Overview

The Silvae by Statius dethroned Virgil from the Studio in Naples, fostered the creation of a new genre, offered a model for court poetry, and seduced the most prestigious Humanists in the most vibrant centres of Renaissance Italy and the Netherlands. The collection preserves magnificent buildings otherwise lost; speaks of stones otherwise unknown; and memorializes people, rituals, and social relationships that would have passed into oblivion in silence. This volume offers a fresh look into approaches to the Silvae by editors and commentators, both at the time of the rediscovery of the poems and today.

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""This book has a claim upon the notice of all who are curious about the role of the commentary in classical learning, as well as those with a more general interest in the Silvae of Statius. (...) Ana Lóio’s introduction offers a brief but detailed history of exegetical scholarship on the Silvae. (...) In an exemplary synthesis of literary and textual criticism Ana Lóio examines two vexing passages in Statius’ Silvae (4.4.93–105) and Propertius’ Elegies (2.1.35–8), each concerned with proverbial friendships and the relations between poet and patron."" Matthew Hardy in BMCR 2024.05.02

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Ana Lóio, Ph.D. (2012), University of Lisbon, is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at that university. She has published articles and book-chapters on Statius’ Silvae and Martial’s epigrams. Contributors are: Giancarlo Abbamonte, Federica Bessone, Kathleen M. Coleman, Bruce Gibson, Ana Lóio, Carole Newlands, Antonino Pittà, Luke Roman, Gianpiero Rosati.

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