The Poetry of Statius

128 P. J. HESLIN consensus, he changes his mind radically from one moment to the next, and he has a strong sense of self-interes ...

JUPITER IN THEBAID 1 AGAIN∗ D. E. Hill I have argued elsewhere^1 that, for whatever reason, Statius offered his readers a Jupite ...

130 D. E. HILL In 1.114–96, Tisiphone, in response to Oedipus’ request at 1.56– 87, sets in motion the hatred between Eteocles a ...

JUPITER IN THEBAID 1 AGAIN 131 for primaeque, though here the word order makes this case slightly more difficult. mediis sese ar ...

132 D. E. HILL greater sky and the door-posts, blooming in a mysterious light”). The individual words continue to excite awe and ...

JUPITER IN THEBAID 1 AGAIN 133 actum (1.222 “nothing was achieved”) that Jupiter saw Phaëthon and the drowned people as sinners ...

134 D. E. HILL brief aside at 1.79–80: et uidet ista deorum  ignauus genitor “And does the idle father of the gods see these th ...

JUPITER IN THEBAID 1 AGAIN 135 justified in the case of Adrastus thus: Jupiter fathered Epaphus by Io (Apollod. 2.1.3), Libya wa ...

136 D. E. HILL seu Thracum uertere domos, seu tecta Mycenes impia Cadmeumue larem. (4.53–7) In Shackleton Bailey’s translation: ...

JUPITER IN THEBAID 1 AGAIN 137 most inappropriate story to exemplify men’s sin and Jupiter’s need to punish it. Mozley and Shack ...

138 D. E. HILL be spoken of (reticenda). The climax of this part of the speech, just before he passes from the general to the pa ...

JUPITER IN THEBAID 1 AGAIN 139 ishing Oedipus’ sons (1.295–302, 2.7 etc.). Jupiter’s sense of how rhetoric should work is furthe ...

140 D. E. HILL hisne etiam funestus ego? et uidet ista deorum ignauus genitor? (1.74–80) I was deprived of sight and lacking my ...

JUPITER IN THEBAID 1 AGAIN 141 haps referring to the projected alternate reigns of Eteocles and Polynices.^7 He goes on: belli m ...

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STATIUS IN THE SILVAE Ruurd R. Nauta In the Silvae, Statius tells us enough about himself to enable us to draw up a rudimentary ...

144 RUURD R. NAUTA an investigation is to take it as concerned with the personae the poet adopts, and in what follows I shall re ...

STATIUS IN THE SILVAE 145 (99–100). A few lines later he speaks of the “sanctuaries that we dedi- cate to you” (105), where the ...

146 RUURD R. NAUTA Trojan Horse (8–16) and the subsequent evocation of the steed of Mars (18–22) set up the poet as a master of ...

STATIUS IN THE SILVAE 147 reasons this is highly improbable.^14 Again, we have no ceremony, but the fiction of ceremonial recita ...