The Poetry of Statius

48 HARM-JAN VAN DAM whole house is black”) // nigra domus questu (Stat. Silv. 5.1.19: the house is black in complaining); uertit ...

WANDERING WOODS AGAIN 49 Silvae, poems declaimed as introductions, or praelectiones, as Po- liziano calls them, to his academic ...

50 HARM-JAN VAN DAM sional, encomiastic poems became more tenuous. As a result books entitled Silvae from the early sixteenth ce ...

WANDERING WOODS AGAIN 51 dus’ posthumous poemata of 1541 there is one book of Silvae; its title was probably given by the editor ...

52 HARM-JAN VAN DAM for the Silvae), published in Antwerp, and his real achievement, the 1599 commentary on the Silvae, the firs ...

WANDERING WOODS AGAIN 53 as if Wower participated to some extent, for instance in correcting the scholia, in the edition of his ...

54 HARM-JAN VAN DAM gins of his codex domesticus, which he transcribed and sent to Bero- aldo in 1494. This codex domesticus was ...

WANDERING WOODS AGAIN 55 ever publishing, for which his friends dubbed him Lentulus, Laggard. He collected editions of Statius a ...

56 HARM-JAN VAN DAM Whether Scriverius was Scaliger’s most industrious pupil or not, his most brilliant pupil was Hugo Grotius ( ...

WANDERING WOODS AGAIN 57 One of Grotius’ early poems is the Silva ad Cochlinum, written when the addressee, the German preacher ...

58 HARM-JAN VAN DAM In this way, when the ships equipped with cannons, bringing the harvest of the East to Dutch ports, unfurl t ...

WANDERING WOODS AGAIN 59 formed by Poliziano; and this is clear from what Vossius liked in the poem: the intricate Greek periphr ...

60 HARM-JAN VAN DAM prime example, especially in their structure, often with many local imitations of Claudian. But the earliest ...

WANDERING WOODS AGAIN 61 poem by G.J. Vossius, which again emphasizes the Statian connec- tion, since it is an imitation of Silv ...

62 HARM-JAN VAN DAM Grotius did not come back to Statius until some twenty years later when Johann Gronovius (1611–1671), with w ...

WANDERING WOODS AGAIN 63 that he could resend his notes; but that it was too late now as Grono- vius and others had already fore ...

64 HARM-JAN VAN DAM In his letter to Gronovius, Grotius remarked that others had made the same suggestions that he had offered, ...

THE EQUINE CUCKOO: STATIUS’ ECUS MAXIMUS DOMITIANI IMPERATORIS AND THE FLAVIAN FORUM Michael Dewar Most contemporary visitors to ...

66 MICHAEL DEWAR demands of the most outrageous private luxury.^1 The lake that adorned the pleasure gardens of Nero’s palace wa ...

THE EQUINE CUCKOO 67 palace petered out. Rome has been restored to herself, and under your protection, Caesar, the delights that ...