264 GENERAL INDEX
(Jocasta)
suicide of
by hanging: 219, 225
by the sword: 223, 225, 227,
230–2
theme of identical weapons:
225, 227, 230–2
in Euripides’ Oidipous: 222
in Euripides’ Phoinissai: 223,
226–7
in Seneca’s Oedipus: 222, 228–
31
in Seneca’s Phoenissae: 228
in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyran-
nus: 219, 226
in Statius’ Thebaid: 219, 225,
231–3
relation to the anagnorisis and
Oedipus’ blinding: 219, 222,
225–37
similar to Agrippina’s death:
230
(see also Oedipus, Statius’ Thebaid)
Julius Caesar
and Alexander the Great: 81–2
and Domitian: 72–4, 80–2
equestrian statue of: 81–2
(see also Ecus Maximus, propa-
ganda)
Jupiter: see under Statius’ Thebaid
Juvenal
on epitaphs: 35
kletic hymn: 163
Lactantius Placidus
on Jupiter’s speech in Thebaid 1:
136, 137, 139
laudatio (funerary): 19
Lindenbruch, Friedrich
edition of Statius: 52
Scaliger on: 52–3
literary power: 183
(see also auctor and succession in
literature)
Lucan:
and Homer: 91
epigraphic ‘quotation in: 23
future deification of Nero: 185–9
individual combat in: 91–2
(see also battle narrative, Statius’
Thebaid)
Martial:
and Domitian: 178, 202–3
immortality of literary text: 35
inscriptions in: 31
on public success: 178
metre
and epigraphic allusions: 31
in the Silvae: 31
muses
invocation of: 85, 87, 89, 96, 210
mythological spokespersons: 39, 41–2,
146, 148–9, 153, 160–1, 163,
173
Oedipus:
blinding of: 221, 226–9, 234ff.
in Euripides’ Oidipous: 221
in Euripides’ Phoinissai: 227–8,
235
in Seneca’s Oedipus: 229, 231,
235
in Sophocles’ OT: 226
in Statius’ Thebaid: 215, 218,
234–5, 237
tradition of the story of Oedipus be-
fore Sophocles: 220–1
(see also Jocasta and under Statius’
Thebaid)
Olyntus (in Statius’ Thebaid): 120–2
otium: see under Statius’ Silvae
Ovid:
and Catullus: 33
epigraphic ‘quotation’ in: 23–7
Hermaphroditus: 213–4
Hippolytus: 207–8
Narcissus: 212
on forma neglecta: 199
parrot (Ovid and Statius): 32–3
patronage
Augustan patronage as ideal model:
178–9, 181
(see also under Statius’ Silvae: self-
presentation: amicus and cli-
ent and under Statius’ The-
baid: Domitian)