The Poetry of Statius

188 GIANPIERO ROSATI When Statius, in a proem so largely indebted to Lucan as a model, also repeats the pattern of the alternati ...

STATIUS, DOMITIAN AND ACKNOWLEDGING PATERNITY 189 that the Sun had given his son in Ovid). This is all the more significant beca ...

190 GIANPIERO ROSATI The rays that crown his head are obviously the symbol of command, which makes Phaethon the ‘new Sun’; but h ...

STATIUS, DOMITIAN AND ACKNOWLEDGING PATERNITY 191 In this version the myth (whose political value is of course no less evident i ...

192 GIANPIERO ROSATI Oedipus): he tries to abandon his Theban past, and to integrate himself into the house of Adrastus, his fat ...

STATIUS, DOMITIAN AND ACKNOWLEDGING PATERNITY 193 as is confirmed by the astonishing phrase of v. 23: “as you take on your aged ...

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DUST, WATER AND SWEAT: THE STATIAN PUER BETWEEN CHARM AND WEAKNESS, PLAY AND WAR∗∗∗∗ Lorenzo Sanna In this paper I discuss some ...

196 LORENZO SANNA Quantus equis quantusque uiris in puluere crasso sudor! Io quanti crudele rubebitis amnes! (Theb. 3.210–1) Wha ...

DUST, WATER AND SWEAT: THE STATIAN PUER 197 Likewise, we often find the dust of war ‘soiling’ the beautiful faces of the lovely ...

198 LORENZO SANNA and Alcidamas have to fight against stronger and dreadful enemies; Pollux, in order to survive, has to fight A ...

DUST, WATER AND SWEAT: THE STATIAN PUER 199 character. He too wants to ridicule and eliminate his opponent’s ephe- bic appearanc ...

200 LORENZO SANNA to increase the heroic and warlike characteristics of the puer’s forma uirilis. Most emblematic is the case of ...

DUST, WATER AND SWEAT: THE STATIAN PUER 201 taedet nemorum, titulumque nocentem sanguinis humani pudor est nescire sagittas (The ...

202 LORENZO SANNA While Parthenopaeus, still in the middle of a dreamlike mixture of emotions, games and childish fantasies, goe ...

DUST, WATER AND SWEAT: THE STATIAN PUER 203 paign: clad in a pure white garment, his glowing features beautified precisely by th ...

204 LORENZO SANNA which becomes cruel in the dust of real fights (Theb. 9.785 uero...puluere), and the homely and preparatory wa ...

DUST, WATER AND SWEAT: THE STATIAN PUER 205 and his hair shines fairer than tawny gold. Nor yet is his first youth changing with ...

206 LORENZO SANNA Hylas,^31 with his sensual sweating body, represents the pinnacle of the extreme aesthetic power of the ephebe ...

DUST, WATER AND SWEAT: THE STATIAN PUER 207 ... manus) and she certainly does not meet with any resistance (3.564 adiutae ... ui ...