Editing and Commenting on Statius' Silvae

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52841-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 464, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lóio, Ana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Commenting on Statius’ Silvae: No Place for Dead Wood

Ana Lóio

Part 1 The (First) Rediscovery

1 Roman Humanism and the Study of the Silvae in the Fifteenth Century

Giancarlo Abbamonte

2 Poliziano’s (Commentary on Statius’) Silvae: Between Imitation and Exegesis

Luke Roman

Part 2 The Sequel: A New Age of Disclosure

3 The Role of Translation in Commentary on Statius’ Silvae

Bruce Gibson

4 Notes from a New Commentary on Statius’ Silvae

Antonino Pittà

5 Commenting on the Silvae: Visuality, Versatility, Verisimilitude

Kathleen M. Coleman

Part 3 A Path to the Future: Statian Readings in Augustan Poetry

6 Errant Poetics: Rethinking a Comment on Silvae 2.2.83–85

Carole Newlands

7 Commenting on an Ovidian Model: An Authorized Desertion in Silvae 1.2

Gianpiero Rosati

8 The Hut and the Temple: Private Aetiology and Augustan Models in Silvae 3.1

Federica Bessone

9 Untying the Commentator’s Knot: Bonds and Lacunae in Silvae 4.4 and Propertius 2.1

Ana Lóio

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.