The Poetry of Statius

68 MICHAEL DEWAR And now of that company one, perhaps, gives laws to eastern nations, another imposes peace upon the Iberians, a ...

THE EQUINE CUCKOO 69 the rule of the new dynasty, namely the end of the brutal civil wars that followed the suicide of the last ...

70 MICHAEL DEWAR by Julius, Augustus, and Tiberius Caesar, thus creating something akin to a unified monumental precinct proclai ...

THE EQUINE CUCKOO 71 That is, the god’s four faces more or less looked out on four Fora, the Roman Forum, those of Augustus and ...

72 MICHAEL DEWAR Probably dedicated early in A.D. 90 (though some put it later, in the summer of that year, or even in A.D. 91), ...

THE EQUINE CUCKOO 73 das Cattis Dacisque fidem: te signa ferente et minor in leges gener et Cato Caesaris irent. (Silv. 1.1.22–8 ...

74 MICHAEL DEWAR long warfare quell ... the wickedness of civil strife”). Indeed, had Domitian been in Julius’ shoes, there woul ...

THE EQUINE CUCKOO 75 there was still the Forum Square itself. That space was largely kept free in order to make it available not ...

76 MICHAEL DEWAR original ideas,^14 while we might add that they too might perhaps have relied too much on the vague phrasing of ...

THE EQUINE CUCKOO 77 of the equestrian statue and the interpretation of it offered by Statius related to wider questions of Flav ...

78 MICHAEL DEWAR But your spreading flanks are guarded, on one side by the Julian build- ing and on the other by the palace of w ...

THE EQUINE CUCKOO 79 the speed with which he composed centum hos uersus, quos in ecum maximum feci (“these hundred lines, which ...

80 MICHAEL DEWAR seen from ground level. Misjudgements do occur, of course. One might hypothesize a disagreement between Domitia ...

THE EQUINE CUCKOO 81 The hierarchical element is subtle, but surely clear enough: the great Julian basilica is like a lowly guar ...

82 MICHAEL DEWAR after all, is no model of perfect kingship in the Roman rhetorical and literary tradition. In this context one ...

THE EQUINE CUCKOO 83 That is, the statue laid claim not merely to the Forum Square of Rome, but to heaven itself. Seeking as it ...

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BATTLE NARRATIVE IN STATIUS, THEBAID∗ Bruce Gibson Introduction Battle narrative is difficult. Difficult for us, in attempting t ...

86 BRUCE GIBSON (375–652) and Euripides’ Phoenissae (106–81, 1104–40).^3 The gates are in fact rarely referred to in Statius: on ...

BATTLE NARRATIVE IN STATIUS, THEBAID 87 est of the readers. This is an issue that is arguably germane to martial epic in general ...