| Appleby, M., Statius and the Art of Reference: Intertextuality and the Thebaid, PhD Dissertation, Yale University, 1998 |
| Bishop, J.H., "The Debt of the Silvae to the Epyllia," La Parola del passato: Rivista di studi antichi 6 (1951): 427-32 • The Silvae are a development and extension of the epyllion and serve the same goal. |
| Bonadeo, Alessia, "Nella biblioteca di Stazio: Spigolature dalle Silvae," BStudLat 43 (2013) 37-86 • List of the poets whom Statius uses and cites directly or indirectly as his models in the Silvae. |
| Burgess, J.F., "Statius' Use of Sources," summary in Proceedings of the Classical Association 69 (1972): 29-30 |
| Chaudhuri, Pramit, The War with God: Theomachy in Roman Imperial Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). •An investigation of ancient theomachy as a context for Statius' Capaneus. •Review: Lovatt, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.07.26 |
| Chomarat, J., "Les elegiaques et Stace," in G. Serbat, ed., Rome et nous (Paris: A.J. Picard, 1977): 149-64 • Statius exploits the genre of elegy, using the same themes in different meters. |
| Corti, R., "Due funzioni della similitudine nella Thebaide di Stazio," Maia 29 (1987): 3-23 • Similes reflect the model S. uses to depict an episode but are still an integral part of the text. |
| Danglard, J., Sur Stace et surtout de ses Silves (Clermont-Ferrand: Ferdinand Thibauer, 1864) • (I) On Statius' relationship with his conpemporaries and his reception and influence in the Middle Ages; (II) His life and family; (III) On the composition of the Silvae, including their influence on Politian; (IV) The end of Statius' life and his relationship with Domitian; (V)-(XIV) Discussion of individual Silvae in groups. |
| Eissfeldt, E., "Zu den Vorbildern des Statius," Philologus 63 (1904): 378-424 |
| Esposito, Paolo, "La strana battaglia del finale della Tebaide," in Luigi Torraca, ed., Scritti in onore di Italo Gallo, Pubblicazioni dell'Università degli Studi di Salerno. Sezione Atti, convegni, miscellanee; 59 (Napoli: Ed. Scientifiche Italiane, 2002): 265-78 • Review: Amato, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.10 |
| Fantham, Elaine, Roman Readings: Roman Response to Greek Literature from Plautus to Statius and Quintilian, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 277 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011) |
| Fletcher, G.B.A., "Imitationes vel loci similes in poetis latinis: Statii Silvae," Mnemosyne 1 (1933-34): 193-194 • List of similarities that have escaped commentators. |
| Gärtner, Th., "Der Text der Statianischen Epen im Spiegel antiker Vorbilder und Imitationen," Prometheus: Rivista Quadrimestrale di Studi Classici 27 (2001): 233-49 • Analysis of imitations to get the true reading of several verses. The text at Theb. 8.554-558 is improved on the basis of Aen. 2.339-346. |
| Gärtner, Thomas, "Der Ninos-Roman als Vorbild fur die Hochzeitshandlung im ersten Buch der Achilleis des Statius," Hermes 138.3 (2010): 296-307 • Thematic elements, the relationship between Achilles and Lycomedes, and linguistic similarities suggest that Statius was influenced by the story of Ninus and Semiramis, which is found in papyrus dating to the second half of the first century. |
| Georgacopoulou, Sophia A., "Indices intertextuels et intergénériques: la présentation des coursiers d'Amphiaraüs et d'Admète au livre 6 de la Thébaïde de Stace (Theb. 6, 326-339)," Mnemosyne, Ser. 4, 49 (1996): 445-52 • An examination of Amphiaraus and Admetus (Theb. 6.326-339), including an analysis of textual references. |
| Helm, R., De P. Papinii Statii Thebaide (Berlin, 1892): 69-112 |
| Holford-Strevens, Leofranc, "In search of Poplios Papinios Statios," Hermathena 168 (2000): 39-54 • Statius' education by his father and familiarity with Greek literature (described in Silv. 5.3), when compared with surviving Latin commentaries and school curricula for Greek literature, suggests that the poet's works were heavily influenced by the Greek literary tradition. More than other Silver Latin writers, Statius' writings should be diligently read for their Greek sources and their Greek intertextualities. |
| Jannaccone, S., "Quo artificio P. Papinius Statius Achilleidi condendae operam dedit," Antiquitas 2-5 (1947-50): 79-83 • The sources of the Ach. and how S. used them. |
| Kuerschner, H., P. Papinius Statius quibus in Achilleide componenda usus esse videatur fontibus, Dissertation, Uni-Marburg, 1907 |
| Kytzler, B., "Imitatio and aemulatio in der Thebais des Statius," Hermes 97 (1969): 209-232 |
| Mauri, Riccardo, "Ricerca di modelli ellenistici nel proemio della Tebaide di Stazio," Acme 51.1 (1998): 221-25 • The proem of the Thebaid contains not only allusions to Hellestic models but also precise references to Callimachus' Aitia. |
| Mulder, H.M., "Fata vetant: De imitandi componendique in Achilleide ratione Statiana," in P. de Jonge et al., ed., Ut pictura poesis: Studia Latina P.J. Enk oblata (Leiden, 1955): 119-128 • The technique of variatio in S.'s imitation of his predecessors in the Achilleid, especially as regards Thetis' attempts at evading Destiny. |
| Parkes, R., "Who's the Father? Biological and Literary Inheritance in Statius' Thebaid," Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société Canadienne des études Classiques 63.1-2 (2009): 24-37 • "The accounts of Parthenopaeus' footrace in Book 6 and boar-hunt in Book 4 evoke previous literary representations of characters who are, or might be held to be, his parents, specifically Hippomenes, Meleager, the two Atalantas from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', and Milanion as depicted in Gallan elegy." |
| Reitz, C., "Hellenistische Züge in Statius' Thebaid," Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft n.f. 11 (1985): 129-234 • Uses idyllic and frivolic details to give a pathetic context a contrast. |
| Smolenaars, H., "The Poetic Technique of Multiple Imitation in Statius' Thebaid," Summary in AAPHA (1996) |
| Tanner, R. G., "Epic Tradition and Epigram in Statius," Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.32.5 (1986): 3020-3046 |
| Venini, P., "Studi sulla Tebaide di Stazio: L'imitazione," Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo, Classe di Lettere, Scienze morali e storiche 95 (1961): 371-400 • Contrary to general opinion, Statius does more than just quote his models. His utilization of them is subordinated to exigencies of the poem and rules of poetry. |
| Welcker, F.G., "Die Späteren Thebaiden, auch die des Statius," Allgemeine Schulzeitung 2 (1832): 158 ff. = Kleine Schriften, vol. 1 (1844): 395-401 |
| Ziehen, Julius, "Epencitate bei Statius," Hermes 31.2 (1896): 313-17 • Implicit references to extant and nonextant epics in Statius' works. On Ach. 1.588; Silv. 1.1.11 ff., 1.2.213-17, 3.1.71-75, 3.3.179-80, 4.5.27-28, 5.2.113-24; Th. 2.469 ff., 2.595 ff., 8.212 ff., 8.255 ff., and 10.61 ff. Link |
| Aeschylus |
| Marinis, Agis, "Statius' Thebaid and Greek Tragedy: The Legacy of Thebes," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 343-361 • Comparison of the poem with Aeschylus and Euripides. |
| Sicherl, M., "Die Tragik der Danaiden," Museum Helveticum 43 (1986): 81-110 • Evidence for Aeschylus' tragedy, gleaned from Statius. |
| Alcaeus |
| Flammini, Giuseppe, "La strofe alcaica dopo Orazio," Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia della Università di Macerata 40-41 (2007-2008) 39-59 • Use of the Alcaic strophe in Statius, Prudentius, and Claudian. |
| Lutterotti, Daniele, "Barbitos in Orazio, Ovidio e Stazio: Una parola motto," Atene e Roma: Rassegna trimestrale dell'Associazione Italiana di Cultura classica 59.3/4 (2015) 175-93 • "Barbitos in Horace, Ovid and Statius. The word was always of secondary importance in Latin literature, used as a motto indicating a programmatic reference to Alcaeus. |
| Antimachus |
| Criado Boado, C., "Antímaco de Colofón y la supercultura flavia", in J.L. Couceiro et al., edd., Homenaxe ó profesor Camilo Flores II (Santiago de Compostela 1999), 234-43 |
| Rossbach, O. "Eine übersehene Erwähnung des Antimachos," BPhW (1915): 253-6 • Statius uses Antimachus of Colopon at the beginning of the Thebaid, where he says he wants to limit his material. |
| Venini, P., "Ancora su Stazio e Antimaco," Athenaeum 50 (1972): 400-403 • Statius probably knew Antimachus, contrary to what Vessey says. |
| Vessey, David W.T.C., "Statius and Antimachus: A Review of the Evidence," Philologus 114.1/2 (1970): 118-43 |
| Antiochus |
| Carrara, Paolo, "Stazio e i primordia di Tebe: Poetica e polemica nel prologo della Tebaide," Prometheus 12 (1986): 146-158 • In the prologue, Statius is contrary to Antiochus. Statius is also different in that he has a divine force behind his choice of material. |
Apollonius Rhodius |
| Briguglio, Stefano, "Ipsipile tra Ovidio e l'epica flavia: Ritratti di signora," in Federica Bessone and Sabrina Stroppa, eds., Lettori latini e italiani di Ovidio: Atti del convegno, Università di Torino, 9-10 novembre 2017, Quaderni della Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale 18 (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2019), 41-49 |
| Dominik, William J., "Ratio et dei: Psychology and the Supernatural in the Lemnian Episode," in Carl Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 8, Collection Latomus 239 (Bruxelles: Latomus, 1997): 29-50 • Reviews: Chevallier, Revue des études latines 76 (1998): 459-460; Rochette, L'Antiquité classique 68 (1999): 390-91; Lamour, RBPh 78.1 (2000): 224-26 |
| Georgacopoulou, Sophia A., "Η επικη παραδοση και το ασμα του Απολλωνα στη Θηβαιδα του Στατιου: (Απολ. Ροδ. Αργον. 1,494-515 Βιργ. Αιν. 1,740-747 Στατ. Θηβ. 6,355-367)," Η μιμηση στη λατινικη λογοτεχνια: πρακτικα Ε' Πανελληνιου συμποσιου λατινικων σπουδων ('Αθηνα, 5-7 Νοεμβριου 1993) = Imitatio in litteris Latinis: acta quinti Symposii studiorum Latinorum totius Graeciae, ed. Dimitrios E. Koutroumpas (Athenis d. V-VII m. Novembris a. 1993) (Athina: Panepistimio Athinon, 1996), 345-63 • Ausonius' use of his sources, includine the Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and the Thebaid. |
| Stover, T., "Apollonius, Valerius Flaccus, and Statius: Argonautic Elements in Thebaid 3.499-647," The American Journal of Philology 130.3 (2009): 439-55 |
| Callimachus |
| Bornmann, F., "Note sulla fortuna di Callimaco a Roma," Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 114 (1986): 437-442 • A discussion of S.5.3.89-99, 1.2.76-77, 5.2.124 and Horace, Serm 1.6.45-6. |
| Chinn, Christopher Matthew, "Statius, Orpheus, and Callimachus: Thebaid 2.269-96," Helios 38.1 (2011) 79-10 |
| Fabbrini, Delphina, "Callimaco, SH 260A, 8 e le sorti di Molorco in Marziale, IV 64 e Stazio, Silvae III 1: il tema dell'ospitalità umile nella poesia celebrativa e d'occasione di età flavia," Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica 4th ser., 3.2 (2005): 195-222 • Examples of the Flavian desire to out-exemplify the virtues of simplicity and poverty. In Statius, the mention of the pauperis arua Molorchi is an anti-exemplum of humble hospitality, showing dominion over nature. |
| Lóio, Ana Maria, "Commemorating Events: the Victoria Sosibii in Statius, Silvae 4.3," Classical Quarterly N.S. 62.2 (2012): 281-85 • The intertextual references in the Via Domitiana to Callimachus, Victoria Sosibii (Fr. 384 Pfeiffer) (4.3.90) give new insights into how Statius used Callimachus. |
| Lóio, Ana Maria, "Commemorating Events: the Victoria Sosibii in Statius, Silvae 4.3," Classical Quarterly N.S. 62.2 (2012): 281-85 • The intertextual references in the Via Domitiana to Callimachus, Victoria Sosibii (Fr. 384 Pfeiffer) (4.3.90) give new insights into how Statius used Callimachus. |
| Mauri, Riccardo, "Ricerca di modelli ellenistici nel proemio della Tebaide di Stazio," Acme 51.1 (1998): 221-25 • The proem of the Thebaid contains not only allusions to Hellestic models but also precise references to Callimachus' Aitia. |
| McNelis, Charles, "Similes and Gender in the Achilleid, in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 189-204 • The first two similes of the poem (1.159-166 and 180-181) create an expectation of Achilles' gender in the rest of the poem. Includes a comparison with Callimachus (Lau.Pall. 17-32) and passages in Virgil. |
| Myers, Karen Sara, "Statius on Invocation and Inspiration," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 31-53 • Statius' innovations in the invocation of the Muses show his poetic originality. Discussion of his relationship with Callimachus. |
| Nauta, Ruurd Robijn, "The recusatio in Flavian Poetry," in Flavian Poetry, ed. Ruurd Robijn Nauta, Harm-Jan Van Dam, and Johannes Jacobus Louis Smolenaars, Mnemosyne Supplement 270 (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 21-40 • "Comparison is made to the use of recusatio by Callimachus and the Augustan poets with Flavian poets such as Valerius Flaccus, Statius, and Martial. Recusatio was still widely used in Flavian poetry to highlight the poet's choices in terms of style, theme, and genre ; and his attitude toward the emperor." |
| Radici Colace, P., "Il nuovo Callimaco di Lilli, Ovidio e Stazio," Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 110 (1982): 140-9 • Traces of the Berenice in Theb. 6. |
| Thomas, R.F., "Callimachus, the Victoria Berenices, and Roman poetry," Classical Quarterly 33 (1983): 92-113 |
| Catullus |
| Brugnoli, G., "Silio, Stazio, Ausonio e Foca Carm. de Verg. 38-39," Giornale italiano di filologia: Rivista trimestrale di cultura 40 (1988): 237-40 • Silius 8.209 could have come from Catullus 68.8 because of the way Statius read it. Silv. 3.5.1-2 contaminates the texts of Silius and Catullus. An echo of this is found in Focas, through Ausonius, Epic. In patr. 29-30, which comes directly from Statius. |
| Calandrino, I., Le poesie di Catullo ed altre versioni poetiche dal latino (Catania: Intelisano, 1937) • On Catullus' influence on S., Ovid, Tibullus, Propertius. |
| Chinn, Christopher M., "Statius' Ovidian Achilles," Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société Canadienne des études Classiques 67 (2013) 320-342 • An examination of Statius' engagement in the Achilleid with Ovid's Centauromachy (Met. 12.182-535). Statius comments not only on Ovid's presentation of these two centaurs, but also on Ovid's engagement in the centaur scene with Catullus (C. 64) and Lucretius (5.882-889). In the end Statius provides a complex meditation on hybris by examining Ovid's conceptions of species, gender, culture and, ultimately, poetics" (from LAPH). |
| Colton, R.E., "Echoes of Catullus and Martial in Statius, Silvae 4.9," L'Antiquité classique 46 (1977): 544-556 |
| Fusi, Alessandro, "Imitazione e critica del testo: Qualche esempio (Catullo, 51 11 sg. ; Marziale, I 116 2, IX 71 7)," in Giorgio Piras, ed., Labor in studiis: scritti di filologia in onore di Piergiorgio Parroni (Rome: Salerno, 2014), pp. 23-47 • Inter alia, on the imitation of Catullus 51.11-12 in Theb. 2.31. |
| Kozák, Dániel, "Weaving 'Catullan' Song: Achilles' Performances in Statius' Achilleid," Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 56 (2016) 65-80 • Achilles' first song (Ach. 1.188-194) has close parallels to Catullus 64. This intertextual relationship is also apparent in Achilles' other songs (1.572-583 and 2.157-158). All three passages also have weaving metaphors, emphasizing the relationship with Catullus. |
| Krasser, Helmut, "Poesie und Freundschaft: Zu literarischen und sozialen Dimensionen der Catull-Rezeption im 1. Jhdt. n. Chr.," Millennium: Jahrbuch zu Kultur und Geschichte des Ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. 15 (2018) 1-18 • On the reception of Catullus in Statius, Martial, and Pliny the Younger. |
| Lauletta, M., "L'imitazione di Catullo e l'ironia nell'Achilleide di Stazio," Latomus 52 (1993): 84-97 • On Statius' use of Catullus 63-64. |
| Maggiali, Giovanni, "La presenza di Catullo nelle Silvae di Stazio," pp. 77-90 of Giuseppe Gilberto Biondi, ed., Il Liber di Catullo: Tradizione, modelli e Fortleben, Quaderni di Paideia 14 (Cesena: Stilgraf Editrice, 2011) • Catullus has a strong presence in the Silvae in contrast to the Achilleid. |
| Maggiali, Giovanni, "La presenza di Catullo nelle Silvae di Stazio," pp. 77-90 of Giuseppe Gilberto Biondi, ed., Il Liber di Catullo: Tradizione, modelli e Fortleben, Quaderni di Paideia 14 (Cesena: Stilgraf Editrice, 2011) • Catullus has a strong presence in the Silvae in contrast to the Achilleid. |
| Marinčič, Marko, "L'angoscia dell'influenza, angoscia della morte: La morte di Achille tra Catullo, Virgilio e Stazio," Incontri di Filologia Classica 10 (2010-2011) 81-96 • Discussion of the depiction of Achilles in Catullus 64.323-380, Eclogues 4 and Georgics 4, and the Achilleid. Achilles is an ambiguous depiction of the Roman leader-statesman pretending to immortality. |
| Miyagi, Tokuya, "Tradition and Innovation of Epithalamium: Statius and Claudian," Classical Studies 11 (1994) 227-242 • "In Medea, Seneca used the conventional model of epithalamium established by Catullus. Statius introduced new elements to this literary form: 1. positive employment of epic techniques; 2. application of words and motifs used in love poetryand insertion of fictional love story; 3. influence of pastoral poetry; 4. creation of a special function of Venus as coniugator and pronuba. All these elements also appear in the epithalamia of Claudian who also has an important place in the tradition and became a model to his successors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." |
| Seo, J. Mira, "Statius Silvae 4.9 and the Poetics of Saturnalian Exchange," in R. Ferri, J.M. Seo and K. Volk, edd., Callida Musa: Papers on Latin Literature in Honor of R. Elaine Fantham, Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 61 (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2009): 243-56 • Review: Kershner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.08.46 On Statius' use Catullus 14 and Martial 4.88. |
| Wasdin, Katherine, "The Reluctant Bride: Greek and Roman Wedding Poems," PhD Dissertation (Yale University, 2009) • Summary in ProQuest dissertations database, ID 305042031; Discussion of Sappho, tragic wedding songs and choral odes, Aristophanic wedding songs, Theocritus Id. 18, Catullus 61, 62 and 64, Seneca's Medea, and the wedding poems of Statius and of Claudian. |
Cinna |
| Hinds, Stephen E., "Cinna, Statius, and 'Immanent Literary History' in the Cultural Economy," in Ernst A. Schmidt, ed., L'histoire littéraire immanente dans la poésie latine: Huit exposés suivis de discussions, Entretiens sue l'antiquité classique 47 (Vandoeuvres-Genève: Fondation Hardt, 2001): 221-57 |
| Corippus |
| Charlet, Jean-Louis, "L'hexamètre de Corippe dans la Johannide et dans le Panégyrique de Justin II," in Corippe: Un poète latin entre deux mondes, ed. Benjamin Goldlust, Collection Études et Recherches sur l'Occident Romain 50 (Paris: De Boccard, 2015), 337-346 • On Corippus' use of hexameters in comparison with Virgil, Statius, Claudian, and Prudentius. |
| Fridh, Å., "Funera dare in epic Latin poetry: A note on Corippus, Ioh. 2.108," Eranos 73 (1975): 112-115 • Emendation of the text based on Theb. 5.647. |
| Euripides |
| Álvarez Morán, María Consuelo and Rosa María Iglesias Montiel, "La Hipsípila de Estacio leía a Eurípides," in Francesco De Martino and Carmen Morenilla, edd., El teatro clásico en el marco de la cultura griega y su pervivencia en la cultura occidental 16, Teatro y sociedad en la Antigüedad clásica: palabras sabias de mujeres, Le Rane 59 (Bari: Levante, 2013), pp. 15-45 • Evidence that the fragmentary Hypsipile of Euripides was known to and used by Statius. |
| Aricò, G., "Stazio e l'Ipsipile euripidea: Note sull'imitazione staziana," Dioniso 35.3-4 (1961): 56-67 • Influence of Euripides in Books 4-6. |
| Bessone, Federica, "Teseo, la clementia e la punizione dei tiranni: Esemplarità e pessimismo nel finale della Tebaide," Dictynna: Revue de Poétique Latine 5 (2008): 3-56 • A reexamination of the end of the Thebaid shows Statius' opposition to tyranny. A comparison with Euripides' Supplicants and Seneca's Hercules furens shows the comparison of democracy and tyranny. |
| Bremmer, Jan N., "The Self-Sacrifice of Menoeceus in Euripides' Phoenissae, II Maccabees and Statius' Thebaid," Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 16 (2014) 193-207 • The self-sacrifice of a man has a higher psychological effect than a virgin's would have. |
| Criado, Cecilia, "The Constitutional Status of Euripidean and Statian Theseus: Some Aspects of the Criticism of Absolute Power in the Thebaid," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 291-306 • On the presence of Theseus in the Thebaid (especially 12.464-808) and its relationship with Euripides' Supplicants. |
| Fernandelli, Marco, "Statius' Thebaid 4.165-72 and Euripides' Phoenissae 1113-18," Symbolae Osloenses, auspiciis Societatis Graeco-Latine 75 (2000): 89-98 • The description of Capaneus' shield combines aspects of the shields of Adrastus (the emblem) and Hippomedon (the decorative pattern) in the second catalog in the Phoenissae. Includes some discussion of textual and linguistic problems of the Statius passage. |
| Iglesias, Rosa María; Álvarez, María Consuelo, "El treno de Hipsípila en la Tebaida de Estacio," in José Francisco González Castro, Antonio Alvar Ezquerra, Alberto Bernabé, et al., edd., Actas del XI congreso español de estudios clásicos (Santiago de Compostela, del 15 al 20 de septiembre de 2003) (Madrid: Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos, 2005) 2: 895-902 • Alanysis of Theb. 5.608-635, illustrating the influence of Euripides. |
| Marinis, Agis, "Statius' Thebaid and Greek Tragedy: The Legacy of Thebes," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 343-361 • Comparison of the poem with Aeschylus and Euripides. |
| Reussner, A., De Statio et Euripide, Dissertation, Uni-Halle, 1921 • Review: Wecklein, Philologische Wochenschrift (1923): 11 |
| Simms, Robert C., "Chronology and Canonicity in Jocasta's Intercessions in Statius' Thebaid," Illinois Classical Studies 39 (2014) 171-189 • Comparison with Jocasta's efforts to prevent the conflict between her sons in Statius with Stesichorus, Euripides, and Seneca. Statius's is unique, as Jocasta never stands between her sons. This modification of a traditional narrative creates uncertainty, adding to the suspense of the duel. |
| Soerink, Jörn, "Tragic/Epic: Statius' Thebaid and Euripides' Hypsipyle," in Antony Augoustakis, ed., Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, Mnemosyne Suppl. 366 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 171-191 • A comparison of the Nemean episode (4.646-7.104) with Euripides's Hypsipyle. "[The] Thebaid is profoundly tragic not only in that it reworks several Greek tragedies, but also in that its poetic universe is more like Seneca's nefas than the teleological world of Virgilian epic," (from LAPH).• Reviews: Davis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014; Manioti, Classical Review N.S. 65 (2015) 466-468; Dominik, Euphrosyne N.S. 43 (2015) 313-320; Ripoll L'Antiquité classique 85 (2016) 323-325 |
| Venini, P., "Echi lucanei nel L. xi della Tebaide," Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo, Classe di Lettere, Scienze morali e storiche 99 (1965): 149-167 • In the duel, traces from Euripides and Lucan, both in the sense of nefas and in certain stylistic elements. |
| Homer and the Homeric Hymns |
| Abrantes, Miguel Carvalho, "The Mystery of Achilles' Death," Humanitas (Coimbra) 71 (2018) 71-79 • On the myth of the death of Achilles in ancient art. |
| Ahl, Frederick, "Transgressing Boundaries of the Unthinkable: Sophocles, Ovid, Vergil, Seneca and Homer Refracted in Statius' Thebaid," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 240-265 |
| Bonadeo, Alessia, "Il Culex e la Batrachomachia in Stazio e in Marziale: Modelli canonici e coscienza di genere di una poesia minore," Sileno 41 (2015) 95-125 • On the meaning of Martial's and Statius' references to the poem. |
| Delarue, Fernand, "Titre(s): D'Homère à Stace, le combat contre le fleuve," Lalies: Actes des sessions de linguistique et de littérature 30, La Baume, 24-28 août 2009 (Paris: Éd. Rue d'Ulm, 2010): 233-41 • Statius' adaptation of Iliad 21 (Th. 9.225-569) shows the aesthetic of Statius' period, creating a phantasia or imaginary description that puts the impossible "before the eyes" of the reader. |
| Dunshirn, Alfred, "(An)gebundenes Delos? Zum Text des homerischen Apollonhymnus, Vers 53," Wiener Studien 123 (2010): 5-10 • Emendation based on Statius' partuque ligatam Delon (Theb. 8.197-98). |
| Georgacopoulou, Sophia A., "Jeu d'ironie tragique et jeu de voix à la fin du livre 2 de la Thébaïde de Stace," Échos du monde classique = Classical Views 40 (1996): 275-281 • An examination of Statius' strategies for expressing the tragic irony of Tydeus' mental blindness or caligo at the end of Book 2 of the Thebaid; and a consideration of the relationship between the same passage and certain passages in Iliad 10, Aeneid 11 and Thebaid 8. |
| Johnson, W. Ralph, "Information and Form: Homer, Achilles, and Statius," in Steven M. Oberhelman Van Kelly and Richard J. Golsan, edd., Epic and Epoch: Essays on the Interpretation and History of a Genre, Studies in comparative literature 24 (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Pr., 1994): 25-39 • On how the expectations of their respective audiences influenced the composition of the Iliad and the Achilleid. |
| Johnson, Walter Ralph, "Information and Form: Homer, Achilles, and Statius in Epic and Epoch," Essays on the Interpretation and History of a Genre, ed. Steven M. Oberhelman, Van Kelly and Richard J. Golsan, Studies in Comparative Literature: Texas Tech University 24 (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Pr., 1994), 25-39 • "On how the expectations of their respective audiences influenced the composition of Homer's Iliad and Statius' Achilleis." |
| Juhnke, Herbert, Homerisches in römischer Epik flavischer Zeit. Untersuchung zu Szenennachbildungen und Strukturentsprechungen in Statius' Thebais und Achilleis und in Silius' Punica, Zetemata; 53 (München, Beck, 1968) (Habil.-Schr, Kiel, 1968) |
| Klodt, C., "Homerisches in der Thebais des Statius?" in B. Effe, R.F. Glei, and C. Klodt, edd., Homer zweiten Grades: Zum Wirkungspotential eines Klassikers, Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium 79 (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009): 171-226 |
| Marshall, A.R., "Statius and the Veteres: Silvae 1.3 and the Homeric House of Alcinous," Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity 18 (2009) 78-88 |
| Most, Glenn W., "Das Kind ist Vater des Mannes: Von Rushdie zu Homer und zurück," Gymnasium 115.3 (2008): 209-36 • A comparison between Achilles' wrath in the Iliad and the protagonist in Rushdie's Fury. The portrayal of Achilles as a youth in comparison with the Achilleid shows that Achilles as a youth is seen as a smaller version of the grown Achilles, this the ancient view of a human as having a constant character. Discussion of the role of childhood stories in ancient literature. |
| Moul, Victoria A., "Quo rapis? Tone and Allusion at Aulis in Statius' Achilleid," Classical Quarterly N.S. 62.1 (2012) 286-300 • Ach. 1.397-559, the gathering of the troops at Aulis, mirrors the themes and structure of the work as a whole, especially in the epic blend of erotic or elegiac material. References to Aen. 2 invites us to read Statius' pre-Iliad as a post-Aeneid, in which Achilles' future glory and the fall of Troy are only a prelude to the reinvigoration of Trojan power in the form of Roman greatness. |
| Río Torres-Murciano, Antonio, "Monstrare lyra ueteres heroas (Stat., Ach., I, 118): Música y épica de Homero a Estacio," Nova Tellus 31 (2014) 185-198 • Statius uses the ancient tradition of music and Il. 9.186-189 in his depiction of Achilles singing. |
| Ripoll, François, "Adaptations latines d'un thème homérique: La théomachie," Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société Canadienne des études Classiques 60.3-4 (2006): 236-58 • The topos of the Theomachia (Il. 20-21) appears in four Latin epics. Petronius and Silius try to reproduce the Homeric schems. Virgil renews the topos into political allegory. Statius accentuates the anthropomorphism to enhance the hero Capaneus. |
| Sfyroeras, Pavlos Vlassios, "Like Purple on Ivory: A Homeric Simile in Statius' Achilleid," in Antony Augoustakis, ed., Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, Mnemosyne Suppl. 366 (Leiden: Brill, 2014) • On Ach 1.308. The image refers to the similar of Menalaus (Il. 4.141-147). In contrast with Ennius, Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid, Statius (1) does not limit his treatment of the simile to one passage but breaks it up into its constitutive parts, which he scatters across his Achilleid; and (2) recognizes in the Homeric simile the simultaneous presence of feminine and masculine elements, which he restores to create an emblem for his reading of the epic tradition as a whole. • Reviews: Davis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014; Manioti, Classical Review N.S. 65 (2015) 466-468; Dominik, Euphrosyne N.S. 43 (2015) 313-320; Ripoll L'Antiquité classique 85 (2016) 323-325 |
| Smolak, K., "Zu Statius und Homer," Wiener Studien n.F. 9 (1975): 148-51 • The death of Hippomedon in 9 has a starkness of death typical of Homer. |
| Smolenaars, J., "Quellen und Rezeption: die Verarbeitung homerischer Motive bei Valerius Flaccus und Statius," in eds. M. Korn and H. J. Tschiedel, edd., Ratis omnia vincet, Spudasmata 48 (Hildesheim: Olms, 1991): 57-71 |
| Taisne, A.M., "Presence d'Homere dans l'Achilleide de Stace," Vox Latina 178 (2008): 94-103 |
| Taous, Tatiana, "Les dénominations du champ de bataille dans l'Iliade, l'Ilias latina, la Thébaïde et le Roman de Thèbes: Linguistique et poétique," in Marie-Ange Julia, ed., Nouveaux horizons sur l'espace antique et moderne: actes du symposium "Invitation au voyage" juin 2013, Lycée Henri IV, Scripta receptoria 2 (Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2015), pp. 245-271 with plate • A study of battlefields in Homer, Baebius Italicus, and Statius, and the motifs of blood, dirt, and desolation. • Reviews: Bretin-Chabrol, Vox Latina 193-194 (2016) 264-265 |
| Vélez Latorre, José Manuel, "'¿Vale todo en una guerra?': Subversión del código épico-heroico (y re-homerización) en el libro 10 de la Tebaida de Estacio," in Ianua classicorum: Temas y formas del mundo clásico : Actas del XIII Congreso Español de Estudios Clásicos, ed. Jesús de la Villa Polo, Patricia Cañizares Ferriz, and Emma Falque Rey, 3 vols. (Madrid: Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos, 2015), 2:547-553 • Book 10 of the Thebaid is modeled on Iliad 10 and Aeneid 9 but there are also interactions with Aeneid 2: "Faced with the teleological epic of the 'Aeneid' (the fall of Troy will lead to a more glorious destiny, determined by Jupiter and a positive fatum), in the fight for Thebes there are no winners: all are losers." |
| Voigt, Astrid, "The Intertextual Matrix of Statius' Thebaid 11.315-23," Dictynna: Revue de Poétique Latine 12 (2015) • In Theb. 11.315-323, Statius uses several other passages (esp. Hom. Il. 22.437-476, Verg. Aen. 9.473-480, Theb. 4.562 and 569, Sen. Phoen. 363-367) to depict Jocasta as a pious, grieving, Theban, Roman, and epic mother. |
| Horace |
| Galand-Hallyn, P., "Quelques coïncidences (paradoxales?) Entre l'épître aux pisons d'Horace et la poétique de la silve (au début du XVIe siècle en France)," Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 60 (1998) 609-39 |
| Georgacopoulou, Sophia A., "Jeu d'ironie tragique et jeu de voix à la fin du livre 2 de la Thébaïde de Stace," Échos du monde classique = Classical Views 40 (1996): 275-281 • An examination of Statius' strategies for expressing the tragic irony of Tydeus' mental blindness or caligo at the end of Book 2 of the Thebaid; and a consideration of the relationship between the same passage and certain passages in Iliad 10, Aeneid 11 and Thebaid 8. |
| Kershner, Stephen M., "Self-Fashioning and Horatian Allusion in Statius's Silvae, PhD Dissertation (State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008) •. Summary in ProQuest dissertations database, ID 304381579 |
| Kershner, Stephen M., "Statius as Horatian Priest of the Muses in Silvae 2.7," in Carl Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 15, Collection Latomus 323 (Bruxelles: Éditions Latomus, 2010): 311-34 • Statius' praise of Lucan and his self-representation as a Horatian priest of the Muses serve to promote Statius' Statius own role as poet. • Review: Crane, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.07.39 |
| Kozák, Dániel, "Si forte reponis Achillem: Achilles in the Ars poetica, the Metamorphoses, and the Achilleid," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 72 (2014) 207-221 |
| Myers, Karen Sara, "Ambiguus vultus: Horatian echoes in Statius' Achilleid," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 75 (2015) 179-188 • The depiction of Achilles as warrior and passionate lover echoes Horace. |
| Nagle, R., "Statius' Horatian Lyrics, Silvae 4.5 and 4.7," The Classical World 102.2 (2009): 143-57 • Statius makes use of Horatian forms and motifs, such as the simple house in the country and the literary help of a friend, but his tone is fervent and sincere, rather than dry and ironic. Statius is also fully aware of Horace's generic choices, but makes different choices for his own work with no apparent anxiety. With many literary allusions, the poor and humble poet praises the wealth and public accomplishments of Septimius Severus and Vibius Maximus, and at the same time shows how like-minded they are in their attitudes to literature, friendship, and wealth. |
| Newlands, C.E., "Horace and Statius at Tibur: An Interpretation of Silvae 1.3," Illinois Classical Studies 13 (1988): 95-111 • Silv. 1.3 is a mannerist poem, indebted to Horace, Odes 4.2, 4.3 and Ep. 1.10 et al. Statius seeks to undermine Vopiscus' life and poetry. |
| Livy |
| Lovatt, Helen, "Cannibalising History: Livian Moments in Statius' Thebaid," in John F. Miller and A. J. Woodman, edd., Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire: Generic Interactions, Mnemosyne Suppl. 321 (Leiden, 2010): 71-86 • The death of Tydeus (Th. 8.757-762) has an analogue in Livy's account of the aftermath of Cannae (22.51.9). In the Thebaid, the Argives are frequently mapped onto defeated Romans, while in tragic mode the Thebans take on Roman roles. In contrast with Silius Italicus, Statius takes bits and pieces of history and puts them into new contexts. |
| Soubiran, J., "De Coriolan à Polynice: Tite-Live modèle de Stace," in J. Bibauw, ed., Hommages à Marcel Renard I, Collection Latomus 101 (1969): 689-699 • The meeting of Jocasta and Polynices (Theb. 7.470-533) is inspired by Livy 2.40, where Veturia meets Coriolanus. |
| Lucan |
| Bardon, H., "Notes sur la littérature impériale 2: Hypothèse sur l'Octavia," Latomus (1939): 253-8 • Silv. 2.7.58-9 suggests that the tragedy was written by Lucan. |
| Bartolomé, Jesús, "El proemio de la Farsalia de Lucano y su recepción. 1," Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Latinos 29 (2009) 25-44 • On the influence of the preface to Lucan's De bello civile in his literary successors. Special focus is on the reception of Lucan in Statius' Thebaid. |
| Bernstein, Neil Warren, "Stimulant manes: The Ghost in Lucan, Statius, and Silius Italicus," Dissertation, Duke, 2000 |
| Buchheit, V., "Lucans Pharsalia und die Frage der Nichtvollendung," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 104 (1961): 362-365 • In Silv. 2.7, Statius pays witness to the incomplete nature of the Pharsalia, proving the thesis of H. Haffter (1957). |
| Carderi, Flavia, "Ekphrasis e non-ekphrasis nella Pharsalia di Lucano: Suggestioni lucanee in Stazio," in Fabrice Galtier and Rémy Poignault, edd., "Présence de Lucain, Caesarodunum bis 48-49 (Clermont-Ferrand: Centre de recherches A. Piganiol-Présence de l'Antiquité, 2016), pp. 123-137 • The use of Lucan. 9.511-527 and 10.111-126 in Theb. 12.481-496 and 1.144-151, respectively. |
| Delarue, Fernand, "De Lucain aux épiques flaviens: Dieux et hommes," in Fabrice Galtier and Rémy Poignault, edd., "Présence de Lucain, Caesarodunum bis 48-49 (Clermont-Ferrand: Centre de recherches A. Piganiol-Présence de l'Antiquité, 2016), pp. 237-258 • Influence of Lucan on Valerius Flaccus and Statius. |
| Esposito, Paolo, "Virtus e morte esemplare del leo mansuetus: Stat. silv. 2, 5 e Lucano IV," in Paolo Arduini, ed., Studi offerti ad Alessandro Perutelli (Roma: Aracne, 2008): 1.451-60 • The amplificatio in the death of the lion shows his aristeia, recalling Lucan 4. |
| Ganiban, Randall, "Crime in Lucan and Statius," in Paolo Asso, ed., Brill's Companion to Lucan (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 327-344 • "On the ways in which the Bellum ciuile functioned as a model for the Thebaid in employing the idea of unspeakable crime as a narrative theme" (from LAPH). • Reviews: Gärtner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012; Galli Milić, Museum Helveticum 69 (2012) 219-220; Kimmerle, Sehepunkte 12 (2012; Roche, Classical Review N.S. 62 (2013) 122-124; Buckley, Journal of Roman Studies 103 (2013) 331-332; Habermehl, Altertum 59 (2014) 56-60 |
| Gärtner, Thomas, "Saevos mediae veniemus in ignes: (Stat. Theb. XII 446)," Maia 2007 59 (1): 60-61 • The phrase is derived from Lucan 3.30-31. |
| Hoffmann, Manfred, "Statius, Thebais 5.593," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 144.1 (2001): 111-12 • Against the conjecture of A.J. Gossage , the phrase fulminis in morem recalls Aen. 11.616 and in funere primo recalls Lucan 2.21. |
| Kershner, Stephen M., "Statius as Horatian Priest of the Muses in Silvae 2.7," in Carl Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 15, Collection Latomus 323 (Bruxelles: Éditions Latomus, 2010): 311-34 • Statius' praise of Lucan and his self-representation as a Horatian priest of the Muses serve to promote Statius' Statius own role as poet. • Review: Crane, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.07.39 |
| Lovatt, Helen, "Competing Endings: Re-reading the End of Statius' Thebaid through Lucan", Ramus 28.2 (1999) 126-51 |
| Manolaraki, Eleni, "Aeriae grues: Crane migrations from Virgil to Statius," Classical Journal 107.3 (2011-12): 290-311 • Examination of the topos of crane migrations illustrates the ideological and meta-poetical development of this motif in its home genre. Each poet's adaptation of his predecessors' crane motifs alludes to the characters, themes, and ideological underpinnings of his own epic. Influence of Lucan on Statius and the heuristic value of migration as a cultural and literary experience. |
| McGann, M.J., "Lucan's De incendio urbis: The Evidence of Statius," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 105 (1975): 213-7 • The reference at Silv. 2.7.60-61 seems to refer to a work in prose. |
| Mensching, E., "Lukans Schriftenverzeichnis bei Statius (Silv. 2.7)," Hermes 97 (1969): 252-55 |
| Michler, W., De P. Papinio Statio M. Annaei Lucani imitatore (Breslau: Nischkowsky, c. 1915). • Reviews: Weyman, Historisches Jahrbuch (1915): 212. Schuster, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 212 (1927): 139 |
| Micozzi, Laura, "Aspetti dell'influenza di Lucano nella Tebaide," in Paolo Esposito and Luciano Nicastri, edd., Interpretare Lucano: Miscellanea di studi, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Università degli Studi di Salerno 22 (Napoli: Arte Tipografica, 1999): 343-87 • Reviews: De Rosa, BstudLat 30.2 (2000): 716-24; Di Salvo, Maia 53.3 (2001): 739-45; Franchet d'Espèrey, Revue des études latines 79 (2001): 312-13; Augoustakis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.2; Hunink, Classical Review n.s. 52.1 (2002): 68-70; Carratello, Giornale italiano di filologia: Rivista trimestrale di cultura 54.2 (2002): 282-84; Walde, Museum Helveticum 59.4 (2002): 263; Loupiac, Latomus 62.3 (2003): 729-30; Corsaro, Orpheus n.s. 24.1-2 (2003): 280-87 |
| Micozzi, L., "Memoria diffusa di luoghi lucanei nella Tebaide di Stazio," in P. Esposito and E.M. Ariemma, edd., Lucano e la tradizione dell' epica latina. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi Fisciano-Salerno, 19-20 ottobre 2001, Università degli studi di Salerno. Quaderni del Dipartimento di scienze dell' antichità (Napoli: Guida, 2004): 137-51 |
| Narducci, Emanuele, Lucano: Un'epica contro l'impero: interpretazione della Pharsalia, Percorsi 34 (Roma: Laterza, 2002) • Reviews: Asso, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.7; Scivoletto, Giornale italiano di filologia: Rivista trimestrale di cultura 54.2 (2002): 284-87; Corsaro, Orpheus 23.1-2 (2002): 273-77; Degl'Innocenti Pierini, Prometheus 28.3 (2002): 278-82; Ariemma, BStudLat 33.1 (2003): 220-27; Leigh, Journal of Roman Studies 93 (2003): 385-86; Cova, Athenaeum 92.1 (2004): 327-29; Esposito, Maia 56.1 (2004): 167-74; Loupiac, Latomus 64.2 (2005): 514-15; Desy, RBPh 83.1 (2005): 207-208 |
| Newlands, Carole, "The First Biography of Lucan: Statius' Silvae 2.7," in Paolo Asso, ed., Brill's Companion to Lucan (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 435-451 • Reviews: Gärtner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012; Galli Milić, Museum Helveticum 69 (2012) 219-220; Kimmerle, Sehepunkte 12 (2012; Roche, Classical Review N.S. 62 (2013) 122-124; Buckley, Journal of Roman Studies 103 (2013) 331-332; Habermehl, Altertum 59 (2014) 56-60 |
| Ripoll, François, "La mutilation oculaire: formes et sens d'un motif guerrier de la Pharsale aux épopées flaviennes," in Fabrice Galtier and Rémy Poignault, edd., "Présence de Lucain, Caesarodunum bis 48-49 (Clermont-Ferrand: Centre de recherches A. Piganiol-Présence de l'Antiquité, 2016), pp. 259-280 • Influence of Lucan on Statius and Silius Italicus. |
| Roche, Paul, "Lucan's De bello civili in the Thebaid," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 393-407 |
| Soerink, Jörn, "Statius' Nemea: Paradise Lost," Dictynna: Revue de Poétique Latine 12 (2015) • The Nemean episode Theb. 4.646-7.104) is not a digression but rather presents epic and political themes. The battle between the Nemeans and the Argives recalls Caesar and Pompey (from Lucan). The serpent recalls Georg. 3.425-439. The passage results in the destruction of the pastoral world and the impossibility of the Golden Age, taken from Ecl. 4. |
| Stachon, Markus, "Zu den verlorenen Werken Lucans," Maia 68 (2016) 689-700 • Testimony of the Silvae and other works. |
| Venini, P., "Echi lucanei nel L. xi della Tebaide," Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo, Classe di Lettere, Scienze morali e storiche 99 (1965): 149-167 • In the duel, traces from Euripides and Lucan, both in the sense of nefas and in certain stylistic elements. |
| Venini, P., "Ancora sull'imitazione senecana e lucanea nella Tebaide di Stazio," Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 95 (1967): 418-427 • They determine some of the fundamental motifs of the Theb. and in Statius' view of myth. |
| Zweierlein, O., "Statius, Lucan, Curtius Rufus und das hellenistische Epos," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 131 (1988): 67-84 • On Theb. 1 and 11, Lucan 6, Curtius Rufus 9.5. |
| Lucretius |
| Duret, L., "De Lucrece aux silves de Stace (à propos des Silves 5.3.19-28)," Revue des études latines 58 (1980): 344-362 |
| Galzerano, Manuel, "Ending with World Destruction: A Closural Device in Lucretius' De rerum natura and its Influence on Later Latin Poetry," Graeco-Latina Brunensia 22 (2017) 43-55 • Virgil, Manilius, and Statius (Theb. 7.809-817) apocalyptic passages are based on Lucretius 1.1104-1117, 2.1105-1174, and 6.596-607. |
| Hardie, Philip R., "Lucretian Multiple Explanations and Their Reception in Latin Didactic and Epic," in Marco Beretta and Francesco Citti, edd., Lucrezio, la natura e la scienza, Biblioteca di Nuncius 66 (Firenze: Olschki, 2008): 69-96 • Lucretius' tendency to give multiple alternative explanations affected later epics, including Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Statius. |
| Nepi, G., "Docti furor arduus Lucretii," Latinitas 12 (1964): 254-265 • Commentary, in the form of a fictitious conversation, on Silv. 2.7.76. |
| Rosati, G., "Il dolce delitto di Lemno: Lucrezio e l'amore-guerra nell' Ipsipile di Stazio," in R. Raffaelli, R.M. Danese, M.R. Falivene, and L. Lomiento, edd., Vicende di Ipsipile da Erodoto a Metastasio. Colloquio di Urbino, 5-6 maggio 2003, Letteratura a Antropologia 9 (Urbino: Edizioni Quattro Venti, 2005): 141-68 |
| Serrao, M., "Influenze lessicali di Lucrezio sull' opera epica di Stazio," Anazetesis 6-7 (1982): 18-23 |
| Taisne, Anne-Marie, "Le De rerum natura et la Thébaïde de Stace," in Rémy Poignault, ed., Présence de Lucrèce: Actes du colloque tenu à Tours, 3-5 décembre 1998, Caesarodunum bis 32 (Tours: Centre de recherches A. Piganiol, Université de Tours, 1999): 165-75 • Reviews: Filée, Les Études Classiques 69.1 (2001): 102-103; Novara, Revue des études latines 79 (2001): 427-28; Laigneau, RBPh 79.1 (2001): 267-69; Volpilhac-Auger, Latomus 62.4 (2003): 922-23 |
| Taisne, Anne-Marie, "Le De rerum natura et la Thébaïde de Stace," in Rémy Poignault, ed., Présence de Lucrèce: Actes du colloque tenu à Tours, 3-5 décembre 1998, Caesarodunum bis 32 (Tours: Centre de recherches A. Piganiol, Université de Tours, 1999): 165-75 • Reviews: Filée, Les Études Classiques 69.1 (2001): 102-103; Novara, Revue des études latines 79 (2001): 427-28; Laigneau, RBPh 79.1 (2001): 267-69; Volpilhac-Auger, Latomus 62.4 (2003): 922-23 |
| Lycophron |
| Durbec, Yannick, "Stace, Achilleide, 20-51 et l'Alexandra de Lycophron," La Parola del passato: Rivista di studi antichi 65.372 (2010): 208-12 • Alex. 20-27 is a model for Statius. |
| Menander |
| Garzya, A., "Stace et Ménandre," L'Antiquité Classique 25 (1956): 412-16 • At Silv. 3.5.93 ff., libertas Menandri refers to the semnotes logou of the poet. |
| Nicander |
| Cazzaniga, I., "Alcuni colori nicandrei in Stazio e Claudiano," Acme 12 (1959): 125-9 • Influence on Statius' Nemean snake (Theb. 5.505 ff.) and on Claudianus, Gigant. 2.25. |
| Ovid |
| Ahl, Frederick, "Transgressing Boundaries of the Unthinkable: Sophocles, Ovid, Vergil, Seneca and Homer Refracted in Statius' Thebaid," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 240-265 |
| Aricò, G., "Ovidio in Stazio, Theb. 5.505 ss.," Aevum 37 (1963): 120-23 • The model is Ovid, Met. 3.28-94. |
| Ariemma, Enrico Maria, "Il malaugurio delle ninfe e la matrigna duplicata: Echi virgiliani (e ovidiani) in alcune Silvae di Stazio," Vichiana 5 (1994): 78-94 • On the lamentations of nymphs in Aen. 4.166-70; Ovid, Her. 7.95-98; and Silv. 3.1.73-75, 4.2.1-2, and 5.2.118-20. |
| Bessone, Federica, "Love and War: Feminine Models, Epic Roles, and Gender Identity in Statius's Thebaid," in Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison M. Keith, edd., Women and War in Antiquity (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), pp. 119-137 • On the characterization of Argia, comparing Theb. 4.200-210 and 12.134-136 and 177-186 with Plato (Smp. 179) and Ovid (Epist. 13.31-42). • Reviews: Weiberg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016 |
| Briguglio, Stefano, "Ipsipile tra Ovidio e l'epica flavia: Ritratti di signora," in Federica Bessone and Sabrina Stroppa, eds., Lettori latini e italiani di Ovidio: Atti del convegno, Università di Torino, 9-10 novembre 2017, Quaderni della Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale 18 (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2019), 41-49 |
| Chinn, Christopher M., "Statius' Ovidian Achilles," Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société Canadienne des études Classiques 67 (2013) 320-342 • An examination of Statius' engagement in the Achilleid with Ovid's Centauromachy (Met. 12.182-535). Statius comments not only on Ovid's presentation of these two centaurs, but also on Ovid's engagement in the centaur scene with Catullus (C. 64) and Lucretius (5.882-889). In the end Statius provides a complex meditation on hybris by examining Ovid's conceptions of species, gender, culture and, ultimately, poetics" (from LAPH). |
| Colton, R.E., "Parrot poems in Ovid and Statius," The Classical Bulletin 43 (1967): 71-78 • How S. is influenced by Ovid's Amores. |
| Corti, R., "Le terga del cavallo. Nota a Stazio, Theb. 10.227-235 e Ovidio, Met. 12.399-402," Maia 38 (1986): 27-31 • Similarity with Georg. 3.72-80. |
| Criado, Cecilia, "La casa de Edipo en la Tebaida ovidiana," in José Francisco González Castro and Jesús de la Villa Polo, edd., Perfiles de Grecia y Roma: Actas del XII Congreso Español de Estudios Clásicos, Valencia, 22 al 26 de octubre de 2007, 2 (Madrid: Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos, 2010), pp. 849-855 |
| Criado, Cecilia, "Teologías y teodiceas épicas: Estacio y la perspectiva ovidiana," Emerita 79.2 (2011): 251-75 • Jupiter in Statius is a mixture of Ovid's rector Olympi and Seneca's ciuitatis rector, making the figure theological and political. |
| Davis, Peter J., "Allusion to Ovid and others in Statius' Achilleid," Ramus 35.2 (2006): 129-43 • Statius' central characters simultaneously recall their Ovidian prototypes and differ markedly from them. |
| Deipser, B., De P. Papinio Statio Vergilii et Ovidii imitatore Strassburg, Dissertationes Philologicae, 5 (1881) |
| Delarue, F., "Le palais du Sommeil: d'Ovide à Stace," LALIES: actes des sessions de linguistique et de littérature 10 (Aussois, 29 août-3 septembre 1988; 28 août-2 septembre 1989) (Paris: Presse de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1992): 405-410 (with summaries in French and English) • Although Theb. 10.84-145 imitates Ovid, Met. 11.592-649, Statius is completely original. He creates the perception of an authentic experience. |
| Dietrich, Jessica Shaw, "Dead parrots society," The American Journal of Philology 123.1 (2002): 95-110 • Silv. 2.4 makes use of catalogs of birds at 16-23 and 26-28, which play off of Ovid (Am. 2.6; Met. 2.544-65, 5.677-78, 8.236-59, 6.424-674) in order to locate Statius within the Latin tradition and to comment on the changing role of the poet under the emperors. |
| Falcone, Maria Jennifer, "Nostrae fatum excusabile culpae: Dal modello elegiaco ovidiano all' Ipsipile di Stazio," Athenaeum 99.2 (2011): 491-98 • The Hypsipyle passage used the language of the abandoned heroine adopted from elegy, which highlights the ideological distance: the passionate love of the protagonist is completely absent. |
| Fantuzzi, Marco, "Achilles and the improba virgo: Ovid, Ars am. 1.681-704 and Statius, Ach. 1.514-35 on Achilles at Scyros," in Theodore D. Papanghelis, Stephen J. Harrison, and Stavros Frangoulidis, edd., Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature: Encounters, Interactions and Transformations, Trends in Classics, Supplementary volume 20 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), pp. 151-168 • Calchas' speech is a retelling of Ovid's narrative, that Achilles would adhere to his twin destiny as martial hero and great lover. Statius' Calchas has the same tone of indignation over the destiny of the character Achilles that Ovid had in the Ars. There are echoes of this later when Achilles adresses his own transvesticisim (1.619-639). Discussion of the expression improba uirgo at (1.535). • Reviews: Pieri, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014; Hudson, Journal of Roman Studies 105 (2015) 414-415 |
| Feeney, Denis C., "Tenui... latens discrimine: Spotting the Differences in Statius' Achilleid," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 52 (2004) (Glenn W. Most and Sarah Spence, edd., Re-presenting Virgil: Special issue in honor of Michael C. J. Putnam): 85-106 • Statius simultaneously used Virgil and Ovid in the Achilleid. |
| Fucecchi, Marco, "Ambitions de primauté et épopée inclusive: les poètes flaviens devant le couple Virgile-Ovide," in Séverine Clément-Tarantino and Florence Klein, edd., La représentation du couple Virgile-Ovide dans la tradition culturelle de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Cahiers de philologie 32: Série: Apparat critique (Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Pr. Universitaires du Septentrion, 2015), 41-56 • On the Virgil-Ovid couple in Theb. 12.810-815, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. |
| Gärtner, Thomas, "Wer weint bei Stat. Theb. III 546?," Eikasmos 15 (2004): 343-45 • On the basis of the reference to Ovid Met. 2.655 ff., the interrgative quid furtim illacrimas? should be ascribed to Melampus and not Amphiaraos. |
| Hardie, Ph.R, "Statius' Ovidian poetics and the tree of Atedius Melior (Silvae 2, 3)," in R.R. Nauta, H.-J. van Dam, and J.J.L. Smolenaars, edd., Flavian Poetry, Mnemosyne suppl. 207 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 207-22 • Silvae 2.3 and 2.4 contain allusions to Ovid's Metamorphoses and Am. 2.6. Silvae 2.3 "cooks up a narrative and descriptive confection that combines Horatian topics of praise and self-praise with an Ovidian tale of metamorphosis." |
| Haynes, Melissa, "Written in Stone: Literary Representations of the Statue in the Roman Empire," PhD Dissertation (Harvard University, 2009) • Summary in ProQuest dissertations database, ID 304891112; Discussion of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Favorinus' Corinthian oration, Propertius 4.2, Silv. 1.1 and 4.6, Petronius 126-132, and a fictional letter of Alciphron. |
| Heslin, P., "Ovid's Cycnus and Homer's Achilles Heel," in L. Fulkerson and T. Stover, edd., Repeat Performances: Ovidian Repetition and the Metamorphoses (Madison, WI, 2016), pp. 69-99 • Statius' myth of Achilles' heel is derived from Ovid. |
| Invernizzi, Simone, "Presenze ovidiane nelle glose alla Tebaide ascritte a Ilario d'Orléans," in Filippo Bognini, ed., Meminisse iuvat: Studi in memoria di Violetta De Angelis (Pisa, 2012), 473-94 • Citations from Ovid in the in principio commentary on the Thebaid. |
| Keith, A., "Ovidian Personae in Statius's Thebaid," Arethusa 35.3 (2002): 381-402 • On the development of Ovidian characters in the Thebaid, especially the house of Oedipus, Tydeus and Parthenopaeus, the fury Tisiphone, and the seer Tiresias. |
| Keith, A., "Ovid's Theban narrative in Statius' Thebaid," in D. Nelis, ed., Aetas Ovidiana, Hermathena 177-178 (2004-2005): 181-208 • Statius acknowledges his interest in Ovid's Metamorphoses in the prolog to his Thebaid where he reviews the history of Thebes that he will not narrate (1.4-17). The subjects he eschews constitute the core of Ovid's Theban narrative (Met. 2.836-834 and 603). The affiliation of the poems is not limited to theme. The Thebaid can be interpreted, in part, as an exploration of the themes, settings, characters, and literary genealogy of Ovid's narrative. |
| Keith, A.M., "Imperial Building Projects and Archtiectural Ecphrases in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Statius' Thebaid," Mouseion 7.1 (2007): 1-26 • Statius' Thebaid is indebted not only to Met. 3.1-4 and 605, but also to the larger literary and imperial programs of the Metamorphoses. Statius' descriptions are examined in relation both to the architectural settings of the Metamorphoses and contemporary architectural programs. Particular focus is on the layout, decoration, and use-patterns of the royal households of Thebes (1.46-52, 7.243-252, and 8.607-654) and Argos (1.386-536), as well as on the palace-temples of Jupiter, Mars, and Dis (1.197-212, 7.40-63, and 8.21-83) in conjunction with their Ovidian and contemporary imperial models. |
| Klodt, C., "Ad uxorem in eigener Sache. Das Abschlussgedicht der ersten drei Silvenbücher des Statius vor dem Hintergrund von Ovids Autobiographie: (Trist. 4, 10) und seinen Briefen an die Gattin," in M. Reichel, ed., Antike Autobiographien. Werke - Epochen - Gattungen, Europäische Geschichtsdarstellungen 5 (Köln: Böhlau, 2005): 185-222 |
| Kozák, Dániel, "Si forte reponis Achillem: Achilles in the Ars poetica, the Metamorphoses, and the Achilleid," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 72 (2014) 207-221 |
| Laguna Mariscal, Gabriel, "Statius' Silvae 3.5.44-49 and the Genre of Ovid's Heroides," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 137.3/4 (1994): 352-57 • With "Latias Graias heroidas" (Silv. 3.5.45), Statius does does not mean Roman and Greek heroines but rather Latin and Greek works that fallinto the genre of Ovid's Heroides. |
| Lefèvre, Eckard, "Die Metamorphose des catullischen Sperlings in einen Papagei bei Ovid (Amores 2.6) und dessen Apotheose bei Statius, Strozzi, Lotichius, Beza und Passerat," in Werner Schubert, ed., Ovid, Werk und Wirkung: Festgabe für Michael von Albrecht zum 65. Geburtstag, Studien zur klassischen Philologie 100 (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1999): 1.111-35 |
| Micozzi, L., "A lezione di ars amatoria nell'Achilleide," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 59 (2007): 127-44 • Statius uses Ovidian elegiac imagery in creating Achilles. |
| Micozzi, Laura, "Statius' Epic Poetry: A Challenge to the Literary Past," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 325-342 • A comparison of the characters in the poem with their predecessors, in particular Ovid's Met, which illustrates the intertextual irony in the poem. |
| Morzadec, Françoise, "Métamorphoses du paysage d' Oivde à Stace: Le 'paysage ovidien'dans la Silve II. 3," in E. Bury and M. Néraudau, edd., Lectures d'Ovide publiées à la mémoire de Jean-Pierre Néraudau (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2003): 89-106 |
| Mozley, J.H., "Statius as an imitator of Vergil and Ovid," The Classical World 27 (1933): 33-38 • Statius has a tendency to paraphrase his models, to employ researched expessions and show details of learning, and finally to create a sentimental element. Includes a list of passages. |
| Newlands, Carole Elizabeth, "Statius and Ovid: Transforming the Landscape," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 134.1 (2004): 133-55 • Three landscapes that illustrate the Thebaid's debt to Ovid are the sacred grove of Diana (4.419-442), the Nemean grove (Books 4-6), and the river landscape of the Ismenos (9.360-373). These landscapes are disconnected from the gods and provide a canvas on which Statius displays the evil of the war. Humans are held accountable for the destruction of the state as much as for the loss of a paradise described in Ovidian terms as a locus amoenus. |
| Newlands, Carole Elizabeth, "Animal Claquers: Statius Silv. 2.4 and 2.5," in William W. Batstone and Garth Tissol, edd., Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature: Essays Presented to William S. Anderson on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday, Lang classical studies 15 (New York: Lang, 2005): 151-73 • Silv. 2.4 and 2.5 rewrite Ovid for the Flavian age, placing a positive value on luxury and withdrawal. Drawing on the traditions of the fable, Statius can be seen as a new authoritative voice that locates social criticism in praise itself. |
| Newlands, Carole Elizabeth, "'Fastos adulatione foedatos?' (Tac. Hist. 4, 40, 2): Stazio sui Fasti di Ovidio," in Giuseppe La Bua, ed., Vates operose dierum: Studi sui Fasti di Ovidio, Testi e studi di cultura classica 48 (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2010): 155-68 |
| Parkes, R., "Hercules and the Centaurs: Reading Statius with Vergil and Ovid," Classical Philology 104.4 (2009): 476-94 • "On the relationship of the Thebaid to Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses in their treatment of Hercules and the Centauromachy. Not only does Statius draw on the comparative tactics employed by Vergil and Ovid in their inclusion of Hercules, he also systematically mines and combines relevant passages from them. In the process, he manipulates our reading of these texts." |
| Ripoll, François, "Stace entre Virgile et Ovide dans l'Achilléide," in Séverine Clément-Tarantino and Florence Klein, edd., La représentation du couple Virgile-Ovide dans la tradition culturelle de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Cahiers de philologie 32: Série: Apparat critique (Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Pr. Universitaires du Septentrion, 2015), pp. 57-71 |
| Rosati, Gianpiero, 1994, "Momenti e forme della fortuna antica di Ovidio: l'Achilleide di Stazio," in Michelangelo Picone and Bernhard Zimmermann, edd., Ovidius redivivus. Von Ovid zu Dante (Stuttgart: Metzler & Poeschel Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1994): 43-62 |
| Rosati, Gianpiero, "Momenti e forme della fortuna antica di Ovidio: l'Achilleide di Stazio," in Ovidius redivivus: von Ovid zu Dante, ed. Michelangelo Picone and Bernhard Zimmermann (Stuttgart: M und P, 1994), 43-62 |
| Spinelli, Tommaso, "The Argos Narrative in Statius' Thebaid: A New Ovidian Perseid?," The American Journal of Philology 140.2 (2019) 291-315 |
| Steiniger, J., "Ein Echo Ovids (Trist. 2,553) bei Statius (Theb. 1,34) und Silius Italicus (Pun. 12,46)," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 142.3/4 (1999): 422-23 • A.E. Housman's emendation scriptum ... cothurnis in sceptrum ... tyrannis (Ovid, Trist. 2.553) is supported by Theb. 1.34 (sceptrum ... tyrannis) and possibly Silius Italicus (sceptrum). |
| Thomas, E., "Some reminiscences of Ovid in Latin literature," in Atti del Convegno internazionale Ovidiano, Sulmona, maggio 1958 (Roma: Inst. di Studi Rom. Ed. 1959): 1.145-171 • Echoes of Ovid in Lucan, Martial, Juvenal, and Statius. |
| Van Dam, H.-J., "Notes on Statius Silvae 4," Mnemosyne 45 (1992): 190-224 • Analysis and interpretation 4.1.5-10, 4.1.44-46, 4.2.8-9, 4.2.20-25, 4.3.20-23, 4.3.86-89, 4.3.124-138, 4.3.155-159, 4.4.70-75, 4.4.78-85, 4.6.13-16, 4.6.56-58, 4.6.59-63, 4.8.36-41, and 4.8.45-54, emphasizing the influence of Ovid and Virgil. |
| Van Dam, H.-J., "Multiple Imitation of Epic Models in the Silvae," in R.R. Nauta, H.-J. van Dam, and J.J.L. Smolenaars, edd., Flavian Poetry, Mnemosyne suppl. 207 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 185-206 • Examples of the imitation of epic models in Silv. 1.4, 2.1, 3.1, and 3.4. "Virgil is the most privileged author in the Silvae. Long narrative mythological insets occur in several poems, embellished by speeches, where epic scenes from more than one author are imitated at the same time. Ovid's possible role in Statius' epic imitations is considered." |
| Pindar |
| Broscius (Brožek), M., "De Statio Pindarico," Eos 15 (1965 [1968]): 338-340 • Aspects of Pindar's influence on the Silvae. |
| Plato |
| Bessone, Federica, "Love and War: Feminine Models, Epic Roles, and Gender Identity in Statius's Thebaid," in Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison M. Keith, edd., Women and War in Antiquity (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), pp. 119-137 • On the characterization of Argia, comparing Theb. 4.200-210 and 12.134-136 and 177-186 with Plato (Smp. 179) and Ovid (Epist. 13.31-42). • Reviews: Weiberg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016 |
| Newlands, Carole E., "Sordida rura?: Pastoral Dynamics in the Sphragis to Statius' Silvae," TiC 4 (2012) 111-131 • Sordere at Silv. 3.5 is a new turn of the contrast between city and country in bucolic. Statius plays off Virgil, Propertius, and possibly Calpurnius Siculus to make Rome ugly and unsympathetic. Statius uses Ecl. 1.82-83 to bring Naples to the center of the bucolic world. |
| O'Sullivan, Timothy, "Aurati laquearia caeli: Roman Floor and Ceiling Decoration and the Philosophical Pose," in Kathleen M. Coleman, ed., Images for Classicists, Loeb Classical Monographs 15 (Cambridge, MA, 2015) • "The stupefying flattery of Statius (Silv. 4.2) makes Domitian's palatial dining room ceiling into an image of the vault of heaven. Heaven itself by now is alleged to have coffers,... Manilius (Astr. 1.532-6) [proves] it. Looking upwards, in the tradition of Thales and Socrates, might be dangerous, but it was the philosophical pose, the admired posture from Plato onwards. The wealthy homeowners who commissioned handsome floor mosaics and painted ceilings, O'Sullivan suggests, conceived them as facilitating philosophical thinking while they simultaneously served as symbols of moral decline. They succeeded in having and eating their cakes" (from Lateiner's review). • Review: Lateiner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.08.13 |
| Plutarch |
| Bevegni, Claudio, "Poliziano lettore dei Moralia di Plutarco: Alcuni dati di ordine statistico," Studi Umanistici Piceni 29 (2009) 205-219 • On Politian's knowledge of Plutarch in, among other works, his commentary on the Silvae. |
| Propertius |
| Burzacchini, G., "Corinna in Rome (Prop. II 3,21; Stat. Silv. V 3,158)," Eikasmos 3 (1992): 47-65 • On the meaning of tenuis at Silv. 5.3.158. |
| Haynes, Melissa, "Written in Stone: Literary Representations of the Statue in the Roman Empire," PhD Dissertation (Harvard University, 2009) • Summary in ProQuest dissertations database, ID 304891112; Discussion of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Favorinus' Corinthian oration, Propertius 4.2, Silv. 1.1 and 4.6, Petronius 126-132, and a fictional letter of Alciphron. |
| Newlands, Carole Elizabeth, "Sordida rura? Pastoral Dynamics in the Sphragis to Statius' Silvae," Trends in Classics 4.1 (2012) 111-31 • Forms of sordere in Silv. 3.5 (3.5.17 and 3.5.112) indicate a new direction in the contrast between city and land found in bucolic. The word implies moral and social concepts that Statius uses to reflect Virgil, Propertius, and perhaps Calpurnius Siculus to show Rome as ugly and unfriendly while Naples is the proper place for a husband and poet. Statius also modernized Virgilian bucolic and brings is back to Naples and puts the villa in the center. |
| Shackelton Bailey, D.R., "Echoes of Propertius," Mnemosyne 4a Ser. 5 (1952): 307-333 • List of imitations or reminiscences of Propertius in Statius and others. |
The Romance of Ninus and Semiramis |
| Gärtner, Thomas, "Der Ninos-Roman als Vorbild fur die Hochzeitshandlung im ersten Buch der Achilleis des Statius," Hermes 138.3 (2010): 296-307 • Thematic elements, the relationship between Achilles and Lycomedes, and linguistic similarities suggest that Statius was influenced by the story of Ninus and Semiramis, which is found in papyrus dating to the second half of the first century. |
| Seneca |
| Ahl, Frederick, "Transgressing Boundaries of the Unthinkable: Sophocles, Ovid, Vergil, Seneca and Homer Refracted in Statius' Thebaid," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 240-265 |
| Augoustakis, Antony, "Statius and Senecan Drama," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 377-392 • Comparison of the necromancy of Theb. 4 and the Oedipus and the cannibalism at the end of Theb. 8 and the Thyestes. |
| Bessone, Federica, "Teseo, la clementia e la punizione dei tiranni: Esemplarità e pessimismo nel finale della Tebaide," Dictynna: Revue de Poétique Latine 5 (2008): 3-56 • A reexamination of the end of the Thebaid shows Statius' opposition to tyranny. A comparison with Euripides' Supplicants and Seneca's Hercules furens shows the comparison of democracy and tyranny. |
| Bussi, Chiaffredo, "L'ira di Venere tra Stazio e Apuleio," Acme 60.2 (2007): 281-94 • The passages Theb. 5.57 ff. and Apul. Met. 4.29 ff. are influenced individually by Seneca's De ira. |
| Criado, Cecilia, "Teologías y teodiceas épicas: Estacio y la perspectiva ovidiana," Emerita 79.2 (2011): 251-75 • Jupiter in Statius is a mixture of Ovid's rector Olympi and Seneca's ciuitatis rector, making the figure theological and political. |
| Fantham, E., "Statius' Achilles and his Trojan Model," Classical Quarterly 29 (1979): 457-62 • Statius borrowed diction, traits of characterization and thematic events from Seneca's Troades. |
| Iglesias Montiel, Rosa María; Álvarez Morán, María Consuelo, "Ecos de Séneca trágico en la Tebaida de Estacio," in Miguel Rodríguez-Pantoja, ed., Séneca dos mil años después: Actas del congreso internacional conmemorativo del bimilenario de su nacimiento: (Córdoba, 24 a 27 de septiembre de 1996) (Córdoba: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Córdoba, 1997): 599-608 • Review: Blanco Pérez, Minerva 13 (1999): 380-83 |
| Kragelund, Patrick, "History, Sex and Scenography in the Octavia," Symbolae Osloenses, auspiciis Societatis Graeco-Latine 80 (2005): 68-114 • Examines the claim that the Octauia is dependent upon historians of the Flavian reign, but concludes that the case is unproven. Similarities with the love poetry of Statius are coincidental. |
| Sacerdoti, Arianna, "Seneca's Phaedra and the Last Book of Statius' Thebaid: Properate, Verendi Cecropidae," Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société Canadienne des études Classiques 62.3-4 (2008): 281-89 • "By recalling the beginning of Seneca's Phaedra at the end of his epic, Statius creates a strong link between the two texts, which also implies themes such as the importance of Athens and Theseus in Theb. 12; the problem of family conflicts in both the poets; and the status of epic genre." |
| Simms, Robert C., "Chronology and Canonicity in Jocasta's Intercessions in Statius' Thebaid," Illinois Classical Studies 39 (2014) 171-189 • Comparison with Jocasta's efforts to prevent the conflict between her sons in Statius with Stesichorus, Euripides, and Seneca. Statius's is unique, as Jocasta never stands between her sons. This modification of a traditional narrative creates uncertainty, adding to the suspense of the duel. |
| Venini, P., "Ancora sull'imitazione senecana e lucanea nella Tebaide di Stazio," Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 95 (1967): 418-427 • They determine some of the fundamental motifs of the Theb. and in Statius' view of myth. |
| Voigt, Astrid, "The Intertextual Matrix of Statius' Thebaid 11.315-23," Dictynna: Revue de Poétique Latine 12 (2015) • In Theb. 11.315-323, Statius uses several other passages (esp. Hom. Il. 22.437-476, Verg. Aen. 9.473-480, Theb. 4.562 and 569, Sen. Phoen. 363-367) to depict Jocasta as a pious, grieving, Theban, Roman, and epic mother. |
| Wasdin, Katherine, "The Reluctant Bride: Greek and Roman Wedding Poems," PhD Dissertation (Yale University, 2009) • Summary in ProQuest dissertations database, ID 305042031; Discussion of Sappho, tragic wedding songs and choral odes, Aristophanic wedding songs, Theocritus Id. 18, Catullus 61, 62 and 64, Seneca's Medea, and the wedding poems of Statius and of Claudian. |
| Sophocles |
| Ahl, Frederick, "Transgressing Boundaries of the Unthinkable: Sophocles, Ovid, Vergil, Seneca and Homer Refracted in Statius' Thebaid," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 240-265 |
| Newlands, Carole E., "Sordida rura?: Pastoral Dynamics in the Sphragis to Statius' Silvae," TiC 4 (2012) 111-131 • Sordere at Silv. 3.5 is a new turn of the contrast between city and country in bucolic. Statius plays off Virgil, Propertius, and possibly Calpurnius Siculus to make Rome ugly and unsympathetic. Statius uses Ecl. 1.82-83 to bring Naples to the center of the bucolic world. |
| Stesichorus |
| Simms, Robert C., "Chronology and Canonicity in Jocasta's Intercessions in Statius' Thebaid," Illinois Classical Studies 39 (2014) 171-189 • Comparison with Jocasta's efforts to prevent the conflict between her sons in Statius with Stesichorus, Euripides, and Seneca. Statius's is unique, as Jocasta never stands between her sons. This modification of a traditional narrative creates uncertainty, adding to the suspense of the duel. |
| Virgil |
| Arci, F., Gli amplessi di Virgilio con Sordello e Stazio (Alatri: de Andreis, 1900) |
| Ariemma, Enrico Maria, "Il malaugurio delle ninfe e la matrigna duplicata: Echi virgiliani (e ovidiani) in alcune Silvae di Stazio," Vichiana 5 (1994): 78-94 • On the lamentations of nymphs in Aen. 4.166-70; Ovid, Her. 7.95-98; and Silv. 3.1.73-75, 4.2.1-2, and 5.2.118-20. |
| Bonadeo, Alessia, "Torvus: Valenze poetiche e metapoetiche di un lessema in Stazio," Athenaeum 99.1 (2011): 81-101 • An analysis of related passages shows that Silv. 5.3.63 (toruo... Maroni) is an allusion to epic as opposed to occasional poetry. This is an example of Statius' emulative dynamic. |
| Brown, C.G., "Where Armies Clash: Statius, Thebaid 9.674," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 142 (1999): 321-6 •Read pectora. The line is derived not from Aen. 12.540-41 but from Aen. 10.354-61. |
| Carderi, Flavia, "L'inno a Minerva (Stat., Theb. 2.715-74): Ekphrasis del tempio e ekphrasis votiva," Paideia 65 (2010): 103-16 • The hymn is partly derived from epic tradition and partly from Virgil, G. 3.10-49 |
| Casali, Sergio, "Autoriflessività onirica nell'Eneide e nei successori epici di Virgilio," in Emma Jane Scioli and Christine Walde, edd., Sub imagine somni: Nighttime Phenomena in Greco-Roman Culture Testi e studi di cultura classica 46 (Pisa: ETS, 2010), 119-141 • Dreams in epic poetry, especially Enn. Fr. 29 Sk., Aen. 4.351-353, 6.893-899 and 10.636-642, Ovid, Met. 14.120-124, Valerius Flaccus 1.38-50, and Silv. 5.3. |
| Corradi, Maria Teresa, "Lo scudo in Grecia e a Roma: Il sema e la sua rappresentazione," RCCM 53.1 (2011): 87-97 • Different depictions of the shields of the Argive heroes reveal different aspects of the characters in Aeschylus, Euripides, and Statius. |
| Corti, R., "Le terga del cavallo. Nota a Stazio, Theb. 10.227-235 e Ovidio, Met. 12.399-402," Maia 38 (1986): 27-31 • Similarity with Georg. 3.72-80. |
| Criado Boado, C., "El proemio de la Tebaida estaciana. Una estructura no virgiliana", Florentia Iliberritana 9 (1998), 111-40 |
| Criado, Cecilia, "La praeteritio proemial de la Tebaida de Estacio: ¿Vocación cíclica o virgilianista?" Myrtia 14 (1999): 101-17 |
| Cristóbal López, Vicente, "Tempestades épicas," Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica 14 (1988) 125-148 • On the storms in the Aeneid, including models (Odyssey, Naevius' Bellum poenicum) and influence on later authors, including Ocid, Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Juvencus, Dracontius, and later Italian and Spanish authors. |
| Deipser, B., De P. Papinio Statio Vergilii et Ovidii imitatore Strassburg, Dissertationes Philologicae, 5 (1881) |
| Delz, J., "Nec tu divinam Aeneida tempta: Textkritisches zu Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus," Museum Helveticum 32 (1975): 155-72 • Certain passages are difficult to understand except when read through Virgil. |
| Dietrich, Jessica Shaw, "Rewriting Dido: Flavian responses to Aeneid 4," Prudentia 36.1 (2004): 1-30 • Comparison of Dido with Anna in Silius 8.1-201, Hypsipyle in Valerius Flaccus 2.349-356, and Argia in Theb. 12. |
| Feeney, Denis C., "Tenui... latens discrimine: Spotting the Differences in Statius' Achilleid," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 52 (2004) (Glenn W. Most and Sarah Spence, edd., Re-presenting Virgil: Special issue in honor of Michael C. J. Putnam): 85-106 • Statius simultaneously used Virgil and Ovid in the Achilleid. |
| Fernandelli, Marco, "Stat. Theb. 4.116-144 e l'imitatio Vergiliana," Sileno 22.1-2 (1996): 81-97 • The description of Hippomedon recalls Virgil's description of Turnus. A discussion of this illustrates Statius' compositional art. |
| Franchet d'Esperey, S., "Variations sur un thème animalier," Revue des études latines 55 (1977): 157-72 • Ascanius' killing of the deer, various themes, and ways the scene is re-used. |
| Frings, Irene, "Hypsipyle und Aeneas - Zur Vergilimitation in Thebais V," in Fernand Delarue, Sophia Georgacopoulou, Pierre Laurens, and Anne-Marie Taisne, edd., Epicedion: Hommage à P. Papinius Statius, 96-1996, Publications de la Licorne 38 (Poitiers: La Licorne, 1996): 145-60 |
| Fucecchi, Marco, "Ambitions de primauté et épopée inclusive: les poètes flaviens devant le couple Virgile-Ovide," in Séverine Clément-Tarantino and Florence Klein, edd., La représentation du couple Virgile-Ovide dans la tradition culturelle de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Cahiers de philologie 32: Série: Apparat critique (Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Pr. Universitaires du Septentrion, 2015), 41-56 • On the Virgil-Ovid couple in Theb. 12.810-815, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. |
| Ganiban, Randall, Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid (Cambridge, 2007) • Reviews: Heslin, Journal of Roman Studies 98 (2008): 243-45 Parkes, Classical Review 58.2 (2008): 485-86; Cowan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.06.31; Klodt, Gnomon 81.6 (2009): 505-14 |
| Gärtner, Th., "Der Text der Statianischen Epen im Spiegel antiker Vorbilder und Imitationen," Prometheus: Rivista Quadrimestrale di Studi Classici 27 (2001): 233-49 • Analysis of imitations to get the true reading of several verses. The text at Theb. 8.554-558 is improved on the basis of Aen. 2.339-346. |
| Gärtner, Thomas, "Thebanischer und römischer Bürgerkrieg: eine literarische Querbeziehung," Philologus 146.2 (2002): 375-79 • Theb. 4.397-404 and 12.442-446 are derived from Virgil, which provides some emendations. |
| Georgacopoulou, Sophia A., "Η επικη παραδοση και το ασμα του Απολλωνα στη Θηβαιδα του Στατιου: (Απολ. Ροδ. Αργον. 1,494-515 Βιργ. Αιν. 1,740-747 Στατ. Θηβ. 6,355-367)," Η μιμηση στη λατινικη λογοτεχνια: πρακτικα Ε' Πανελληνιου συμποσιου λατινικων σπουδων ('Αθηνα, 5-7 Νοεμβριου 1993) = Imitatio in litteris Latinis: acta quinti Symposii studiorum Latinorum totius Graeciae, ed. Dimitrios E. Koutroumpas (Athenis d. V-VII m. Novembris a. 1993) (Athina: Panepistimio Athinon, 1996), 345-63 • Ausonius' use of his sources, includine the Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and the Thebaid. |
| Georgacopoulou, Sophia A., "Jeu d'ironie tragique et jeu de voix à la fin du livre 2 de la Thébaïde de Stace," Échos du monde classique = Classical Views 40 (1996): 275-281 • An examination of Statius' strategies for expressing the tragic irony of Tydeus' mental blindness or caligo at the end of Book 2 of the Thebaid; and a consideration of the relationship between the same passage and certain passages in Iliad 10, Aeneid 11 and Thebaid 8. |
| Gervais, Kyle, "Odi(tque moras): Abridging Allusions to Vergil, Aeneid 12 in Statius, Thebaid 12," The American Journal of Philology 138 (2017): 305-29 • "Various allusions to Aeneid 12 in Thebaid 12 abridge the earlier narrative, cutting out difficult scenes so that Theseus and Creon's duel becomes a more straightforward battle between right and wrong than that of Aeneas and Turnus." |
| Gossage, A.J., "Statius and Vergil," Vergil Society Lecture Summaries 47 (1959): 1-8 • Statius' use of Virgil, especially the Thebaid. |
| Grotto, Francesco, "Egregivs formaqve animisqve : Un Marcello 'virgiliano' in Stazio, Silvae IV 4," Maia 70.2 (2018) 312-19 |
| Gruzelier, Claire E. "The Influence of Virgil's Dido on Statius' Portrayal of Hypsipyle," Prudentia 26.1 (V.J. Gray, ed., Nile, Ilissos and Tiber: Essays in honour of Walter Kirkpatrick Lacey) (1994): 153-65 |
| Hardie, Ph., "Flavian Epicists on Vergil's Epic Technique," Ramus 18 (1989): 3-20 • Valerius Flaccus' use of symmetry and repetition as a formal element; Statius' motif of the warrior who dies before maturity; Silius Italicus' use of mountains and rocks as symbols of destroyed and founded cities. |
| Harrison, Stephen J., "The colour of Olive Leaves: Vergil Aeneid 5.309," Ordia prima 2 (2003: 79-81 • On the reading flauaque and Servius' reading fuluaque, comparing Theb. 2.99 and Valerius Flaccus 3.436, glaucaque. |
| Heinen, Dustin, "Dominating Nature in Vergil's Georgics and Statius' Silvae," Diss. U Florida (2011) |
| Hibst, P., "Furor - ira - pietas: Untersuchungen zur Funktion des Gewaltmotivs in der Thebais des Statius unter Berücksichtigung von Vergils Aeneis," i. J. Styka, ed., Violence and Aggression in the Ancient World, Classica Cracoviensia 10 (Kraków: Ksiegarnia Akademicka, 2006): 51-72 |
| Hill, Donald E., "Statius' Debt to Virgil," Proceedings of the Virgil Society 26 (2008): 52-65 • There is remarkable structural symmetry between Aen. 1.1-304 and Theb. 1.1-311, but Statius alerts his readers also to a significant contrast between the two epics. Examination of other passages in the Thebaid (e.g., 1.336-341 and 1.390-400) shows Statius' pessimism. |
| Hoffmann, Manfred, "Statius, Thebais 5.593," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 144.1 (2001): 111-12 • Against the conjecture of A.J. Gossage , the phrase fulminis in morem recalls Aen. 11.616 and in funere primo recalls Lucan 2.21. |
| Iglesias Monteil, R.M. and M.C. Alvarez Moran, "El pasaje de Niso y Euríalo en Estacio," Simposio virgiliano conmemorativo del bimilenario de la muerte de Virgilio (Murcia: U. Murcia, 1984), 353-67 |
| Lesueur, Roger, "Sur la structure rythmique du récit de quelques épisodes de la Thébaïde de Stace et de l'Énéide," Revue des études latines 74 (1996): 231-46 • Virgil uses a tripartite structure, in which the final episode is usually successful. Statius does not use this structure. |
| Lesueur, Roger, "Diane et l'Arcadie dans la Thébaïde de Stace," Pallas 59 (2002): 303-13 • Like Virgil, Statius removes Diana's cold cruelty but makes her more sensitive to the brutality around her. This adds to the misanthropic nature of the Thebaid. |
| Liberman, G., "Textes à histoires: Virgile et Stace," MEFRA 106.2 (1994): 1137-49 |
| Liddell, Erik, "Statius' Silvae 4.4.49-55 and Vergil's Georgics 1.424-37: tenuis intertextual connections and the tradition of refined poetry," New England Classical Newsletter 30.3 (2003): 129-36 • Statius' reworking, at Silv. 4.4.49-55, of Geo. 1.424-437 demonstrates Statius' genius at using occasions as starting points for poetic creativity that ventured beyond the moment. |
| Marinčič, Marko, "Grška mitologija pri Staciju: Dante, Harold Bloom in meje politične psihologije [Greek Mythology in Statius: Dante, Harold Bloom, and the Limits of Political Psychology]," Keria: Studia Latina et Graeca 12 (2010) 189-215 with plate • Statius' supposed crypto-Christianity stems from Dante's psychological reading of the Thebaid, in which civil war results from a denial of faith. This stems in turn from a political-psychological reading of Flavian literature, in which repression (in Harold Bloom's concept of "anxiety of influence") prevents discussion of current events. The poem becomes a reaction to Virgil. |
| Marinčič, Marko, "L'angoscia dell'influenza, angoscia della morte: La morte di Achille tra Catullo, Virgilio e Stazio," Incontri di Filologia Classica 10 (2010-2011) 81-96 • Discussion of the depiction of Achilles in Catullus 64.323-380, Eclogues 4 and Georgics 4, and the Achilleid. Achilles is an ambiguous depiction of the Roman leader-statesman pretending to immortality. |
| McNelis, Charles, "Similes and Gender in the Achilleid, in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 189-204 • The first two similes of the poem (1.159-166 and 180-181) create an expectation of Achilles' gender in the rest of the poem. Includes a comparison with Callimachus (Lau.Pall. 17-32) and passages in Virgil. |
| Micozzi, Laura, "Alcuni nuovi contributi allo studio dell'imitazione virgiliana nella Tebaide," Orpheus 16.2 (1995): 417-33 • Rather than simply imitating Virgil, Statius inverts Virgilian scenes or otherwise draws a contrast. |
| Monno, Olga, "Tenuissima virtus di corridori, inseguitori e fuggiaschi in Virgilio e Stazio," InvLuc 32 (2010): 105-13 • Servius ad Aen. 9.556 suggests that Virgil is the source for Th. 6.568 and hence Turnus is a model for Parthenopeus in this scene. |
| Moul, Victoria A., "Quo rapis? Tone and Allusion at Aulis in Statius' Achilleid," Classical Quarterly N.S. 62.1 (2012) 286-300 • Ach. 1.397-559, the gathering of the troops at Aulis, mirrors the themes and structure of the work as a whole, especially in the epic blend of erotic or elegiac material. References to Aen. 2 invites us to read Statius' pre-Iliad as a post-Aeneid, in which Achilles' future glory and the fall of Troy are only a prelude to the reinvigoration of Trojan power in the form of Roman greatness. |
| Mozley, J.H., "Statius as an imitator of Vergil and Ovid," The Classical World 27 (1933): 33-38 • Statius has a tendency to paraphrase his models, to employ researched expessions and show details of learning, and finally to create a sentimental element. Includes a list of passages. |
| Mozley, J.H., "Virgil and the Silver Latin Epic," Proceedings of the Virgil Society 3 (1963-64): 12-26 |
| Nazzaro, Antonio, " Lo sbarco notturno dei Greci (Aen. 2.250-67) e l'ambigua immagine della tacita luna," in Antonio V. Nazzaro, ed., Prime giornate virgiliane (S. Giorgio del Sannio (Benevento): Liceo classico Virgilio, 2008): 72-107 • Discussion of reception of per amica silentia lunae (2.255) in Ovid (Met. 7.180-185), Theb. 2.58-59, and modern authors. |
| Newlands, Carole Elizabeth, "Sordida rura? Pastoral Dynamics in the Sphragis to Statius' Silvae," Trends in Classics 4.1 (2012) 111-31 • Forms of sordere in Silv. 3.5 (3.5.17 and 3.5.112) indicate a new direction in the contrast between city and land found in bucolic. The word implies moral and social concepts that Statius uses to reflect Virgil, Propertius, and perhaps Calpurnius Siculus to show Rome as ugly and unfriendly while Naples is the proper place for a husband and poet. Statius also modernized Virgilian bucolic and brings is back to Naples and puts the villa in the center. |
| Ottaviano, Silvia, "Nota a Aen. 3.360," Materiali e Discussioni per l'Analisi dei Testi Classici 62 (2009) 231-237 • Emendation of the passage on the basis of Theb. 2.529-530. |
| Pagán, Victoria E., "Georgics 2.497 and Thebaid 1.19-20: Allusion and Inspiration," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 362-376 |
| Parkes, R., "Hercules and the Centaurs: Reading Statius with Vergil and Ovid," Classical Philology 104.4 (2009): 476-94 • "On the relationship of the Thebaid to Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses in their treatment of Hercules and the Centauromachy. Not only does Statius draw on the comparative tactics employed by Vergil and Ovid in their inclusion of Hercules, he also systematically mines and combines relevant passages from them. In the process, he manipulates our reading of these texts." |
| Perret, J., "L'ordre de succession des vers dans Eneide 6.602-620)," Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 58 (1984): 19-33 • Reverse the order of 602-607 and 616-620 on the basis of reminiscences in Statius and others. |
| Perutelli, A., "Aequo discrimine (Verg. Aen. 5.154)," [in Italian] Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 8 (1982): 171-4 • On Theb. 6.605. |
| Pollmann, Karla F. L., "Statius' Thebaid and the Legacy of Vergil's Aeneid," Mnemosyne Ser. 4 54.1 (2001): 10-30 • Examines the similarities and differences between the two epics. An appendix provides a structural comparison of the Iliad, the Thebaid, and the Aeneid. |
| Putnam, Michael C.J., "The Sense of Two Endings: How Virgil and Statius Conclude," Illinois Classical Studies 41 (2016) 85-149 • A comparison of the end of the Aeneid and the Thebaid shows that Statius eliminates eroticism and emphasizes clementia, as private violence yields to universal mourning. |
| Ricchieri, Tommaso, "Funus Olynthi: Una presunta corruttela in Stazio, Theb. 12, 510 (con una nota virgiliana a Aen. 6, 621-622)," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 78 (2017) 183-94 |
| Río Torres-Murciano, Antonio, "Las secuelas del fortunati ambo (Verg., Aen. IX 446-449): epopeya e imperio," Emerita 77.2 (2009): 295-315 • The tension in Virgil's definition of epic and the problems it created for Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, and Statius. |
| Ripoll, François, "Variations épiques sur un motif d'ecphrasis: L'enlèvement de Ganymède," Revue des études anciennes 102.3-4 (2000): 479-500 • Valerius Flaccus, Statius, and Silius Italicus were all influenced by Virgil's description of Ganymede. In all four epics, Ganymede represents apotheosis. |
| Ripoll, François, "Adaptations latines d'un thème homérique: La théomachie," Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société Canadienne des études Classiques 60.3-4 (2006): 236-58 • The topos of the Theomachia (Il. 20-21) appears in four Latin epics. Petronius and Silius try to reproduce the Homeric schems. Virgil renews the topos into political allegory. Statius accentuates the anthropomorphism to enhance the hero Capaneus. |
| Ripoll, François, "Stace entre Virgile et Ovide dans l'Achilléide," in Séverine Clément-Tarantino and Florence Klein, edd., La représentation du couple Virgile-Ovide dans la tradition culturelle de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Cahiers de philologie 32: Série: Apparat critique (Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Pr. Universitaires du Septentrion, 2015), pp. 57-71 |
| Rosati, G., "Statius, Domitian and acknowledging paternity: Rituals of succession in the Thebaid," in J.J.L. Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam, Ruurd R. Nauta (edd.), The Poetry of Statius, Mnemosyne Suppl. 306 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 175-94 |
| Sacerdoti, Arianna, "L'orrore del ricordare, lo sguardo volto 'a retro': Indagini su Theb. 12.9-21," Paideia 60 (2005): 615-30 • Echoes of Aen. 2.12. |
| Sandbach, F.H., "Anti-Antiquarianism in the Aeneid," Proceedings of the Virgil Society 5 (1965-66): 26-38 • Study of deliberate anachronism. V. used anachronism to underline the continuity between the men about whom, and those for whom, he wrote. Comparisons with Valerius Flaccus and Statius. |
| Shumilin, Mikhail, "A Possible Corruption in Verg. Aen. 12.510," Museum Helveticum 75 (2018) 85-87 • The reading longe for longa is supported by an echo at Theb. 9.108. |
| Smolenaars, J.J.L., "De verschrikkingen van de oorlog. Statius' verwerking van Vergilius' Aeneis," [in Dutch; summary in English] Lampas 15 (1982): 28-42 • The influence of the Aeneid on the structure of Thebaid 7. |
| Smolenaars, J.J.L., "Ideology and Poetics along the Via Domitiana: Statius Silv. 4.3," in R.R. Nauta, H.-J. van Dam, and J.J.L. Smolenaars, edd., Flavian Poetry, Mnemosyne suppl. 207 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 223-44 • Although some have seen Silv 4.3 asanti-Domitianic, it is not. It combines themes of Domitianic propaganda with a description the construction of the road. "Emphasis is on the poem's encomium of Domitian's rule, phrased by the poet, the river-god Vulturnus, and the Cumaean Sibyl in a scene influenced by Virgil, Aen. 6 and Ecl. 4." |
| Soerink, Jörn, "Statius' Nemea: Paradise Lost," Dictynna: Revue de Poétique Latine 12 (2015) • The Nemean episode Theb. 4.646-7.104) is not a digression but rather presents epic and political themes. The battle between the Nemeans and the Argives recalls Caesar and Pompey (from Lucan). The serpent recalls Georg. 3.425-439. The passage results in the destruction of the pastoral world and the impossibility of the Golden Age, taken from Ecl. 4. |
| Spaltenstein, F., "Deux lectures antiques de Virgile (a propos des vers 1.42 and 8.731 de l'Eneide)," Études de lettres: Bulletin de la Faculté des Lettres de l'Univ. de Lausanne et de la Soc. des études de Lettres 2 (1991): 27-41 • Uses Statius as evidence to correct modern views. |
| Taisne, A.-M., "Presence de l'Eneide au chant I de la Thebaide: Tisiphone et Jupiter," Vox Latina 161 (2001): 38-46 • |
| Van Dam, H.-J., "Notes on Statius Silvae 4," Mnemosyne 45 (1992): 190-224 • Analysis and interpretation 4.1.5-10, 4.1.44-46, 4.2.8-9, 4.2.20-25, 4.3.20-23, 4.3.86-89, 4.3.124-138, 4.3.155-159, 4.4.70-75, 4.4.78-85, 4.6.13-16, 4.6.56-58, 4.6.59-63, 4.8.36-41, and 4.8.45-54, emphasizing the influence of Ovid and Virgil. |
| Van Dam, H.-J., "Multiple Imitation of Epic Models in the Silvae," in R.R. Nauta, H.-J. van Dam, and J.J.L. Smolenaars, edd., Flavian Poetry, Mnemosyne suppl. 207 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 185-206 • Examples of the imitation of epic models in Silv. 1.4, 2.1, 3.1, and 3.4. "Virgil is the most privileged author in the Silvae. Long narrative mythological insets occur in several poems, embellished by speeches, where epic scenes from more than one author are imitated at the same time. Ovid's possible role in Statius' epic imitations is considered." |
| Vélez Latorre, José Manuel, "'¿Vale todo en una guerra?': Subversión del código épico-heroico (y re-homerización) en el libro 10 de la Tebaida de Estacio," in Ianua classicorum: Temas y formas del mundo clásico : Actas del XIII Congreso Español de Estudios Clásicos, ed. Jesús de la Villa Polo, Patricia Cañizares Ferriz, and Emma Falque Rey, 3 vols. (Madrid: Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos, 2015), 2:547-553 • Book 10 of the Thebaid is modeled on Iliad 10 and Aeneid 9 but there are also interactions with Aeneid 2: "Faced with the teleological epic of the 'Aeneid' (the fall of Troy will lead to a more glorious destiny, determined by Jupiter and a positive fatum), in the fight for Thebes there are no winners: all are losers." |
| Ventura, Mariana S., "The Death of the Father: A Contribution to the Study of the Flavian Reception of Virgil (Stat. Silv. 5.3)," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 64 (2010): 201-16 • Aen. 6 as a model for Silv. 5.3. |
| Vidal, José Luis, "Nec tu diuinam Aeneida tempta: La sombra de la Eneida (y otras sombras) en la épica flavia," in José Francisco González Castro and Jesús de la Villa Polo, edd., Perfiles de Grecia y Roma: Actas del XII Congreso Español de Estudios Clásicos, Valencia, 22 al 26 de octubre de 2007, 2 (Madrid: Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos, 2010), pp. 747-787 • The influence of the Aeneid on Silius, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus. |
| Voigt, Astrid, "The Intertextual Matrix of Statius' Thebaid 11.315-23," Dictynna: Revue de Poétique Latine 12 (2015) • In Theb. 11.315-323, Statius uses several other passages (esp. Hom. Il. 22.437-476, Verg. Aen. 9.473-480, Theb. 4.562 and 569, Sen. Phoen. 363-367) to depict Jocasta as a pious, grieving, Theban, Roman, and epic mother. |
| Williams, G., "Statius and Vergil: Defensive Imitation," Vergil at 2000 (New York, 1996): 207-224 • Statius felt an anxiety toward Virgil. Essential problems about poetic imitation. |
| The Culex |
| Anderson, W.B., "Statius and the Date of the Culex," Classical Quarterly 10 (1916): 225-26 • Nothing in Statius' poem (2.7.54-74) justifies a correction to Donatus' statement that Virgil took six years to write the Culex. See J.S. Phillimore, "Statius and the Date of the 'Culex'," Classical Quarterly 11 (1917) 106. • Review: Schuster, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 212 (1927): 142 |
| Iodice, Maria Grazia, "Ancora sulla paternità del Culex nell'Appendix Vergiliana," PhilolAnt 6 (2013) 103-108 • Suggests that there actually was a Virgilian Culex in antiquity, but one that is different from the one that has come down to us. It may have been composed in Flavian or post-Neronian times, perhaps with some link to Statius. |
| Phillimore, J.S., "Statius and the Date of the 'Culex'," Classical Quarterly 11 (1917): 106 • Response to W.B. Anderson, "Statius and the date of the Culex," Classical Quarterly 10 (1916): 225-26. • Review: Schuster, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 212 (1927): 142 |
| Contemporary Authors |
| Calpurnius Siculus |
| Courtney, E., "Imitation, chronologie litteraire et Calpurnius Siculus," Revue des études latines 65 (1987): 148-57 • Traces of Statius in Calpurnius Siculus' works. |
| Danglard, J., Sur Stace et surtout de ses Silves (Clermont-Ferrand: Ferdinand Thibauer, 1864) • (I) On Statius' relationship with his conpemporaries and his reception and influence in the Middle Ages; (II) His life and family; (III) On the composition of the Silvae, including their influence on Politian; (IV) The end of Statius' life and his relationship with Domitian; (V)-(XIV) Discussion of individual Silvae in groups. |
| Newlands, Carole E., "Sordida rura?: Pastoral Dynamics in the Sphragis to Statius' Silvae," TiC 4 (2012) 111-131 • Sordere at Silv. 3.5 is a new turn of the contrast between city and country in bucolic. Statius plays off Virgil, Propertius, and possibly Calpurnius Siculus to make Rome ugly and unsympathetic. Statius uses Ecl. 1.82-83 to bring Naples to the center of the bucolic world. |
| Townend, G.B., "The Literary Substrata to Juvenal's Satires," Journal of Roman Studies 63 (1973): 148-160 • Juvenal makes frequent allusions to Martial, Statius and Calpurnius Siculus, especially in Sat. 1 and 7. Juvenal often satirizes, parodies, or undercuts the apparent sincerity of his own words. In Sat. 4, he experiments with a new type of satire, juxtaposing echoes from the critical record of Tacitus' Histories with those from the panegyric of Statius' De bello germanico. Juvenal's lack of success may be due to his belief that his readers would recognize a wide range of references. |
| Frontinus |
| Turner, Andrew, "Frontinus and Domitian: laus principis in the Strategemata," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 103 (2007): 423-49 • No conclusions can be drawn about Frontinus' true opinion of Domitian on the basis of the Strategemata alone. The laus of Domitian in Frontinus' Strategemata does not substantiate the claims of Pliny, Paneg. 54, 3-4 that under such tyrannous emperors sycophantic praise was all-pervasive in speeches made by senators. It also provides a strong contrast to the types of praise found in the works of contemporary professional poets, such as Statius' Silvae or Martial. |
| Turner, Andrew, "Frontinus and Domitian: laus principis in the Strategemata," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 103 (2007): 423-49 • No conclusions can be drawn about Frontinus' true opinion of Domitian on the basis of the Strategemata alone. The laus of Domitian in Frontinus' Strategemata does not substantiate the claims of Pliny, Paneg. 54, 3-4 that sycophantic praise was all-pervasive in speeches made by senators. It also provides a strong contrast to the types of praise found in the works of contemporary professional poets, such as Statius' Silvae or Martial. |
| Juvenal |
| Adamietz, Joachim, "Zur Frage der Parodie in Juvenals 4. Satire," Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft 19 (1993): 185-200 • Juvenal's statement is neither about Statius nor about his De bello germanico. The Satire serves a moral-satiric goal and, in its alternation between epic and satiric portions, makes Domitian its target. |
| Astbury, R., "Juvenal 10.148-50," Mnemosyne 28 (1975): 40-46 • Juvenal makes a subtle allusion to Theb. 10.84-6 and amuses himself by going beyond his model. |
| Baines, Victoria, "Umbricius' Bellum ciuile: Juvenal, Satire 3," Greece & Rome 50.2 (2003): 220-37 • Umbricius' description of an encounter at night between a poor man and a drunken thug (278-301) alludes to Theb. 2.489-95 as well as Vergil and Homer. The allusions illustrate how epic reinvents itself. |
| Baines, Victoria, "Bella satirica: Rhetorical Engagement with Epic in Juvenal's Satires," PhD dissertation, Nottingham, 2004 • Post-Virgilian epic, especially that of Ovid, Lucan, and Statius, is revealed to be as important a model for Juvenal as Homer and Virgil. |
| Beuchler, F. "Coniectanea," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 39 (1884): 283-5 nr.7 • The Bellum germanicum may have been in Juvenal's mind as he wrote Sat. 4. Valla might have gotten the Statius citation from Probus. |
| Bower, E.W., "Notes on Juvenal and Statius," Classical Review 8 (1958): 9-11 • Parallels between Sat. 4.127-8 and Theb. 1.138. |
| Colton, R.E., "Juvenal on Recitations," The Classical Bulletin 42 (1966): 81-5 • An examination of Sat. 1.1-21, an attack on the epic poetry of the day, typified by VF. In Sat. 1 and 3, Juvenal seems to hate recitations; in Sat. 7, he is the compassionate satirist, lamenting the miseries of reciting poets. |
| Ercole, P., "Stazio e Giovenale," Rivista Indo-Greca-Italica di Filologia, Lingua, Antichità 15 (1931) 43-58 • In Sat. 4, Juvenal amuses himself by ridiculing the plans of Domitian that S. treated with great seriousness. This railing treatment returns in Sat. 7.82-7. • Review: Hosius, Philologische Wochenschrift (1932): 717. |
| Fear, Trevor, "The Poet as Pimp: Elegiac Seduction in the Time of Augustus," Arethusa 33.2 (2000): 217-40 • Discussion of the metaphor of poet as pimp and poem as prostitute, including a discussion of Juvenal's reference to the Thebaid. |
| Gelsomino, Remo, "La Violentilla di Stazio (1.2) ed una signora della sesta satira di Giovenale (474-507)," Studi di Poesia latina in onore di Antonio Traglia: Stori e lett. Recc. Di studi e testi 141 & 142 (1979): 841-70 |
| Henriksén, Ch., "Martial und Statius," in F. Grewing, ed., Toto notus in orbe. Perspektiven der Martial-Interpretation, Palingenesia 65 (Stuttgart, 1998): 77-118 |
| Huevel, H., "De inimicitiarum quae inter Martialem et Statium fuisse dicuntur indiciis," Mnemosyne 4 (1937): 299-330 • Our evidence for their relationship. |
| Kershaw, A., "Martial 9.44 and Statius," Classical Philology 92 (1997): 269-272 |
| Laguna Mariscal, Gabriel, "El otro griego en la Roma flavia: Estacio y Juvenal," in A. Cruz Casado and M. Raders, edd. Estudios de Literatura General y Comparada. Literatura y alianza de civilizaciones. Prólogo y paratexto. Bohemios, raros y olvidados (Lucena (Córdoba): Ayuntamiento de Lucena, 2009): 45-62 |
| Lochmann, Johann Melchior, Professoris Eloquentiae Et Graecae Linguae Munus In Illustri Gymnasio Coburgensi Academico Auspicaturus Pauca Ad Defendendum Et Emendandum P. Papin. Statium Praefatur (Coburg, 1774) • A defense of Statius against deprecators from Joseph Scaliger to Barth. A discussion of Juvenal 7.82-87 and Statius' success. A defense of his encomia and of his style. A lengthy discussion of Silv. 3.2.20 ("exploret rupes gravis ante molybdis"). |
| Martin, D., "Similarities Between the Silvae of Statius and the Epigrams of Martial," Classical Journal 34 (1939): 461-70 • Mostly, similarity of subjects, and by the picture of social life under the Flavians. |
| Nauta, R. R. Poetry for Patrons: Literary Communication in the Age of Domitian (Leiden, 2002) • Reviews: Gibson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.11.22;; Rees, Journal of Roman Studies 93 (2003): 388-89; Cova, Athenaeum 92.1 (2004): 329-31; Koster, Gnomon 76.5 (2004): 404-408; Jones, Latomus 63.2 (2004): 471-73; Lorenz, Plekos 5 (2003): 71-81; Coleman, Mnemosyne Ser. 4 60.2 (2007): 321-26 |
| Orentzel, A.E., "Juvenal and Statius," The Classical Bulletin 52 (1976): 61-2 • Juvenal pictures S. in 7.79-87 as selling his poetry to an actor to fend off poverty. Juvenal's envy led him to belittle his rival. |
| Ripoll, F., "Martial et Stace: Un bilan de la question," Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé 2002.3 (2002): 303-23 |
| Salanitro, M., "L'augurio di una lapide al viator (Mart. VI 28)," Atene e Roma: Rassegna trimestrale dell'Associazione Italiana di Cultura classica 41 (1996): 9-15 • Notes on a possible rivalry between Martial and Statius on the basis of Silv. 2.1 and Martial 6.28 and 6.28. |
| Tandoi, V., "Giovenale il mecanatismo a Roma fra 1 e 2 secolo," Atene e Roma: Rassegna trimestrale dell'Associazione Italiana di Cultura classica 13 (1968): 125-145 • Juvenal (7.1-97) makes S. the symbol of a culture tied to bad taste of the public and to the directives of ignoble courtesans. |
| Tandoi, V., "Il ricordo di Stazio dolce poetanella Sat. 7 di Giovenale," in Ommagio a Eduard Fraenkel (Rome 1968): 248-70 • The culture of Trajan's time is hostile to S. Juvenal 7.82-87 is a sarcastic double-entendre. |
| Tandoi, V., "Il ricordo di Stazio 'dolce poeta' nella Sat. 7 di Giovenale," Maia 21 (1969): 103-122 • Juvenal's statement is ironic. |
| Tandoi, V., "Per la comprensione del De bello Germanico staziano muovendo dalla parodia di Giovenale," in M.G. Bianco and V. Tandoi, eds., Disiecti membra poetae, 3 vols. (Foggia, 1984-88), 2:223-234 |
| Thomson, J.O., "Juvenal's big-fish satire," Greece & Rome 21 (1952): 86-7 • In Sat. 4, there are echoes of Horace, Statius and Lucan. |
| Townend, G.B., "The Literary Substrata to Juvenal's Satires," Journal of Roman Studies 63 (1973): 148-160 • Juvenal makes frequent allusions to Martial, Statius and Calpurnius Siculus, especially in Sat. 1 and 7. Juvenal often satirizes, parodies, or undercuts the apparent sincerity of his own words. In Sat. 4, he experiments with a new type of satire, juxtaposing echoes from the critical record of Tacitus' Histories with those from the panegyric of Statius' De bello germanico. Juvenal's lack of success may be due to his belief that his readers would recognize a wide range of references. |
| White, P., "The presentation and dedication of the Silvae and the Epigrams," Journal of Roman Studies 64 (1974): 40-61 • Martial wishes to honor the dedicated; S. aims at garnering patronage. |
| Martial |
| Alonso, D., "Antecedentes griegos y latinos de la poesia correlativa moderna," in Estudios dedicatos a R. Menéndez Pidal, IV (Madrid, 1950): 3-25 • Diverse examples from Alexandrians, the Greek Anthology, S., Martial, and Claudian, show that poetic correlations, which were then popular in European poetry, were used in Greek poetry down to the second century BC and in Latin down to the first century AD. |
| Aricò, Giuseppe, "Leves libelli: Su alcuni aspetti della poetica dei generi minori da Stazio a Plinio il Giovane," CentoPagine 2 (2008): 1-11 • On new perspectives on the relationship between epic and non-epic poetry in the post-Augustan period, with focus on Statius, Martial, and Pliny the Younger. |
| Billanovich, G., "Veterum vestigia vatum nei carmi dei preumanisti padovani," Italia medioevale e umanistica 1 (1958): 155-243 • Reminisciences of Lucretius, Catullus, Martial, and S.'s Silvae. |
| Cabrillana Leal, Concepción, "El contenido como elemento definidor independiente: Algunas composiciones de Estacio y Marcial," Cuadernos de filología clásica, Estudios latinos 8 (1995): 157-70 • Despite their stylistic differences, Martial and the Silvae are analogous. This suggests that the genre of the two works is dependent upon content, not necessarily form. |
| Camera, Elisa, "Marziale e Stazio tra inimicizia ed emulazione," in Ferruccio Bertini, ed., FuturAntico 4 (Genova: D.AR.FI.CL.ET. Francesco Della Corte, 2007): 155-90 • Comparison of the two authors, in particular their ways of flattering the emperor and indications of their rivalry. |
| Canobbio, Alberto, "Generi grandi e generi piccoli in Marziale e in Stazio," BStudLat 44 (2014) 442-470 • In contrast with Martial, who keeps different poetic genres separate, Statius freely combines and contaminates different poetical forms. |
| Charlesworth, Martin Percival, "Emperor-Worship in Martial and Statius" [review of Sauter, F., Der römische Kaiserkult bei Martial und Statius, 1934], Classical Review 49 (1935): 139-40 |
| Coffee, N., "Statius' Theseus: Martial or Merciful?" Classical Philology 104.2 (2009): 221-28 • "In Theb. 12, Theseus is identified with Mars and contrasted with the Altar to a greater extent than has yet been recognized. Through the figure of Theseus, Statius expresses significant reservations about the use of kingly power even in the service of a virtuous cause." |
| Coleman, K.M., "Silvae 4.9, a Statian Name Game," The Proeeedings of the African Classical Associations 14 (1978): 9-10 • Plotius Grypus is "hook-nosed." Used "nasutus" of Martial and Phaedrus to joke at literary critics. |
| Colton, R.E., "Echoes of Catullus and Martial in Statius, Silvae 4.9," L'Antiquité classique 46 (1977): 544-556 |
| de Visscher, F., "Héraklès Epitrapezios," L'Antiquité Classique 30 (1961): 67-129 • On a marble Hercules, found in Alba Fucens in 1960. This provdes evidence for the descriptions of Martial 9.44.45 and Silv. 4.6. Discussion of iconographic tradition of Lysippus. |
| Döpp, S., "Cyllarus und andere Rosse in römischem Herrscherlob," Hermes 124 (1996): 321-332. • An investigation of Silv. 1.1.53-55, Martial 8.21.5-8, Claudian 8.554-564, Paneg. 6 [7].8.5 and Ausonius 20.18.5 demonstrates that horse itself exemplifies the divinity of the emperor. |
| Elm, Dorothee, "Die Entgrenzung des Alter(n)s: Zur Kaiserpanegyrik in der Dichtung des Statius und Martial," pp. 237-60 of Thorsten Fitzon, Sandra Linden, Kathrin Liess, and Dorothee Elm, edd., Alterszäsuren: Zeit und Lebensalter in Literatur, Theologie und Geschichte (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012): 237-60. • Statius and Martial (Liber Spectaculorum) portray Domitian as eternally young and compare this with mythical and historical parallels. Discussion of Domitian's death as a watershed in Martial's works. •Reviews: Wagner-Hasel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.11.42; Brandt, Sehepunkte 12.4 (2012) |
| Elm, Dorothee, "Die Entgrenzung des Alter(n)s: zur Kaiserpanegyrik in der Dichtung des Statius und Martial," pp. 237-60 of Thorsten Fitzon, Sandra Linden, Kathrin Liess, and Dorothee Elm, edd., Alterszäsuren: Zeit und Lebensalter in Literatur, Theologie und Geschichte (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012): 237-60. • Statius and Martial (Liber Spectaculorum) portray Domitian as eternally young and compare this with mythical and historical parallels. Discussion of Domitian's death as a watershed in Martial's works. •Reviews: Wagner-Hasel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.11.42; Brandt, Sehepunkte 12.4 (2012) |
| Erkell, H., "Statius' Silvae 4.1 und das Templum gentis Flaviae," Eranos 56 (1958): 173-82 • The longaevus parens is Vespasian and the ara parentis the templum Flaviae. Also mentioned in Martial, Book 9. See J.H. Bishop, "The Ghost of a longaevus parens," Classical Review 10 (1968) 8. |
| Fabbrini, Delphina, "Callimaco, SH 260A, 8 e le sorti di Molorco in Marziale, IV 64 e Stazio, Silvae III 1: il tema dell'ospitalità umile nella poesia celebrativa e d'occasione di età flavia," Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica 4th ser., 3.2 (2005): 195-222 • Examples of the Flavian desire to out-exemplify the virtues of simplicity and poverty. In Statius, the mention of the pauperis arua Molorchi is an anti-exemplum of humble hospitality, showing dominion over nature. |
| Friedländer, L., De temporibus librorum Martialis Domitiano imperante editorum et Silvarum Statii. Programm der Akademie zu Regmont (Regmont, 1862) |
| Friedländer, L., "Recensio poetarum Statio Martiali Plinio iuniori contemporaneorum," Index lectionum hibernarum Monasteriensium 1870/71 (Münster, 1870): 4-5 |
| Friedländer, L., "Die Gönner und Freunde des Martial und Statius," Darstellung aus der Sittengeschichte Roms, III (Münster, 1871): 396-411 |
| Garthwaite, John, Domitian and the Court Poets Martial and Statius, Dissertation, Cornell Univ., 1978 • Summary in Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1979): 4224A |
| Hanslik, R., "Die neuen Fastenfragmente von Ostia in ihrer Beziehung zu gleichzeitigam epigraphischen und literarischem Material," Wiener Studien 58 (1948): 117-135 • The problems posed by Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 16.38 and 39 can be resolved, thanks to new discoveries. Explanation of passages in Martial, S., Pliny the Younger. |
| Henriksén, C., "Earinus: An Imperial Eunuch in the Light of the Poems of Martial and Statius," Mnemosyne ser. 4, 50 (1997): 281-294 • A reconstruction of Earinus' life on the basis of Martial 9.9, 11-13 and 16-17 and Silv. 3.4. |
| Henriksén, Ch., "Martial und Statius," in F. Grewing, ed., Toto notus in orbe. Perspektiven der Martial-Interpretation, Palingenesia 65 (Stuttgart, 1998): 77-118 |
| Hinds, S., "Do-It-Yourself Literary Tradition: Statius, Martial and Others," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 39 (1997): 187-207 |
| Huevel, H., "De inimicitiarum quae inter Martialem et Statium fuisse dicuntur indiciis," Mnemosyne 4 (1937): 299-330 • Our evidence for their relationship. |
| Johannsen, N., Dichter über ihre Gedichte: Die Prosavorreden in den "Epigrammaton libri" Martials und in den "Silvae" Statius, Hypomnemata 166 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006) • Reviews: Grewing, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.7.10; Berlincourt, Museum Helveticum 64.4 (2007): 246; Lorenz, Classical Review n.s. 58.1 (2008): 157-58; Merli, Gnomon 80.4 (2008): 358-59 |
| Kershaw, A., "Martial 9.44 and Statius," Classical Philology 92 (1997): 269-272 |
| Killeen, J.F., "What was the linea dives (Martial 8.78.7)?" The American Journal of Philology 80 (1959): 185-88 • A Pompeian painting, called enigmatic by some, depicts distribution of fruits, meats, and birds, reflecting a passage in Martial and Silvae 1.6.9. |
| La Penna, Antonio, "Immortale Falernum: Il vino di Marziale e dei poeti latini del suo tempo," Maia 51.2 (1999): 163-81 • Discussions of the origin and price os wines in Martial, contrasted with wine in the Silvae and Silius Italicus. |
| Lorenz, Sven, "Martial, Herkules und Domitian: Büsten, Statuetten und Statuen im Epigrammaton liber nonus," Mnemosyne Ser. 4 56.5 (2003): 566-84 • Martial 9.43 and 44 on a statuette of Hercules owned by the patron Novius Vindex (also mentioned in Statius Silv. 4.6) tell us something about Martial's relationship with Statius and about patronage in the age of Domitian. Martial shows how even the lowest genre of poetry can serve as panegyric literature for the sublime emperor Domitian. |
| Lorenz, Sven, "Prose Prefaces," rev. of N. Johannsen, Dichter über ihre Gedichte. Die Prosavorreden in den Epigrammaton libri Martials und in den Silvae des Statius, Hypomnemata 166 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2006), Classical Review 58.1 (2008): 157-58 |
| Lugli, G., "La Roma di Domiziano nei versi di Marziane e di Stazio," StudRom 9 (1961): 1-17. • Martial describes activity to repair after the fire of 64, both imperially and in the popular quarters. Statius described the buildings and objects of art. |
| Martin, D., "Similarities Between the Silvae of Statius and the Epigrams of Martial," Classical Journal 34 (1939): 461-70 • Mostly, similarity of subjects, and by the picture of social life under the Flavians. |
| Maugan-Chemin, Valérie, "Les couleurs du arbre chez Pline l'Ancien, Martial et Stace," in A. Rouveret, S. Dubel, and V. Naas, edd., Couleurs et Matières dans l' Antiquité: Textes, techniques et pratiques, Études de Littérature Ancienne 17 (Paris: éditions Rue d' Ulm/Presses de l' école normale supérieure, 2006): 103-26 • Reviews: Boulogne, Les Études Classiques 74.2 (2006): 180-81; Monaco. ASAA ser. 3 5.2 (2005): 521-24; Bradley, Classical Review n.s. 57.2 (2007): 548-50; Sandoz, Museum Helveticum 64.4 (2007): 264-65; Brunet, Dialogues d'histoire ancienne 34.1 (2008): 196-99; Bouffier, Revue des études anciennes 110.1 (2008): 261-62 |
| McKeown, Niall, "Had They No Shame? Martial, Statius and Roman Sexual Attitudes Towards Slave Children," in Sally Crawford and Gillian Shepherd, edd., Children, Childhood and Society, IAA Interdisciplinary Series, Studies in Archaeology, History, Literature and Art 1, University of Birmingham BAR International Series 1696 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007): 57-62 |
| McNelis, C., "Ut Sculptura Poesis: Statius, Martial, and the Hercules Epitrapezios of Novius Vindex," The American Journal of Philology 129.2 (2008): 255-276 |
| Merli, Elena, "Ordinamento degli epigrammi e strategie cortigiane negli esordi dei libri I-XII di Marziale," Maia: Rivista di Letterature Classiche 45 (1993) 229-256 • The structure of Martial's poems, especially those with proems. Comparison with the prefaces of Silvae 1-4. |
| Newlands, Carole Elizabeth, "Martial, Epigrams 9.61 and Statius, Silvae 2.3: Branches from the Same Tree?" Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity N.S. 20 (2011) 92-111 • "Martial 9.61 and Statius, Silv. 2.3 provide a test case for the interaction between Martial and Statius. While both poems draw on literary topoi about trees from Horace through Ovid and Lucan, they interact with one another in word and theme. This intersubjective form of literary engagement involves both opposition and complementarity ; read as a diptych, these poems reveal the literary and political potential of the occasional genre" (from LAPH). |
| Newlands, C.E., "Martial, Epigrams 96.61 and Statius, Silvae 2.3: Branches from the Same Tree?" Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity 20 (2011): 93-111 • "Argive innocence is opposed in several ways to Theban guilt in Statius's Thebaid. Construction and deconstruction of these oppositions reveal disjunction between the initial narrative portrayal of a virtuous Argos dragged into war by an unjust Jupiter and the counter story of past Argive sin. Cracks in Ornytus's rhetorical attempt to condemn Creon's behavior at 12.155-157 demonstrate the difficulty of assigning simple moral judgments within the poem's complexities." |
| Newmyer, S., "The Triumph of Art Over Nature: Martial and Statius on Flavian Aesthetics," Helios 11.1 (1984): 1-7 • When Martial and Statius praise physical size and the triumph of art over nature, they are transferring to aesthetics categories borrowed from the imperial cult. |
| Österberg, P.I., De structura verborum cum praepositionibus compositorum quae exstant apud C. Valerium Flaccum, P. Papinium Statium, M. Valerium Martialem, commentatio academica (diss. Uppsala) (Stockholm, 1883) • Link |
| Ouvry, J., "Une réplique de l'Héraclès Epitrapezios retrouvée," Antike Kunst 32 (1989): 152-4 • Reproduction of the Lysippus, as attributed by Martial and Statius. |
| Pernier, L., "Copie italiche dell'Herakles Epitrapezios di Lisippo," Archaiologike Ephemeris (1937): 33-9 • Another statuette, of Sinalonga, from the first century AD by an Etruso-Italian artist. Cf. Martial and Statius for the original, in possession of Nonius Vindex (Mart. 9.43.44, S. 4.6). |
| Riegler, F., Historische Ereignisse und Personen bei Martial und Statius, Dissertation, Wein, 1967 |
| Ripoll, F., "Martial et Stace: Un bilan de la question," Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé 2002.3 (2002): 303-23 |
| Roman, Luke, "Statius and Martial: Post-Vatic Self-Fashioning in Flavian Rome," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 444-461 • On the construction of the poetic persona in Statius and Martial. |
| Römer, Franz, "Mode und Methode in der Deutung panegyrischer Dichtung der nachaugusteischen Zeit," Hermes: Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie 122 (1994) 95-113 • Based on Martial and Statius, it is difficult to tell whether each individual praise of the emperor is meant seriously or with irony. |
| Rosati, Gianpiero, "Amare il tiranno: Creazione del consenso e linguaggio encomiastico nella cultura flavia," pp. 265-80 of Gianpaolo Urso, ed., Dicere laudes: Elogio, comunicazione, creazione del consenso: Atti del convegno internazionale, Cividale del Friuli, 23-25 settembre 2010, I convegni della Fondazione Niccolò Canussio 10 (Pisa: ETS, 2011) • A reconsideration of Statius' and Martial's relationship with the political powers. The two saw themselves as official interpreters of current trends and provided the people with an idealized view of the emperor. • Review: Sannicandro Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.08.11 |
| Salanitro, M., "L'augurio di una lapide al viator (Mart. VI 28)," Atene e Roma: Rassegna trimestrale dell'Associazione Italiana di Cultura classica 41 (1996): 9-15 • Notes on a possible rivalry between Martial and Statius on the basis of Silv. 2.1 and Martial 6.28 and 6.28. |
| Sauter, F., Der römische Kaiserkult bei Martial und Statius, Tübinger Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 21 (Dissertation, Uni-Tübingen, 1932) (Stuttgart, 1934) • Reviews: Helm, Philologische Wochenschrift (1934): 1418-20; Charlesworth, Classical Review 49 (1935): 139-40; H.J. Rose, Gnomon 11 (1935): 51-53; Mattingly, Antiquity 10 (1936): 122; Taylor, The American Journal of Philology (1937): 126 |
| Schilp, J., Die politischen Ideen der domitianischen Zeit gesehen aus den Werken der zeitgenössischen Dichter Martial, Statius, Silius Italicus, Dissertation, Uni-Marburg, 1947 |
| Schlingmeyer, Katja, "Gelegenheitsdichtung als Medium am Beispiel der römischen Dichter Statius und Martial," diss. Bielefeld, 2006 |
| Seo, J. Mira, "Statius Silvae 4.9 and the Poetics of Saturnalian Exchange," in R. Ferri, J.M. Seo and K. Volk, edd., Callida Musa: Papers on Latin Literature in Honor of R. Elaine Fantham, Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 61 (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2009): 243-56 • Review: Kershner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.08.46 On Statius' use Catullus 14 and Martial 4.88. |
| Seo, J. Mira, "Statius Silvae 4.9 and the Poetics of Saturnalian Exchange," in R. Ferri, J.M. Seo and K. Volk, edd., Callida Musa: Papers on Latin Literature in Honor of R. Elaine Fantham, Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 61 (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2009): 243-56 • Review: Kershner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.08.46 On Statius' use Catullus 14 and Martial 4.88. |
| Smyth, W.R., "Statius, Silvae 1.6.73-74 and Martial 1.41.3-5," Classical Review (1947): 46-7 • On the type of commerce in these two passages. |
| Stein-Hölkeskamp, Elke, "Culinarische Codes: Das ideale Bankett bei Plinius d. Jüngeren und seinen Zeitgenossen," Klio 84 (2002): 465-90 • A comparative analysis of passages from the younger Pliny, Statius, Martial, and Juvenal reveals that they all advocate abstention from culinary extravagance, favour fairly highbrow entertainment and disapprove of a kind of hospitality that is graded according to the rank and status of the guests, and they all wish the ideal banquet to be a social occasion that is to be kept free of politics. |
| Szelest, H., "Soteria Rutulii Gallici (Stat. Silv. 1.4)," Helikon 11-12 (1971-72): 433-443 • Poems composed for this occasion are very rare in antiquity. Compared with some Greek epigrams, Horace (C. 1.20, 2.13, 2.17, 3.18) and Martial (7.47, 11.36). |
| Thomas, E., "Some reminiscences of Ovid in Latin literature," in Atti del Convegno internazionale Ovidiano, Sulmona, maggio 1958 (Roma: Inst. di Studi Rom. Ed. 1959): 1.145-171 • Echoes of Ovid in Lucan, Martial, Juvenal, and Statius. |
| Townend, G.B., "The Literary Substrata to Juvenal's Satires," Journal of Roman Studies 63 (1973): 148-160 • Juvenal makes frequent allusions to Martial, Statius and Calpurnius Siculus, especially in Sat. 1 and 7. Juvenal often satirizes, parodies, or undercuts the apparent sincerity of his own words. In Sat. 4, he experiments with a new type of satire, juxtaposing echoes from the critical record of Tacitus' Histories with those from the panegyric of Statius' De bello germanico. Juvenal's lack of success may be due to his belief that his readers would recognize a wide range of references. |
| Vout, C., "Objects of desire: Eroticised political discourse in Imperial Rome," diss. Cambridge 2000 • Martial and Statius (Silvae 3.4) articulate their relationship with their patron Domitian, their feelings for Roman society, and their literary relationship to one another, by writing about Domitian's relationship with a eunuch, Earinus. |
| Watson, Patricia A., "Martial on the Wedding of Stella and Violentilla," Latomus 58.2 (1999): 348-56 • A comparison of Martial 6.21.10 and Silv. 1.2 shows a slight lack of respect for Stella on the part of Martial, and that Martial plays more on Stella's poetry. |
| Watson, Patricia A., "Martial on the Wedding of Stella and Violentilla," Latomus 58.2 (1999): 348-56 • A comparison of Martial 6.21.10 and Silv. 1.2 shows a slight lack of respect for Stella on the part of Martial, and that Martial plays more on Stella's poetry. |
| Watt, W.S., "Notes on Latin poetry: Ovid, Lucan, Silius Italicus, Statius, Martial, Rutilius, and Fragmentary Latin poets," Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London 42 (1997-1998): 145-58 |
| White, P., Aspects of Non-Imperial Patronage in the Works of Martial and Statius, Diss. Harvard U., 1972. Summary in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 77 (1973): 258-60 |
| White, P., "Vivius Maximus, the Friend of Statius," Historia 22 (1973): 295-301 • The Vivii Maximi of Silv. 4.7, Martial 11.7, and Pliny the Younger Ep.3.2 are different people. |
| White, P., "The presentation and dedication of the Silvae and the Epigrams," Journal of Roman Studies 64 (1974): 40-61 • Martial wishes to honor the dedicated; S. aims at garnering patronage. |
| White, P., "The Friends of Martial, Statius, and Pliny and the Dispersal of Patronage," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 79 (1975): 265-300 • Members of their groups rarely overlapped. At this time, there were no single patron-groups as there were under Augustus. |
Petronius |
| Flobert, P., "De Stace à Pétrone," in J. Champeaux and M. Chassignet, edd., Aere Perennius. En hommage à Hubert Zehnacker (Paris: Presses de l' Université Paris - Sorbonne, 2006): 433-38 |
| Gärtner, Thomas, "Eine übersehene Parallele zwischen Petron und Statius und die Datierung des Satyricon," Classica et mediaevalia 60 (2009) 305-309 |
| Haynes, Melissa, "Written in Stone: Literary Representations of the Statue in the Roman Empire," PhD Dissertation (Harvard University, 2009) • Summary in ProQuest dissertations database, ID 304891112; Discussion of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Favorinus' Corinthian oration, Propertius 4.2, Silv. 1.1 and 4.6, Petronius 126-132, and a fictional letter of Alciphron. |
| Kronenberg, Leah J., "A Petronian Parrot in a Neronian Cage: A New Reading of Statius' Silvae 2.4," Classical Quarterly N.S. 67 (2017) 558-572 • "Many read Silv. 2.4, a poem about a dead parrot dedicated to Atedius Melior, as picking up on the metapoetic strand in his Ovidian model (Am. 2, 6), in which the parrot may be interpreted as a poet figure. Oddities about the dead parrot and its relationship to its dominus have not been explained. This article argues that the parrot stands in for a specific dead poet/writer, namely Petronius, and that the dominus of the poem is Nero. The dominus is mentioned in the first line but is never addressed and there is no indication of a close relationship with Statius. The name Melior is withheld until line 32, and by this time Statius has provided his readers with the tools necessary to decode this complex poem. |
| Pliny the Younger |
| Aricò, Giuseppe, "Plinio il Giovane e la poesia," in Storia letteratura e arte a Roma nel secondo secolo dopo Cristo: Atti del convegno, Mantova 8-9-10 ottobre 1992, Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze e Arti. Miscellanea 3 (Firenze: Olschki, 1995): 27-41 • Pliny's Letters, in particular 5.3.1, create a correspondence with Silv. 4 praef. This indicates that the publication of Silv. 4 preceded Pliny's Letters. • Reviews: Fedeli, Aufidus 10.28 (1996): 147; Marconi, RCCM 38.1 (1996): 178-80; Ficca, BStudLat 26.2 (1996): 639-41; Malissard, Latomus 57.3 (1998): 748 |
| Haynes, Melissa, "Written in Stone: Literary Representations of the Statue in the Roman Empire," PhD Dissertation (Harvard University, 2009) • Summary in ProQuest dissertations database, ID 304891112; Discussion of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Favorinus' Corinthian oration, Propertius 4.2, Silv. 1.1 and 4.6, Petronius 126-132, and a fictional letter of Alciphron. |
| Hindermann, Judith, "Similis excluso a vacuo limine recedo: Plinius' Inszenierung seiner Ehe als elegisches Liebesverhältnis," in Marco Formisano and Therese Fuhrer, edd., Gender Studies in den Altertumswissenschaften: Gender-Inszenierungen in der antiken Literatur, Iphis 5 (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verl. Trier, 2010), pp. 45-63 • On Pliny's praise of his wife. Pliny's use of Propertius, Ovid, and Statius. |
| Kersten, Markus and Evelyn Syré, "Trajan, sein Pferd, sein Triumph und ein verschlungener Weg zu den Göttern: Zur Poetik der Apotheose im Panegyricus des jüngeren Plinius," Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 16 (2013) 419-436 • In his description of Trajan, Pliny deviates intentionally from Flavian imagery, especially Silv. 1.1. At the same time, Pliny cannot avoid using previous apotheoses. |
| Quintilian |
| Villaseñor Cuspinera, Patricia, "La expresión del dolor: Un sentimiento prescrito (Quint., Inst. Or., VI. pr., y Stat., Silv., V.V.)," Nova Tellus: Anuario del Centro de Estudios Clásicos 24.1 (2006) 91-121 • A discussion of a passage in Quintilian and Silv 5.5 to illustrate the difference between consolationes, epicedia and lamentationes from a rhetorical point of view. |
| Silius Italicus |
| Alexis, Louis E. M., School of Nero: Europe's first Christian Ruler Identified and Excerpts Edited from his Literary Heirs, Silius Italicus, Papinius Statius, Valerius Flaccus with Textual Notes, Commentaries, Illustrations (Aberdeen, 1975) • Review: Usher, Classical Review 27 (1977): 279-81 |
| Bernstein, Neil Warren, "Stimulant manes: The Ghost in Lucan, Statius, and Silius Italicus," Dissertation, Duke, 2000 |
| Bernstein, Neil W., "Light on the Water in Silius Italicus' Punica and Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae," Mnemosyne Ser. 4 69 (2016) 1050-1057 • Among other points, the reception of the Hannibal passage (Sil. 7.143-145) in Statius (Theb. 12.270-273) and the use of both in Claudian (Rapt. Pros. 3.444-446). |
| Billerbeck, M., "Der Unterweltsbescreibung in den Punica des Silius Italicus," Hermes 111 (1983): 326-338 • His description is mostly from Virgil with some motives from Ovid, Seneca, Valerius Flaccus and Statius. |
| Brugnoli, G., "Silio, Stazio, Ausonio e Foca Carm. de Verg. 38-39," Giornale italiano di filologia: Rivista trimestrale di cultura 40 (1988): 237-40 • Silius 8.209 could have come from Catullus 68.8 because of the way Statius read it. Silv. 3.5.1-2 contaminates the texts of Silius and Catullus. An echo of this is found in Focas, through Ausonius, Epic. In patr. 29-30, which comes directly from Statius. |
| Gärtner, Thomas, "Die praemilitaerische Ausbildung des Scipio Africanus," Maia: Rivista di Letterature Classiche 55 (2003) 317-319 • On the description of Scipio's education in Silius Italicus (8.551-558) and its relation to Achilles' education at Ach. 2.110-120. |
| Karakasis, Evangelos, "Homeric Receptions in Flavian Epic: Intertextual Characterization in Punica 7," in Antony Augoustakis, ed., Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, Mnemosyne Suppl. 366 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 251-266 • The passage is best understood when read against its Homeric, Virgilian, Lucanean, and Statian backgrounds. |
| La Penna, Antonio, "Immortale Falernum: Il vino di Marziale e dei poeti latini del suo tempo," Maia 51.2 (1999): 163-81 • Discussions of the origin and price os wines in Martial, contrasted with wine in the Silvae and Silius Italicus. |
| Lovatt, Helen, "Interplay: Silus and Statius in the Games of Punica 16," in A. Augoustakis, ed., Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus (Leiden: Brill, 2010): 155-76 |
| Marks, Raymond David, "Statio-Silian Relations in the Thebaid and Punica 1-2," Classical Philology 109 (2014) 130-139 • A discussion of parallels between the siege of Saguntum in Punica 1-2 and events in the Thebaid. |
| Ripoll, François, "Les interactions entre Stace et Silius Italicus," Revue des études anciennes 117 (2015) 621-637 |
| Ripoll, François, "Statius and Silius Italicus," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 425-443 • Study of the relationship between Statius and Silius, including the dates of their literary activities. |
| Risi, Alessandro, "Achille nell'Achilleide staziana e nella figura di Podeto nel XIVo libro dei Punica," in Florian Schaffenrath, ed., Silius Italicus: Akten der Innsbrucker Tagung vom 19.-21. Juni 2008, Studien zur klassischen Philologie 164 (Bern/Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2010): 167-184 • Podaetus in Book 14 is a fictional character derived from both Statius' and Virgil's Achilles. |
| Sanna, Lorenzo, "Partenopeo e Podeto: due pueri dell'epica flavia e l'ossimoro arma-puer,: Prometheus: Rivista Quadrimestrale di Studi Classici 30 (2004) 261-268 • On similarities between Statius' Parthenopeus and Silius Italicus' Podetus (Pun. 14.492-515) and the relation with his sources. |
| Sanna, Lorenzo, "Partenopeo e Podeto: Due pueri dell'epica flavia e l'ossimoro arma-puer," Prometheus 30.3 (2004): 261-68 • On the sources for and a comparison between Statius' Parthenopeus and Silius' Podetus (Pun. 14.492-515). |
| Smolenaars, Hans, "'On went the steed, on went the driver:' An intertextual analysis of Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 6.256-264, Statius Thebais 7.632-639 and Silius Punica 7.667-679," in Rodie Risselada, Jan R. de Jong, and A. Machtelt Bolkestein, edd., On Latin: Linguistic and literary studies in honour of Harm Pinkster (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1996): 151-61 |
| Sturt, N.J.H., "Four Sexual Similes in Statius," Latomus 41 (1982): 833-840 • On Theb. 10.646-649; and Ach. 1.615-618, 758-760, and 839-840. |
| Thuile, W., Furiae in der nachklassischen Epik: Unterzuschengen zu Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Papinius Statius' Thebais und Silius Italicus' Punica, Diss. Innsbruck, 1980 |
| Vinchesi, Maria Assunta, "Imilce e Deidamia, due figure femminili dell' epica flavia (e una probabile ripresa da Silio Italico nell' Achilleide de Stazio)," Invigilata lucernis 21 (1999): 445-52 |
| Vinchesi, Maria Assunta, " L'episodio del serpente libico nel 4 libro dei Punica di Silio Italico e il gusto del sensazionale nell'epica flavia," in Luigi Castagna and Chiara Riboldi, edd., Amicitiae templa serena: Studi in onore di Giuseppe Aricò (Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2008): 2.1585-1606 • Silius' passage is derived from Ovid and Statius. |
Valerius Flaccus |
| Agri, Dalida, "Marching Towards Masculinity: Female pudor in Statius' Thebaid and Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica," Latomus 73 (2014) 721-747 • A study of pudor in Statius and Valerius Flaccus. |
| Briguglio, Stefano, "Ipsipile tra Ovidio e l'epica flavia: Ritratti di signora," in Federica Bessone and Sabrina Stroppa, eds., Lettori latini e italiani di Ovidio: Atti del convegno, Università di Torino, 9-10 novembre 2017, Quaderni della Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale 18 (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2019), 41-49 |
| Cannizzaro, F. "Elementi argonautici nel monile di Armonia (Stat. Theb. II 269-305)," Maia 69.3 (2017) 524-36 |
| Dominik, William J., "Ratio et dei: Psychology and the Supernatural in the Lemnian Episode," in Carl Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 8, Collection Latomus 239 (Bruxelles: Latomus, 1997): 29-50 • Reviews: Chevallier, Revue des études latines 76 (1998): 459-460; Rochette, L'Antiquité classique 68 (1999): 390-91; Lamour, RBPh 78.1 (2000): 224-26 |
| Gärtner, Thomas, "Thetis und Jason über die erste Seefahrt: eine übersehene Berührung zwischen zwei flavischen Epikern," Grazer Beiträge: Zeitschrift für die klassische Altertumswissenschaft 23 (2000): 143-46 • Thetis' words at Ach. 1.61-63) recall Jason's in Valerius Flaccus (1.168 ff.). |
| Heerink, Mark, "Valerius Flaccus and Statius," chapter 4 of Echoing Hylas: A Study in Hellenistic and Roman Metapoetics, Wisconsin studies in classics (Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2015): 113-153 •An examination of the treatment of the Hylas myth in Hellenistic and Roman poetry from a metapoetic perspective. Statius "treats the Hylas myth in a short passage of just four lines [5.441-44] that... Function as a mise-en-abyme of the construction of the Thebaid itself," according to Harden. • Review: Harden, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.12 |
| Lovatt, Helen, "The Female Gaze in Flavian Epic: Looking Out From the Walls in Valerius Flaccus and Statius," in R.R. Nauta, H.-J. van Dam, and J.J.L. Smolenaars, edd., Flavian Poetry, Mnemosyne suppl. 207 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 59-78 • "A study of the teichoscopies performed by Statius' Antigone (Theb. 7 and 11) and Valerius Flaccus' Medea (Book 6). Statius' version is a radical reworking of teichoscopy, where Antigone takes a female oppositional stance toward epic but also becomes a version of the dangerous lamenting fury who perpetuates battle. Medea's perspective and attitudes differ from that of the narrator and his ideal readers. Her contradictions map onto the contradictions of the female gaze." |
| Lovatt, Helen, "Following after Valerius: Argonautic imagery in the Thebaid," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 408-424 • On the relationship between the Thebaid and and Apollonius of Rhodes and Valerius Flaccus, especially on Theb. 8.211-214 and 254-258, which refer specifically to the Argonauts. |
| Parkes, Ruth, "Sed tardum (Ach., 1.47): Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica as Prequel to Statius' Achilleid," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 63 (2009): 107-13 • An intertextual analysis shows how Statius relies on Valerius to explain the futility of Thetis' efforts to save Achilles. |
| Parkes, Ruth, "The Argonautic expedition of the Argives: Models of Heroism in Statius' Thebaid," Classical Quarterly N.S. 64 (2014) 778-786 • The Thebaid engages with the Flavian as well as the Hellenistic Argonautica if we assume that Valerius Flaccus's text up to (at least) the depiction of the arrival of the Argonauts at Colchis (5.177) was accessible to Statius. This allows Statius to include nautical images as a pseudo-maritime episode, a common epic theme otherwise missing from the Thebaid. It also enables Statius to reinforce positive and negative character traits. |
| Parkes, Ruth, "The Epics of Statius and Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica," in Mark A.J. Heerink and Gesine Manuwald, edd., Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 326-339 • On Statius' intertextual relationship with Valerius and his position as the later poet. • Reviews: Blum, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015; Dee, Classical Review N.S. 66 (2016) 136-138 |
| Perutelli, Alessandro, "Ulisse a Sciro (e Giasone in Colchide): Stat. Ach. 1.734 ss.," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 56 (2006): 87-91 • A comparison of Ulysses' arrival in Scyros with Jason's arrival in Colchis shows the innovation of the Achilleid against the models of Valerius Flaccus. Statius constantly innovates the narrative form and strategy to increase the psychological depth of his characters. |
| Poortvliet, Harm Marien, "Textual Problems in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica" Mnemosyne Ser. 4 66 (2013) 791-793 • Examination of Arg. 6.708-710 on the basis of parallels in Silv. 5.1.211 And Lucretius 2.847. |
| Ripoll, François, "Mémoire de Valérius Flaccus dans l'Achilléide de Stace," Revue des études anciennes 116 (2014) 83-103 • "The classification and study of different types of Valerian reminiscences in the Achilleid from the point of view of its intellectual genesis (incident memory, derived memory, combined memory, diffuse memory, and allusive memory) throws light both on Statius' poetical technique and on Valerius' literary posterity" (from LAPH). |
| Smolenaars, Hans, "'On went the steed, on went the driver:' An intertextual analysis of Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 6.256-264, Statius Thebais 7.632-639 and Silius Punica 7.667-679," in Rodie Risselada, Jan R. de Jong, and A. Machtelt Bolkestein, edd., On Latin: Linguistic and literary studies in honour of Harm Pinkster (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1996): 151-61 |
| Smolenaars, J., "Quellen und Rezeption: die Verarbeitung homerischer Motive bei Valerius Flaccus und Statius," in eds. M. Korn and H. J. Tschiedel, edd., Ratis omnia vincet, Spudasmata 48 (Hildesheim: Olms, 1991): 57-71 |
| Stover, T., "Apollonius, Valerius Flaccus, and Statius: Argonautic Elements in Thebaid 3.499-647," The American Journal of Philology 130.3 (2009): 439-55 |
| Stover, Timothy, "Civil War and the Argonautic Program of Statius's Thebaid" in Lauren Donovan Ginsberg and Darcy A. Krasne (ed.), After 69 CE: Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome, Trends in Classics, Supplementary volume 65 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), 109-22 • Review: Jessica Blum-Sorensen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.01.14 |
| Thuile, W., Furiae in der nachklassischen Epik: Unterzuschengen zu Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Papinius Statius' Thebais und Silius Italicus' Punica, Diss. Innsbruck, 1980 |