Back to Statius
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Occasional poems on villas, funerals, and friends, improvised with great technical display.
The Edition
- Original language
- Latin
- Translated by
- D. R. Shackleton Bailey
Publication
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Series volume
- 206
- Date published
- 2015-06-01
- Print status
- In print
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Dust jacket
- Yes
- Total pages
- 464 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9780674996908
Reference
- Read online
- Read Here
- Publisher page
- View at publisher
Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- FOREWORD TO THE CORRECTED EDITION
- INTRODUCTION
- RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON THE SILVAE by Kathleen M. Coleman
- ABBREVIATIONS
- SILVAE
- BOOK I
- Prefatory Notes
- Statius to His Friend Stella
- 1. The Statue of Domitian
- 2. Wedding Ode in Honor of Stella and Violentilla
- 3. The Villa of Manilius Vopiscus
- 4. To Rutilius Gallicus
- 5. The Baths of Claudius Etruscus
- 6. The Kalends of December
- BOOK II
- Prefatory Notes
- Statius to His Friend Melior
- 1. Glaucias
- 2. The Villa of Pollius Felix
- 3. The Tree of Atedius Melior
- 4. The Parrot of the Same
- 5. The Tame Lion
- 6. Consolation to Flavius Ursus
- 7. To Polla on Lucan’s Birthday
- BOOK III
- Prefatory Notes
- Statius to His Friend Pollius
- 1. The Hercules at Surrentum
- 2. Send-off to Maecius Celer
- 3. Consolation to Claudius Etruscus
- 4. The Hair of Flavius Earinus
- 5. To His Wife Claudia
- BOOK IV
- Prefatory Notes
- Statius to His Friend Marcellus
- 1. The Seventeenth Consulship of Augustus
- 2. To the Emperor Domitian
- 3. The Domitian Way
- 4. To Vitorius Marcellus
- 5. Ode to Septimius Severus
- 6. The Hercules Statuette
- 7. Ode to Vibius Maximus
- 8. Poem of Congratulation
- 9. Jesting Hendecasyllabics
- BOOK V
- Prefatory Notes
- Statius to His Friend Abascantus
- 1. On the Death of Priscilla
- 2. Praises of Crispinus
- 3. Lament for His Father
- 4. Sleep
- 5. A Lament for His Boy
- CRITICAL APPENDIX
- INDEX