Silvae

by Statius, Stephen Newmyer (Editor)

Overview

A two-volume set.

Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient Greek and Latin literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and then provide the specific grammatical and lexical notes that a student requires to begin the task of interpretation.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780929524528
Publisher:	Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Inc.
Publication date:	12/01/1987
Series:	Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Latin
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

D. R. Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University.

Christopher A. Parrott is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Classics at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	3
	Recent Scholarship on the Silvae	11
	Abbreviations	22
	Silvae
Book I
	Prefatory Notes	24
	Statius to His Friend Stella	26
1.	The Statue of Domitian	30
2.	Epithalamium in Honour of Stella and Violentilla	40
3.	The Villa of Manilius Vopiscus	62
4.	To Rutilius Gallicus	70
5.	The Baths of Claudius Etruscus	82
6.	The Kalends of December	88
Book II
	Prefatory Notes	98
	Statius to His Friend Melior	100
1.	Glaucias	102
2.	The Villa of Pollius Felix	122
3.	The Tree of Atedius Melior	134
4.	The Parrot of the Same	142
5.	The Tame Lion	146
6.	Consolation to Flavius Ursus	148
7.	To Polla on Lucan's Birthday	156
Book III
	Prefatory Notes	170
	Statius to His Friend Pollius	172
1.	The Hercules at Surrentum	174
2.	Send-off to Maecius Celer	188
3.	Consolation to Claudius Etruscus	200
4.	The Hair of Flavius Earinus	216
5.	To His Wife Claudia	224
Book IV
	Prefatory Notes	237
	Statius to His Friend Marcellus	240
1.	The Seventeenth Consulship of Domitian	244
2.	To the Emperor Domitian	248
3.	The Domitian Way	254
4.	To Vitorius Marcellus	266
5.	Ode to Septimius Severus	274
6.	The Hercules Statuette	280
7.	Ode to Vibius Maximus	288
8.	Poem of Congratulation	294
9.	Jesting Hendecasyllabics	300
Book V
	Prefatory Notes	308
	Statius to His Friend Abascantus	310
1.	On the Death of Priscilla	310
2.	Praises of Crispinus	332
3.	Lament for His Father	346
4.	Sleep	372
5.	A Lament for His Boy	374
	Critical Appendix	383
	Index	405

Editorial Reviews

Both the classicist and the casual reader of Latin poetry owe a debt of gratitude to Shackleton Bailey for making this difficult collection of poems accessible in a scholarly yet eminently readable edition that may help Statius' occasional poetry to participate in the renewal of interest which the poet's epic production is currently experiencing.
— Stephen Newmyer

Scholia Reviews