, DOMITIAN AND ACKNOWLEDGING PATERNITY 179 in the canon was that the texts chosen should be useful, that they should carr ...

180 GIANPIERO ROSATI proud affirmation of survival after the emperor’s death, that is to say, the superiority of his own literar ...

STATIUS, DOMITIAN AND ACKNOWLEDGING PATERNITY 181 wards.^20 In Ovid, for example, it systematically indicates the poet’s enemies ...

182 GIANPIERO ROSATI vehicle for the passage of power from one emperor to another, thus critically focusing attention on the pro ...

STATIUS, DOMITIAN AND ACKNOWLEDGING PATERNITY 183 Flavians; but it also finds a precise correspondence in the literary field, an ...

184 GIANPIERO ROSATI the currency by which one will be judged oneself, and is a way of appropriating him, replacing him and inhe ...

STATIUS, DOMITIAN AND ACKNOWLEDGING PATERNITY 185 guised by a hyperbolic homage to Domitian; a homage that lends it- self, howev ...

186 GIANPIERO ROSATI and Nature will leave it to you to determine what deity you wish to be, and where to establish your univers ...

STATIUS, DOMITIAN AND ACKNOWLEDGING PATERNITY 187 Sun’, Lucan must neutralise the image that this association inevitably evokes ...