01931nam a2200313 i 4500001000700000003000600007005001700013008004100030020001800071020001500089040002700104082002000131100003900151245007500190264005100265300001400316336002600330337002800356338002700384520090200411650002501313650005401338650005401392650003101446650002801477650005801505650002701563650002701590193742InACL20260928160838.0260928s2002    xxk               0 eng d  a9780521808910  a052180891X  aInACLbengerdacInACL04a871.01bNEW2231 aNewlands, Carole Elizabetheauthor10aStatius' Silvae and the poetics of Empire /cCarole Elizabeth Newlands 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2002  a356 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"Statius' Silvae, written late in the reign of Domitian (AD 81-96), are a new kind of poetry that confronts the challenge of imperial majesty or private wealth by new poetic strategies and forms. As poems of praise, they delight in poetic excess whether they honour the emperor or the poet's friends. Yet extravagant speech is also capacious speech. It functions as a strategy for conveying the wealth and grandeur of villas, statues and precious works of art, as well as the complex emotions aroused by the material and political culture of empire. The Silvae are the product of a divided, self-fashioning voice: Statius was born in Naples of non-aristocratic parents, and his position as outsider to the culture he celebrates gives him a unique perspective on it.The Silvae are poems of anxiety as well as praise, expressive of the tensions within the later period of Domitian's reign."--Jacket. 0aStatius, P. Papinius 0aOccasional verse, Latin -- History and criticism. 0aLaudatory poetry, Latin -- History and criticism. 0aImperialism in literature. 0aEmperors in literature. 0aRome -- History -- Domitian, 81-96 -- Historiography. 0aRome -- In literature. 0aEmperors in literature