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040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a871.01 _bNEW _223
100	1		_aNewlands, Carole Elizabeth _eauthor
245	1	0	_aStatius' Silvae and the poetics of Empire / _cCarole Elizabeth Newlands
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2002
300			_a356 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_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.
650		0	_aStatius, P. Papinius
650		0	_aOccasional verse, Latin -- History and criticism.
650		0	_aLaudatory poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
650		0	_aImperialism in literature.
650		0	_aEmperors in literature.
650		0	_aRome -- History -- Domitian, 81-96 -- Historiography.
650		0	_aRome -- In literature.
650		0	_aEmperors in literature
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