x PREFACE
We are grateful to a number of institutions and people. The sympo-
sium was generously sponsored by the Council for the Humanities of
the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the
Dutch National Graduate School in Classical Studies (OIKOS), and
the Stichting Vrienden Klassiek Seminarium van de Universiteit van
Amsterdam. The Amsterdamse Universiteits-Vereniging (AUV) pro-
vided a venue commensurate with the elegance of Statius’ poetry, and
assisted with the organisation of the symposium. Michiel van der
Keur, PhD-student at VU University Amsterdam, compiled both in-
dexes and the bibliography, and corrected a number of errors in the
manuscript; for such as may remain, the editors themselves are re-
sponsible.
Amsterdam and Groningen, July 2008
Johannes J.L. Smolenaars
Harm-Jan van Dam
Ruurd R. Nauta