Statius' Silvae and the poetics of Empire
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Publication
2002 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
89,000 words, Guess
Page Count
356 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivestatiussilvaepoe0000newl
- Internet Archivestatiussilvaepoe00newl
- ISBN-10052180891X
- ISBN-139780521808910
- LibraryThing6366070
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- Library of Congress Control Number2001037762
- OCLC Control Number47221820
- Better World Books9780521808910
- Open LibraryOL3948485M
Classifications
- DDC871/.01
- LCCPA6698 .N38 2002
Description
"Statius' Silvae, written late in the reign of Domitian (AD 81-96), are a new kind of poetry that confronts the challenge of imperial majesty or private wealth by new poetic strategies and forms. As poems of praise, they delight in poetic excess whether they honour the emperor or the poet's friends. Yet extravagant speech is also capacious speech. It functions as a strategy for conveying the wealth and grandeur of villas, statues and precious works of art, as well as the complex emotions aroused by the material and political culture of empire. The Silvae are the product of a divided, self-fashioning voice: Statius was born in Naples of non-aristocratic parents, and his position as outsider to the culture he celebrates gives him a unique perspective on it. The Silvae are poems of anxiety as well as praise, expressive of the tensions within the later period of Domitian's reign."--Jacket.
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