Johannes J.L. Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam, and Ruurd R. Nauta, The Poetry of Statius, Leiden, Brill, coll. "Mnemosyne, Supplements" n° 306, 2008
ISBN-13 : 978 90 04 17134 3
95€
Présentation de l'éditeur:
TheRoman poet P. Papinius Statius (ca. 45-96) is the author of two epics(the Thebaid and the unfinished Achilleid) and a large corpus ofoccasional verse (Silvae). This poetry, long seen as derivative ordecadent, is increasingly appreciated for the daring and originality ofits responses both to the Greek and Latin literary tradition and to thecontemporary Roman world. This volume offers the papers delivered at asymposium on Statius (Amsterdam 2005) by leading scholars in the fieldfrom Europe and North America. These papers demonstrate the fascinationof Statius' poetry on account of the poet's vast knowledge of Greek andLatin tragedy, his rapid narrative, psychological acumen, brillianteulogies, and pessimistic views on gods and men. The focus of thecollection is on literary technique in the Thebaid, on socio-historicalaspects of the Silvae, and on the reception of Statius in Europeanliterature and scholarship.
Johannes J.L. Smolenaars was Associate Professor of Latin at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Statius Thebaid VII, A Commentary (Brill, 1994) and has published several articles on Virgil, Ovid, Seneca tragicus and Statius.
Harm-Jan van Dam is Associate Professor of Latin at VU University Amsterdam. He is the author of Statius Silvae II, A Commentary (Brill, 1984) and Hugo Grotius De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra (Brill, 2001).
Ruurd R. Nauta is Professor of Latin at the University of Groningen. He is the author of Poetry for Patrons, Literary Communication in the Age of Domitian (Brill, 2002), and co-editor of Catullus' Poem on Attis (Brill, 2005).
The three editors have earlier collaborated in editing Flavian Poetry (Brill, 2006).
Contributors include: Valéry Berlincourt, Kathleen M. Coleman, Harm-Janvan Dam, Michael Dewar, Bruce Gibson, Peter J. Heslin, Donald E. Hill,Ruurd R. Nauta, Gianpiero Rosati, Lorenzo Sanna and Johannes J.L.Smolenaars.