"The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in two poets from the reign of Domitian. Gunderson offers a comprehensive overview of the Epigrams of Martial and the Siluae of Statius. The praise of power found in these tex…
The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in two poets from the reign of Domitian. Gunderson argues that power and politics are intimately involved in Latin praise poetry.
Includes Latin text of Silvae book II.
Preliminary Material /Stephen Thomas Newmyer -- Introduction /Stephen Thomas Newmyer -- Tradition and Originality in the Silvae /Stephen Thomas Newmyer -- Structure in Ancient Poetic Collections /Stephen Thomas Newmyer -- Structural Principals of Individual Poems in the Silvae /…
""In detaillierten Fallstudien analysiert Helge Baumann, wie Martial und Statius das Epos in der poetischen Kleinform thematisieren, integrieren und funktionalisieren. Beide Autoren assoziieren unterschiedlichste Situationen, kulturelle Praktiken und Akteure mit dem Epos. In der…
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Through a combined methodology of philology, social theory and archaeology this book offers a reinterpretation of Statius's Silvae.