General Studies

Ahl, F.M., "Lucan and Statius," in T. James Luce, ed., Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome (New York: Scribner's, 1982): 2.917-41.

Anderson, Peter J., "Fame is the spur": Memoria, Gloria, and Poetry Among the Elite in Flavian Rome," thesis, Cincinnati, 2003
• Statius does not see the Silvae for his own immortalization, leaving that to the epics.

Andouche, Iris and Paul Simelon, "Stace et la mortalité masculine," Latomus 54.2 (1995): 319-23

Aricò, G., Richerche Staziane (Palermo, 1972)

Ash, Rhiannon, "War came in disarray... (Thebaid 7.616): Statius and the Depiction of Battle," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 207-220
• On the construction of the battle-scenes in Statius.

Barchiesi, Alessandro, "Genealogie letterarie nell' epica imperiale: Fondamentalismo e ironia," in Ernst August Schmidt, ed., L'histoire littéraire immanente dans la poésie latine, Vandœuvres-Genève, 21-25 août 2000: Huit exposés suivis de discussions (Genève-Vandœuvres: Fondation Hardt, 2001): 315-54
• Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, and Statius show a tension between respect for the epic canon and an ironic, subversive worldview.
• Reviews: Korenjak, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 56.3-4 (2003): 204-208; Hardie, Classical Review n.s. 53.2 (2003): 355-57; Ambühl, Museum Helveticum 61.4 (2004): 252; Dangel, Revue des études latines 80 (2002): 314-17

Bernstein, N.W., "Ancestors, Status, and Self-Presentation in Statius' Thebaid," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 133.2 (2003): 353-79

Bernstein, N.W., In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic, Phoenix. Supplementary Volume 48 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008)

Bernstein, Neil W., "Family and Kinship in the Works of Statius," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 139-154

Bernstein, Neil W., "Nec tibi sufficiat transmissae gloria vitae: Otium and Ambition from Statius to Ennodius," Classical Journal 115.1 (2019) 63-85

Bessone, Federica, "Polis, Court, Empire: Greek Culture, Roman Society, and the System of Genres in Statius' Poetry," in Antony Augoustakis, ed., Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, Mnemosyne Suppl. 366 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 215-233
• "The Thebaid and the Silvae are connected by a unitary conception of poetry as a socially prestigious profession, a trade on which authority is conferred by comparison with archetypes of Greek literature: the Homeric aoidos, the lyric singer in the manner of Pindar, the figures of the mythic vates, or the god of poetry, Apollo. Statius's construction of his poetic identity is thus a mixture of the archaic and the contemporary. The historically different experiences of Greek literature are integrated into the ecumenical frame of the Roman empire, and almost into an ecumenical poetics," (from LAPH).

Citroni, Mario, "Edito e inedito, pubblico e privato: Marziale, Stazio e la circolazione dei testi scritti in età flavia," Segno e testo: International Journal of Manuscripts and Text Transmission 13 (2015) 89-123
• On the publication and diffusion of works during the Flavian age on the basis of evidence from Martial and Statius.

Delarue, Fernand, "Paradis," 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): 283-96

Delarue, F., Stace, poète épique: Originalité et cohérence (diss., 1990), Bibliothèque d'études classiques 20 (Louvain: Peeters, 2000)
• Reviews: Delarue, "Deux interprétations récentes de la Thébaïde de Stace," Vox Latina 160 (2000): 32-44; Dominik, Classical Review 52.1 (2002): 70-72; Kytzler, Gnomon 75.3 (2003): 269-71

Delarue, F., 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)
• Reviews: Zehnacker, Revue des études latines 74 (1996): 357-58; Esposito, BStudLat 27.1 (1997): 248-50; Nagel, Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société Canadienne des études Classiques 52.1-2 (1998): 167-69; Lauletta, Latomus 58.4 (1999): 930-32; Estefanía, Emerita 68.1 (2000): 193-95; Leigh, Journal of Roman Studies 89 (1999): 244-45; Gibson, Classical Review n.s. 50.2 (2000): 446-48

Dominik, W.J., "Statius," in J. Miles Foley, ed., A Companion to Ancient Epic, Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005): 514-27

Dominik, William J., Carole Elizabeth Newlands, and Kyle E. Gervais, edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015)
• Review: McClellan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.

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

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

Gibson, Bruce John, "Causation in Post-Augustan Epic," in John F. Miller and Anthony John Woodman, edd., Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire: Generic Interactions, (Leiden: Brill, 2010): 29-47
• Study of aspects of causation in post-Virgilian epic in Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus, and Valerius Flaccus, esp. the causation of wars, the role of rumors, ideas of moral decline, and effects of speeches.

Gibson, Bruce, "Negative Stereotypes of Wealth in the Works of Statius," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 123-138

Hardie, Philip, Rumour and Renown: Representations of "Fama" in Western Literature, Cambridge Classical Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012): Chapter 6
Review: Augoustakis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013-02-13

Hartmann, J.M., Flavische Epik im Spannungsfeld von generischer Tradition und zeitgenössischer Gesellschaft (diss. Giessen, 2003), Europäische Hochschulschriften: Reihe 15, Klassische Sprachen und Kulturen 91 (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004)

Henderson, J.G.W., Fighting for Rome. Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• Review: Martindale, Journal of Roman Studies 89 (1999): 238-39

Heslin, Peter J., "Statius and the Greek Tragedians on Athens, Thebes and Rome," in J.J.L. Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam, Ruurd R. Nauta (edd.), The Poetry of Statius, Mnemosyne Suppl. 306 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 111-28

Hinds, S., "Do-It-Yourself Literary Tradition: Statius, Martial and Others," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 39 (1997): 187-207

Hinds, S.E., "Essential Epic: Genre and Gender from Macer to Statius," in M. Depew and D. Obbink (edd.), Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society (Cambridge, MA, 2000)

Hulls, Jean-Michel, "Greek Author, Greek Past: Statius, Athens, and the Tragic Self," in Antony Augoustakis, ed., Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, Mnemosyne Suppl. 366 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 193-213
• "In the Silvae, Statius portrays himself as a Latin poet and shows his independence from his literary tradition through the reversal and amalgamation of the plots, scenes, and characterizations of Greek tragedy. The Athens of Greek tragedy, a city that symbolizes the ideals of its society, is taken over by Statius and used to express a set of Roman and Flavian themes. In the Thebaid, he rejects the opportunity to write about Domitian's conquests and avoids mythological themes that might legitimize the current imperial regime. This was not a choice made by Statius's contemporaries, Valerius and Silius. The Greek theme allows Statius to look forward to a literary future where Roman literary mores control the Greek predecessors" (from LAPH).

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.

Kissel, Walter, "Statius als Epiker (1934-2003)," Lustrum 46 (2004): 7-272
• Summary of scholarship on Statius' epics.

La Penna, Antonio, Eros dai cento volti. Modelli etici ed estetici nell' età dei Flavi (Venezia: Marsilio, 2000)
• Review: Lévy, Gnomon 80.5 (2008): 401-405

Lagière, Anne, La Thébaïde de Stace et le sublime, Collection Latomus 358 (Bruxelles, Societété d'Études Latines de Bruxelles - Latomus, 2017)
• Review: Kyle Gervais, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.01.39

Laguna Mariscal, Gabriel, Estacio, Biblioteca de la literatura latina: Escritores y textos (Madrid: Ed. Clásicas, 1998)
• Review: Tordeura, Latomus 60.2 (2001): 557

Leberl, Jens, Domitian und die Dichter. Poesie als Medium der Herrschaftsdarstellung, Hypomnemata 154 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004)
• Reviews: Lorenz, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 59.1-2 (2006): 29-33; Henriksén, Gnomon 78.8 (2006): 692-99; Lambrecht, Gymnasium 113.5 (2006): 481-83

Liberman, G., "Textes à histoires: Virgile et Stace," MEFRA 106.2 (1994): 1137-49

Liberman, Gauthier, "Quelques cas de calque dans la littérature grecque et latine de l'époque impériale, en particulier flavienne (Stace, Valerius Flaccus, Flavius Josèphe)," in B. Bortolussi, M. Keller, S. Minon, and L. Sznajder, edd., Traduire, Transposer, Transmettre dans l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, TIMA: Textes, Images et Monuments de l'Antiquité au haut Moyen Age (Paris: Picard, 2009): 135-46

Markus, D.D., "Performing the Book: The Recital of Epic in First-Century C. E. Rome," ClAnt 19.1 (2000): 138-79
• Both Statius as a poet, who performed regualrly at Domitian's court, and Suetonius, who acted as Hadrian's ab epistulis some twenty years after Statius' death, defend the waning reputation of the contemporary epic recital in an effort to reclaim it as a prestigious component of imperial literary culture.

Markus, D.D., "The Politics of Epic Performance in Statius," in A.J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik, edd., Flavian Rome. Culture, Image, Text (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 431-68

Markus, D.D., "Grim Pleasures: Statius's Poetic Consolationes," Arethusa 37.1 (2004): 105-35
• Statius co-opts the feminine genre of lamentation-traditionally constructed as dangerous and excessive. he sublimates the expression of human pain and grief into a cathartic consolatio.

Martindale, Charles Anthony, review of Henderson, J.G.W., A Roman Life (1988), Journal of Roman Studies 89 (1999): 238-39

McAuley, Mairéad, Reproducing Rome: Motherhood in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
• Reviews: Chinn, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016; Pyy Classical Review N.S. 66 (2016) 423-424

McGuire, D.T., Acts of Silence: Civil War, Tyranny and Suicide in the Flavian Epics, Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien 33 (Hildesheim: Olms, 1997)
• Reviews: Benoist, L'Antiquité classique 68 (1999): 414-16; Dewar, Classical Review 50.1 (2000): 60-61

Micozzi, Laura, "Il tema dell'addio: Ripetizione, sperimentalismo, strategie di continuità e altri aspetti della tecnica poetica di Stazio," Maia 54.1 (2002): 51-70
• Analysis of farewells as a compositional motif in Statius.

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, "Brumes et nuages dans les épopées de Lucain, Stace et Silius Italicus: entre mythologie et météorologie," in Ch. Cusset, ed., La Météorologie dans l' Antiquité: entre science et croyance. Actes du Colloque International Interdisciplinaire de Toulouse 2-3-4 mai 2002, Centre Jean Palerne, Mémoires 25 (Saint-Étienne Cedex 2: Publications de l' Université de Saint-Étienne, 2003): 179-200

Morzadec, F., Les images du monde: Structure, écriture et esthétique du paysage dans les œuvres de Stace et Silius (Bruxelles: Éditions Latomus, 2009)

Müller, H., Studia Statiana, diss. inaug., Rostock (Berlin: Heinrich, 1894)
• Link

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

Negro, I., Studio zu Stazio (Firenze: Ariani, 1919)
• Review: Ammendola, RIGI 3 (1919): 336.

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, "Mothers in Statius's Poetry: Sorrows and Surrogates," Helios 33.2 (2006): 203-26
• Despite the reverence for the idea of the mother in Roman society, there are no ideal mothers in the poetry of Statius. In the Silvae, Statius envisages an alternative family structure in which men usurp women's traditional role of childrearing. Examples include Theb. 3.135-146, 9.360-362. and 12.791-793; Silv. 3.3.119-121, 5.2.75-79, 5.3.64-66 and 241-245, 5.5.81-85; and other passages.

Newlands, C.E., "Statius' Self-Conscious Poetics: Hexameter on Hexameter," in W.J. Dominik, J. Garthwaite, and P.A. Roche, edd., Writing Politics in Imperial Rome (Leiden: Brill, 2009): 387-404
• On, especially, Silv. 1.5, 3.2, and 3.5.
• Review: Faversani, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.12.26

Newlands, Carole E., "Straight From the Horse's Mouth: Arion in Silvae 1.1," Mouseion: Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société canadienne des études classiques 11 (2011) 341-360
• Although the reference to the horse Arion at the center of Silv. 1.1 is brief (52-55), it nevertheless opens up different ways of reading the poem generically and politically. Arion played a significant role in the Thebaid as king Adrastus's horse; in Silv. 1.1, Arion's imagined reaction to Domitian's equestrian statue offers an interpretive crux in the encomium. Through allusion to his own epic, Statius suggests a possible method of reading the first of his Silvae as a critical complement to his epic in contemporary Rome" (from LAPH).

Newlands, Carole Elizabeth, Statius, Poet Between Rome and Naples, Classical Literature and Society (London: Bristol Classical Pr., 2012)

Newlands, Carole E., Statius: Poet between Rome and Naples, Classical Literature and Society (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2012)
• Review: G. Brunetta, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.05.50

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."

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, "Forme dell'immaginario nell'età dei Flavi," Maia 59.2 (2007): 315-26
• Examination of passages in Statius and Valerius Flaccus to illustrate the conjunction of poetry and figurative art in the Flavian period.

Reitz, Christiane, "Ursprünge epischer Helden: Mythologie, Genealogie und Aitiologie im Argiverkatalog von Statius' Thebais," in Christiane Reitz and Anke Walter, edd., Von Ursachen sprechen: Eine aitiologische Spurensuche = Telling Origins: On the Lookout for Aetiology Spudasmata 162 (Hildesheim: Olms, 2014), pp. 59-77
• Reviews: Chassignet, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 67 (2014) 241-244; Fry, Museum Helveticum 72 (2015) 235

Ripoll, F., La morale héroïque dans les épopées latines d' époque flavienne: tradition et innovation (Louvain: Peeters, 1998)
• Review: Geyssen, Classical Review 50.2 (2000): 451-53

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.

Rosati, Gianpiero, "La boiterie de Mademoiselle Élégie: un pied volé et ensuite retrouvé (aventures d' un genre littéraire entre les Augustéens et Stace)," in J. Fabre-Serris and A. Deremetz, edd., Élégie et épopée dans la poésie ovidienne (Héroïdes et Amours). En hommage à Simone Viarre, 15 et 16 mai 1998, Édition du Conseil scientifique de l' université Charles-de-Gaulle-Lille 3. Travaux & recherches. UL 3. (Villeneuve d' Ascq (Nord): Université Charles-de-Gaule-Lille 3, 1999): 147-63

Rosati, G., "Muse and power in the poetry of Statius," in E. Spentzou and D. Fowler, edd., Cultivating the Muse: Struggles for power and inspiration in classical literature (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002): 229-51

Rosati, Gianpiero, "Luxury and Love: The Encomium as Aestheticisation of Power 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), 41-58
• "By celebrating luxury and aestheticizing power, Martial and Statius suggested a cultural and political role for themselves as poets in the service of the imperator. Luxury was culturally legitimized and revealed its functionality as a political instrument not of disintegration (the traditional accusation of moralists) but of social cohesion. By aestheticizing power, Flavian encomiastic poetry moderated the severity of power and masked its aggressive characteristics. Flavian poetry shows that the reformulated language of the encomium, the product of the foreign political culture of Hellenistic monarchies, could be an instrument for the legitimization of autocratic power."

Rosati, Gianpiero, "I tria corda di Stazio, poeta greco, romano e napoletano," pp. 15-34 of Alessia Bonadeo, Alberto Canobbio, and Fabio Gasti, edd., Filellenismo e identità romana in età flavia: Atti della VIII giornata ghisleriana di filologia classica (Pavia, 10-11 novembre 2009) (Como: Ibis, 2011)
• In the Silvae, Statius depicts himself with the traits of an archaic Greek poet, as a Roman vates, and as Neapolitan, the last of which integrates the other identities.
• Review: Basile, BStudLat 42.2 (2012): 831-33

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 the current trends and provided the people with an idealized view of the emperor.
• Review: Sannicandro Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.08.11

Scheffler, G.A.Chr., "Von den lateinischen Heldendichten ausser dem Virgil, deren Gedichte auf unsere Zeiten gekommen sind," Windeburgs humanistiches Magazin (1788): 141-65, 220-44, 321-43; (1790): 115-134, 204-227

Schmitzer, U., "Dichtung und Propaganda im 1. Jh. n. Chr.," in G. Weber and M. Zimmermann, edd., Propaganda - Selbstdarstellung - Repräsentation im römischen Kaiserreich des I. Jhs. n. Chr., Historia Einzelschriften 164 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2003): 205-26

Scott, Kenneth, "Statius' Adulation of Domitian," The American Journal of Philology 54 (1933): 247-59

Smolenaars, Johannes J. L., Harm-Jan van Dam, and Ruurd R. Nauta (edd.), The Poetry of Statius, Mnemosyne Supplement 306 (Leiden: Brill, 2008)
• Review: P. Chaudhuri, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.07.13; W. Dominik, Classical Review 60.2 (2010): 465-67

Taisne, A.-M.,"Quelques animaux apprivoisés chez Stace," Homme et animal (1995): 351-66

Tandoi, V., "Gli epici di fine I seculo dopo Cristo, o Il crepusculo degli dei," Atene e Roma: Rassegna trimestrale dell'Associazione Italiana di Cultura classica 30 (1985): 154-169
• Cultural and ideological context. VF: fascinated by adventure and exoticism, sentimental, without ideal or time. SI: national heroic conscience of Romans. S: violent and pathetic, as close to a novel as to epic, represents best the tastes of late antiquity.

Venini, P., "Stazio poeta doctus?" Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo, Classe di Lettere, Scienze morali e storiche 103 (1969): 461-76
• The opinion of F. Delarue, ("Sur deux passages de Stace," Orpheus 15 (1968) 13-31) that Statius is an erudite poet doesn't correspond to reality. He has solid learning, but adheres too much to his predecessors.

Vessey, D., "Honouring Statius," in F. Delarue et al., ed., Epicedion. Hommage à P. Papinius Statius, 96-1996, UFR Langues, littératures Poitiers, Publications de la Licorne, 38 (Poitiers, 1996): 7-24

Vessey, D.T., "Statius. [II 2] P. Papinius Statius. Lateinischer Epiker des späten 1. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. I. Leben, II. Werk, III. Nachwirkung," in Der Neue Pauly, Band XI. Sam - Tal (Stuttgart & Weimar: J.B. Metzler, 2001): 925-28

Voigt, Astrid, "Female lament in Greek and Roman epic poetry: its cultural discourses and narrative presentation," diss. Oxford, 2004
• Statius redefines grief as the very site of agency and makes female lament the main device for the defence of social values in his poem.

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.

Walter, Anke, Erzählen und Gesang im flavischen Epos, Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft, Beihefte, Neue Folge 5 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014)
• Reviews: Jäger, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015

Statius the Poet: Biography

Abbamonte, G., "Naples: A Poet's City: Attitudes Towards Statius and Virgil in the Fifteenth Century," in J. Hughes and C. Buongiovanni, edd., Remembering Parthenope: The Reception of Classical Naples from Antiquity to the Present (Oxford, 2015), pp. 170-88

Anonymous, "Statius and his Age," rev. of Valpy, P. Papinii Statii Opera Omnia ex editione Bipontina cum notis et interpretations in Usum Delphini 1824, The British Quarterly Review 26 no. 52 (Oct. 1, 1857), 281-307
• On Statius' art and his personal sadness.

Cousin, J., "Nature et mission du poète dans la poésie Latine, XV: Valérius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, Stace," Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale 40.2 (1939): 375-84

Criado Boado, C., "Notas sobre la cronología de la Tebaida estaciana," [with summary in English] FlorIlib 7 (1996): 53-76
• The author dates the proemium of the Thebaid to 89 and, on the basis of this, dates Statius' Capitoline defeat to 90, not to 94.

Curzio, G. G., Studio su P. Papinio Stazio (Catania: Niccolò Giannotta, 1893)
•Section 1 is on Statius the man. Section 2 is on the Thebaid and Silvae.

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.

De Rosalia, Antonino, " Tesi, controtesi e qualche idea nuova su P. Papinio Stazio visto da Dante," in Luigi Castagna and Chiara Riboldi, edd., Amicitiae templa serena: Studi in onore di Giuseppe Aricò (Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2008): 1.471-90
• An examination of Statius' affinity to Christian virtues.

Delarue, F., "Stace et ses contemporains," Latomus 33 (1974): 536-548
•Statius had enemies, but seems friendly with all extant contemporary authors.

Dodwell, D., Annales Velleiani, Quintiliani et Statii, seu Vitae P. Pellei Paterculi, F. Fabii Quintiliani, P. Publii Statii (obiterque Juvenalis), pro temporum ordine, dispositae (Oxford, 1698)

Gibson, Bruce John, "Statius and Insomnia: Allusion and Meaning in Silvae 5.4," CQ n.s. 46.2 (1996): 457-68
• Statius plays on the tradition of insomnia literature, but the poem is not autobiographical or indicative of contemporary sentiment.

Hardie, A., "Statius and the Carmen Saeculare of 88," in F. Delarue et al., edd., Epicedion. Hommage à P. Papinius Statius, 96-1996, UFR Langues, littératures Poitiers, Publications de la Licorne 38 (Poitiers, 1996)

Hardie, Alex, "Poetry and Politics at the Games of Domitian," in Anthony James Boyle and William J. Dominik, edd., Flavian Rome: Culture, Image, Text (Leiden: Brill, 2003): 125-47
• On the Capitolia and a reassessment of Statius' participation (Silv. 5.3.215-233 and 3.5.31-33).

Helm, R., "Papinius (8): P. Papinius Statius," in Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, vol. 36 (1949): 984-1000

Kerckhoff, Paulus, Duae quaestiones Papinianae, Diss. Inaug. Univ. Frederic-Willem. (Berlin: H. S. Herrmann, 1884?)
• On Statius' dates and the dates of his works and on the extemporaneous nature of Silvae, including style and language.

Klodt, C., "Statius. Publius Papinius Statius; geb. um 40/50 n. Chr. in Neapel; gest. nach Mitte 95 n. Chr.," in O. Schütze, ed., Metzler Lexikon Antiker Autoren (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1997): 663-66

Laguna Mariscal, Gabriel, "La Silva 5.4 de Estacio: Plegaria al sueño," Habis 21 (1990): 121-38
•The poet identifies himself with Orpheus. The poem invokes more Mercury than Somnus, asking not for sleep but death. It is possible that the death of a loved one (likely his wife) was the inspiration.

Lehanneur, L., De Publii Papinii Statii Vita et Operibus Quaestiones (La Rochelle, 1878): 223-8
• On Statius' Quellen.

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").

Marastoni, A., "Der Dichter Statius," Altertum 15 (1969): 220-37

Parkes, Ruth, "Reading Statius Through a Biographical Lens," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 466-480
• On Statius' construction of his persona and its role in his reception.

Vessey, D.W.T.C., "Sidonius, Polla and the Two Poets," The Classical Bulletin 50 (1973-74): 37-39
• Sidonius Apollinaris believed that Polla Argentaria re-married after Lucan's death. The source of his assumption is unclear. It is unlikely that she married Statius, as Sidonius implies.

Chronology of Statius' Literary Output

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

Broscius (Brožek), M., "Quo tempore Statii Epicedium patris conscriptum sit," Eos 82 (1994): 53-4
• Statius began the epicedium shortly after his father's death (ca. AD 82), but never finished it.

Friedländer, L., De temporibus librorum Martialis Domitiano imperante editorum et Silvarum Statii. Programm der Akademie zu Regmont (Regmont, 1862)

Friedländer, L., Darstellung aus der Sittengeschichte Roms, III (Münster, 1871): 390-396
• A summary of the arguments in his 1862 Programm.

Heinsius, Nicolaus, Adversariorum libri IV, ed. P. Burman the Younger (Harlingen, 1742), 240-41
• Chiefly on Silv. 5.3, 5.5. and Statius' chronology (pp. 586-97). Emendations to: Thebaid 2.437, 3.644 (p. 160, both read "sanguine victo"), and 8.707 (p. 293, read "apicem Aetolae"); Silvae 1.1.18 (p. 240, read "exutis"), 1.3.83-89 (p. 488, brief discussion), 3.5.78 (p. 732, "Euboicis tenuisne ac"), 4.2.30 but perhaps 1.5.43 (p. 708, "in seriem"), 5.1.130 (p. 240, read "dares"), 5.3.12 (p. 148, read "verso"), 5.4.12 (p. 188, "vafer").

Nohl, Hermann, Quaestiones Statianae, Diss. inaug. (Berlin, 1871)
• On the chronology of Statius' works and the stemma of the manuscripts of the Silvae.

Speranza, F., "L'inizio e la pubblicazione della Selve di P. Papinio Stazio," Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia della Università di Napoli 1 (1951): 29-33
• Statius began to compose the Silvae in 80 and published them in 92-95.

Speranza, F., "La data di composizione della prima Selva di Stazio," Studi italiani di filologia classica 25 (1951): 135-148
• The erection of the statue in 1.1 was after the victory over the Chatti. Silv. 1.1 was composed for the double triumph over the Chatti and the Dacians in 89.

Speranza, F., "Note sulla cronologia di P. Papinio Stazio," Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia della Università di Napoli 7 (1957): 107-116
• Silv. 1.2.256-9 allows us to calculate the date of his birth, which was 61. The epicedium for his father was written three months after his death.

Wachsmuth, C., "Der Archetypus der Silven des Statius," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie n.F., 29 (1874): 355-6

The Achilleid: General Discussions

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.

Aricò, G., "L'Achilleida di Stazio: Tradizione litteraria e invenzione narrativa," Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.32.5 (1986) 2925-2964

Aricò, G., "Rileggendo l'Achilleide," 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): 185-99

Augoustakis, Antony, "Achilles and the Poetics of Manhood: Re(de)fining Europe and Asia in Statius' Achilleid," Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 109 (2015-2016) 195-219
• "Examination of the Europe/Asia binarism in Statius's Achilleid as a means of understanding the polarities of male/female, West/East, Greek/barbarian, and ultimately Roman/non-Roman. Helen's abduction by Paris and the discourse on the succession of empires in Statius's poem reflect Thetis's own transformation of Achilles into a woman. Through his cross-dressing and the impregnation of Deidamia, marked in the text as a violent attack, Achilles comes of age on the liminally-other island of Scyros by replicating Paris's rapina. The 'European' Achilles incorporates both the effeminate traits of the East and the warlike manliness of the West; he also ultimately embodies the 'Asian' other, which he is destined to conquer."

Barchiesi, Alessandro, "La guerra di Troia non avrà luogo: Il proemio dell'Achilleide di Stazio," AION 18 (1996): 45-62
• Distinction between epic and autoironic aspects of the proem. Analysis of epic elements and questions regarding the modern tendency to find it as more elegiac.

Barchiesi, Alessandro, "Masculinity in the 90's: the education of Achilles in Statius and Quintilian," in Michael Paschalis, ed., Roman and Greek imperial epic, Rethymnon classical studies 2 (Herakleion: Crete UP, 2005), 47-75

Beltran Noguer, M.T., En torno a la Aquileida de Estacio, Dissertation, U. de Murcia, 1980

Bessone, Federica, "The Hero's Extended Family: Familial and Narrative Tensions in Statius' Achilleid," in Nikoletta Manioti, ed., Family in Flavian Epic, Mnemosyne suppl. 394 (Leiden, 2016)
• "Achilleid's family dynamics are much more fluid than Thebaid's, and therefore closer to those of Ovid's Metamorphoses than those of Statius' own earlier work" (from Davis' review). •Review: Davis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.03.04

Bessone, Federica, "Visions of a Hero: Optical Illusions and Multifocal Epic in Statius's Achilleid," Helios 45.2 (2018) 169-94

Bitto, Gregor, Vergimus in senium: Statius' Achilleis als Alterswerk, Hypomnemata 202 (Gottingen, 2016)

Braund, Susanna Morton and Giles Gilbert, "An ABC of Epic ira: Anger, Beasts, and Cannibalism," YClS 32 (2003): 250-85
• Achilles' description of his eating wild animals in infancy (Ach. 2.96-102) indicates a tendency toward aggression and anger. A comparison with Aen. 12.101-109; Lucan 1.204-12; Theb. 1.395-433, 8.383-94, and 12.736-40; and Silius 5.306-315 illustrates this and how ira in epic takes its moral aspect from its context.

Cameron, Alan, "Young Achilles in the Roman World," Journal of Roman Studies 99 (2009): 1-22 and plate
• Common features in the representation of Achilles in Roman poetry and art and, in particular, of Roman interest in his childhood support the hypothesis that illustrated mythographic handbooks existed. Statius' Achilleid bears a relationship to a cycle of scenes representing Achilles' early years known from wall-paintings, mosaics, sarcophagi and the 4th-cent. A.D. Achilles plate from the Kaiseraugst treasure. Although the surviving book of the Achilleid concerns the pre-Troy years, Statius' real focus was the Trojan War itself.

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).

Chinn, Christopher M., "Intertext, Metapoetry, and Visuality in the Achilleid," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 173-188

Coffee, Neil, Christopher Forstall, Damien Nelis, Lavinia Milić Galli, Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry: Contemporary Approaches,Trends in Classics, Supplementary Volume 64 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020)

Cowan, R., introduction to Dilke, O.A.W., ed., Achilleid, edited with introduction, apparatus criticus and notes by O.A.W. Dilke and a new introduction by Robert Cowan (Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2005)

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.

Davis, Peter J., "Statius' Achilleid: The Paradoxical Epic," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 157-172
• The generic and thematic paradoxes of the poem, in particular surrounding Achilles.

Delarue, Fernand, "Les deux épopées de Stace," Actes du Xe Congrès de l'Association Guillaume Budé, Toulouse 8-12 avril 1978 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1980), 184-85

Delarue, F. "Guerre et Amour: Unité et cohérence de l'Achilléide," Vox Latina 178 (2008) 73-83

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.

Fantham, E., "Chironis Exemplum: On Teachers and Surrogate Fathers in Achilleid and Silvae," Hermathena 167 (1999): 59-70

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.

Fortgens, H.W., "Publius Papinius Statius, de latijnse dichter van het kinderleven," Hermeneus 31 (1959): 52-9

Franchet D'Espèrey, S., "A propos du travestissement d'Achille dans l'Achilléide de Stace: Sexe, nature et transgression," in J. Champeaux and M. Chassignet, edd., Aere Perennius. En hommage à Hubert Zehnacker, Roma antiqua (Paris: Presses de l' Université Paris - Sorbonne, 2006), 439-54

Ganiban, Randall T., "The Beginnings of the Achilleid," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 73-87

Gärtner, Thomas, "Mythologische Paradigmen für einen Achill in Frauenkleidern: zu einer scheinbar unpassenden Gleichnisreihe in der statianischen Achilleis," Arctos 38 (2004): 9-15
• On Ach. 1.259-65.

Gärtner, Thomas, " Buchgrenzen in der lateinischen Epik als Kristallisationspunkte intertextueller Bezugnahmen," Maia 61.2 (2009): 260-73
• The division of books in post-Augustean epics has its roots in archaic Latin epic.

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.

Giraud, François, "Coup de théÂtre à Skyros: la révélation d'Achille: interprétation d'un sarcophage attique conservé au Musée du Louvre," Latomus 65.1 (2006): 119-23 and pll.
• Study of a third-century sarcophagus in the Louvre, including iconographical and literary influences, including the Achilleid.

Grypdonck, M., Étude sur l'Achilléide de Stace, Travail présenté au Concours universitaire belge, 1933-5. Summary in RBPh (1936): 295

Harrauer, Christine, "Why Styx? Some Remarks on Statius's Achilleid," Wiener Studien 123 (2010): 167-75
• Statius was responsible for the myth of Thetis dipping Achilles in the River Styx.

Heslin, Peter J., The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005)
• Reviews: Bernstein, The American Journal of Philology 128.1 (2006): 142-45; Cowan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.04.53; Delarue, Gnomon 79.8 (2007): 755-57; Lindheim, Classical Philology 102.3 (2007): 323-28; Lovatt, Classical Review 57.1 (2007): 124-26

Heslin, Peter, "Lemmatizing Latin and Quantifying the Achilleid," in N.Coffee, C. Forstall, D.Nelis, L. Milić Galli, Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry: Contemporary Approaches,Trends in Classics, Supplementary Volume 64 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 389-408

Hibst, P., "Periculosae plenum opus aleae? Zur Frage der Herrscherkritik in der Achilleis des Statius," Eos 91 (2004): 251-73

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."

Klodt, C., "Der kleine Achill: Ironische Destruktion homerischen Heldentums in der Achilleis des Statius," in R.F. Glei, ed., Ironie. Griechische und lateinische Fallstudien, Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium 80 (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009): 179-228

Konstan, D., afterword to D.R. Slavitt, Broken Columns: Two Roman Epic Fragments: The Achilleid of Publius Papinius Statius and The Rape of Proserpine of Claudius Claudianus (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997)

Koster, Severin, "Liebe und Krieg in der Achilleis des Statius," Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft, N.F. 5 (1979): 189-208
• Interpretation of proemium, comparison with the Homeric themes of love and war.

Kozák, Dániel, "The Dawn of Achilles: Light Imagery in the Iliad and Statius' Achilleid," Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 47.4 (2007): 369-85
• All three descriptions of dawn in the Achilleid (1.242-245, 1.819-820, and 2,1-4) are tightly connected with the transformations of Achilles in the poem. They also recall the dawn opening of Iliad 19 and the Homeric system of metaphors and symbols comparing the hero's return into battle to the arrival of light and dawn. The genitor coruscae lucis in th ethird passage can be identified as Jupiter.

Kozák, Dániel, "Trust and Mistrust in the Achilleid," in A. Augoustakis, E. Buckley and C. Stocks, eds., Fides in Flavian Literature (Toronto, 2019), 147-67
• Review: E.V. Mulhern, BMCR 2020.07.26

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.

Leite, Leni Ribeiro, "Épica, 2: Ovídio, Lucano e Estácio, Bibliotheca Latina (São Paulo: Ed. da Universidade de São Paulo, 2016; also Campinas: Unicamp, 2016)

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.

McAuley, Mairéad, "Ambiguus sexus: Epic Masculinity in Transition in Statius' Achilleid," Akroterion 55 (2010) 37-60
• "The complex post-Ovidian representation of gender in the Achilleid bears implications for our understanding of Roman epic as a genre. As Achilles struggles toward his literary destiny as the ultimate Homeric warrior, the poem's allusive exploration of gender ultimately reorients the tense relationship of the epic hero to women and amor, and of the epic genre to its own institutionalized masculinity," (from LAPH).

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.

Mota, Bernardo, "Efeito poético e retórico dos compostos na Aquileida de Estácio," Euphrosyne n.s. 30 (2002): 239-46
• Discussion of Statius' word innovations in the Achilleid to determine how much Statius follows tradition.

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.

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.

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, "Love or War?: Erotic and Martial Poetics in Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae," Classical Journal 110 (2014-2015) 471-492
• "A treatment of genre, love, and violence in De raptu Proserpinae, with particular reference to the precedents of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Statius' Achilleid" (from LAPH).

Puccini-Delbey, Géraldine, "Sexus ambiguus et viol: Le métamorphose d' Hermaphrodite chez Ovide et le travestissement d' Achilles chez Stace," in J.-M. Fontanier, ed., Amor Romanus. Amours romaines. Études et anthologie, Collection 'Interferences' (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008): 175-86

Rimell, Victoria, The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire's Inward Turn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• In chapter 4, "Statius (Silv. 1.5), Martial, and Vitruvius provide examples of this rich theme in Roman literature. Chapter five concerns the spaces where public and private meet, with readings of passages from the Georgics, Lucan and Statius' unfinished Achilleid, in which the author shows how small spaces provide a possibility for poetic intensity within the grandiosity of epic. Achilles must be enclosed in the tight rooms of the women on the small island of Scyros to manifest all his energy and manliness and to become the conquering epic hero" (from Ferenczi).
• Review: Ferenczi, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.10.26

Ripoll, François, "Réécritures d'un mythe homérique à travers le temps: Le personnage de PÂris dans l'épopée latine de Virgile à Stace," Euphrosyne n.s. 28 (2000): 83-112
• Virgil tries to resuscitate the hero. The Ilias latina revalorises Paris. Silius Italicus has a moral lens, contrasting the choice of Paris (uoluptas) with Scipio (uirtus). In Statius, the antitheses of Paris and Achilles leads to uituperatio.

Ripoll, F., "La construction d'un pays imaginaire: l'ile de Scyros dans l'Achilleide de Stace," Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé 2008.1 (2008): 146-62
• On Statius' mixture of real and fantastic elements in creating the island in a way that underscores ambiguity and reinforces Achilles' transformation.

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).

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., "L'Achilleide di Stazio, un'epica dell'ambiguità," Maia n.s. 44 (1992): 233-266
• A reworking of the introduction in his 1994 edition. The Achilleid treats homeric themes through an elegiac lens: the contrast between love and virtus are distinct to Statius' version. The beginning of the poem is infused with ambiguity.

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

Russell, C., "Boy Interrupted: Liminalities of Gender and Genre in Statius's Achilleid and Silvae 3.4," summary available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1608200 (May 14, 2010).

Russell, Craig M., "The Most Unkindest Cut: Gender, Genre, and Castration in Statius' Achilleid and Silvae 3.4," The American Journal of Philology 135 (2014) 87-121
• "The Achilleid and Silv. 3, 4, composed roughly contemporaneously, use their central characters for similar explorations of issues of gender and genre. Similarities in plot, character, and language invite a close reading of both poems together as part of Statius's exploration of the generic boundaries connected with epic's self-definition through gender and masculinity" (from LAPH).

Sanna, L., "Dust, water and sweat: the Statian puer between charm and weakness, play and war," in J.J.L. Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam, Ruurd R. Nauta (edd.), The Poetry of Statius, Mnemosyne Suppl. 306 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 195-214

Taisne, A.M., "Presence d'Homere dans l'Achilleide de Stace," Vox Latina 178 (2008): 94-103

Tillard, M., "Le masculin et le feminin dans l'Achilleide de Stace," Vox Latina 178 (2008): 84-93

Villaseñor C., Patricia, "El Aquiles de Estacio," Nova Tellus: Anuario del Centro de Estudios Clásicos 22.2 (2004) 19-39
• The incomplete Achilleid is an epyllion, a small epic that relies more on description than narration, making it different from other Roman epyllions. Two scenes are critical for the transformation of Achilles into a man: his love for Deidamia and his realization of his own mortality.

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

Williams, R., "Nestor's war effort (Stat. Ach. 1.422)," Classical Quarterly 36 (1936): 280-83
• The line "murorum... Tendunt" is important because Pylos was the center of rope manufacture.

The Silvae: General Discussions (and discussions of multiple poems)

Álvarez, María Consuelo, Iglesias, Rosa María, "Estacio, poeta áulico," in P.P. Conde Parrado and I. Velázquez, eds., La Filología latina: Mil años más, 3 vols., Beltenebros 26-28 (Madrid: Sociedad de Estudios Latinos, 2009), 1:17-532
• An analysis of Statius' relationship with his patrons and Domitian's court in the Silvae shows that Statius knew how to please his patrons and did not hesitate to do so.

Augoustakis, A. and C.E. Newlands, "Introduction: Statius's Silvae and the Poetics of Intimacy," Arethusa 40.2 (2007): 117-25

Augoustakis, Antony, and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49

Augoustakis, Antony, and R. Joy Littlewood, "Campania in the Flavian Poets' Imagination," chapter 1 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49

Basile, Anna, "Alcune riflessioni sulla rappresentazione letteraria delle ville campane in età flavia," in Olivier Devillers, ed., Neronia 9, La villégiature dans le monde romain de Tibère à Hadrien: Actes du IXe congrès de la SIEN, Scripta antiqua/Ausonius 62 (Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2014), pp. 79-87
• On villas in Persius, Martius, Pliny the Younger, and Statius.

Bernstein, Neil W., "Nec tibi sufficiat transmissae gloria vitae: Otium and Ambition from Statius to Ennodius," Classical Journal 115.1 (2019) 63-85

Bernstein, Neil W., "'A Greater Love': Fides in Statius' Silvae," in A. Augoustakis, E. Buckley and C. Stocks, eds., Fides in Flavian Literature (Toronto, 2019), 68-81
• Review: E.V. Mulhern, BMCR 2020.07.26

Bessone, Federica, "Quam Romanus honos et Graia licentia miscent: Cultural Fusion, Ethical Temper, and Poetic Blend in Statius' Ideal Campania," chapter 10 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49

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.

Bishop, J.H., "The Silvae of Statius," in M. Kelly, ed., For Service to Classical Studies: Essays in Honor of Francis Letters (Melbourne: Chishire, 1966): 15-30
• "An interpretive essay".

Bonadeo, Alessia, "Martem... aequare canendo: (Stat. Silv. 5.3.11): Divagazioni sulla concezione della poesia nelle Silvae," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 68 (2012) 111-151
• Statius' relationship with his muse and his inspiration helps reconstruct the poetic experience of the author and how Statius depicts his poetical production.

Bright, D.F., Elaborate Disarray: The Nature of Statius' Silvae, Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 108 (Meisenheim am Glan, 1980)

Broscius (Brožek), M., "De Silvarum materia et forma a Statio suis consiliis accommodata," [in Polish with a summary in Latin] Meander 21 (1966): 453-468
• How Statius uses his desire for improvization.

Buongiovanni, Claudio, "Literary Representations of Naples in Flavian Poetry," chapter 2 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49

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.

Chinn, Christopher M., "Statius and the Discourse of Ekphrasis," Dissertation, University of Washington, 2002

Coffee, Neil Andrew, "Gift and Society in the Works of Statius," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 106-122
• Statius constructs a concept of reciprocal gifts in the Thebaid and Silvae that centers around a concept of pleasure. He hence differs from Martial and Seneca.

Coleman, K.M., "Mythological figures as spokespersons in Statius' Silvae," in F. de Angelis and S. Muth, edd., Im Spiegel des Mythos. Bilderwelt und Lebenswelt. Lo speccio del mito. Immaginario e realtà. Symposium, Rom 19. - 20. Februar 1998, DAI Palilia 6 (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1999): 67-80

Coleman, K.M., "Stones in the forest: Epigraphic allusion in the Silvae," in J.J.L. Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam, Ruurd R. Nauta (edd.), The Poetry of Statius, Mnemosyne Suppl. 306 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 19-44

Coleman, Kathleen M., "Parenthetical Remarks in the Silvae," in Eleanor Dickey and Anna Chahoud, edd., Colloquial and Literary Latin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 292-317
• "The tonal range of parenthetical remarks in Statius' Silvae is wide and adds to the poems' atmosphere and character. Various sorts of expressions that commonly occur parenthetically - such as exclamations, exhortations, or expressions of credulity and sufficiency - are identified. The effects for which longer parentheses are habitually employed are discussed. With an appendix of parentheses," (from LAPH).

Coleman, Kathleen M., "Parenthetical Remarks in the Silvae," in Eleanor Dickey and Anna Chahoud, edd., Colloquial and Literary Latin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010): 292-317

Corti, Rossella, "La tematica dell'otium nelle Silvae di Stazio in Continuità e transformazioni fra Repubblica e Principato: Istituzioni, politica, società: Atti dell'incontro di studi organizzato da Università di Bari (Dipartimento mento di Scienze dell'Antichità), école francaise de Rome, in collaborazione con Unive., ed. Mario Pani, Documenti e Studi 8 (Bari: Edipuglia, 1991)

Corti, R., "La tematica dell'otium nelle Silvae di Stazio," in M. Panti, ed., Continuità e trasformationi fra Repubblica e Principato (Bari, 1991): 189-224

Croisille, Jean-Michel, "Stace, peintre de Realia," 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): 235-45

Damon, Cynthia, "The Emperor's New Clothes, or, On Flattery and Encomium in the Silvae," in J.F. Miller, C. Damon, and K.S. Myers, edd., Vertis in usum: Studies in honor of Edward Courtney, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 161 (München: Saur, 2002), 174-88

Daweson, C.M., "Spoudaiogeloion: Random Thoughts on Occasional Poems," Yale Classical Studies 19 (1966): 39-76

De Bruyn, F., "The Classical Silva and the Generic Development of Scientific Writing in Seventeenth-Century England," New Literary History 32 (2001) 347-73

Dominik, William J., "Epigram and Occasional Poetry: Social Life and Values in Martial's Epigrams and Statius' Silvae," in A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome, ed. Andrew Zissos, Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World (Chichester: John Wiley, 2016), 412-433

Esposito, Paolo, "Campanian Geography in Statius' Silvae," chapter 8 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49

Fantham, E., "Chironis Exemplum: On Teachers and Surrogate Fathers in Achilleid and Silvae," Hermathena 167 (1999): 59-70

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

Galand, Perrine and Sylvie Laigneau, edd., La silve: histoire d'une écriture libérée en Europe de l'Antiquité au XVIIIe siècle, Latinitates 5 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013)
• Reviews: Charlet, Revue des études latines 91 (2013) 323-327; Furno, BiblH&R 76 (2014) Furno; T. Penguilly, "Une histoire de la silve: l'aventure d'un principe d'écriture dans les littératures européennes," Acta fabula: La recherche en litt&eeacute;rature 15 (2014)

Gibson, Bruce J., "The Silvae and Epic," in R.R. Nauta, H.-J. van Dam, and J.J.L. Smolenaars, edd., Flavian Poetry, Mnemosyne suppl. 207 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 163-84
• As most of the Silvae were written in hexameters, this article considers how they drew from epic. This includes a discussion of their generic status and Statius' treatment of Domitian, overlap between the poems and epic poetry, and how content can be shaped or modified by genre.

Grosse, Emil, Observationum in Statii Silvis specimen. Dissertatio Inauguralis (Berlin: Calvary, [1861])
• On Statius' style (including repetition), his Latin, hapax legomena, and meter in the Silvae. Includes a discussion of Markland's and Hand's emendations of 1.3.50 (on pp. 2-3).

Hahn, H., "Zu Statius Silvae," Jahrbuch für classische Philologie 115 (1877): 422

Håkanson, Lennart, Statius' Silvae: Critical and Exegetical Remarks with Some Notes on the Thebaid (Lund: Gleerup, 1969)
• Reviews: Kenney, Classical Review 85 (1971): 210-11; Luck, The American Journal of Philology 93 (1972): 493-94

Heinen, Dustin, "Dominating Nature in Vergil's Georgics and Statius' Silvae," Diss. U Florida (2011)

Johannsen, N., "Statius, Silvae 4, Praef. und die Lokalisierung der Praefationes," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 146.1 (2003): 110-12

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

Jones, Frederick M.A., "Names and Naming in Soft Poetry," in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 13, Collection Latomus 301 (2006): 5-31
• On name choice in lyric and elegiac poetry, especially Catullus and the Silvae.

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

Klodt, C., Bescheidene Grösse. Die Herrschergestalt, der Kaiserpalast und die Stadt Rom: Literarische Reflexionen monarchischer Selbstdarstellung, Hypomnemata 137 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001)
• Review: Lobe, Gymnasium 110.3 (2003): 287-89; Coleman, Classical Review 54.2 (2004): 380-81

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

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.

Kytzler, Bernhard, "Improvised myths in the Siluae of Statius," in Luigi Castagna and Chiara Riboldi, edd., Amicitiae templa serena: Studi in onore di Giuseppe Aricò (Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2008): 2.813-21
• Discussion of the means of improvization in mythological scenes in the Silvae.

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.

Laguna Mariscal, Gabriel, "Satirical Elements in Statius' Silvae: A Literary and Sociological Approach," in R.R. Nauta, H.-J. van Dam, and J.J.L. Smolenaars, edd., Flavian Poetry, Mnemosyne suppl. 207 (Leiden: Brill, 2006): 245-56

Lana, Italo, "Le Silvae di Stazio: Il poeta e il pricipe," in E. Lelli, ed., Arma Virumque... Studi di poesia e storiografia in onore di Luca Canali (Pisa: Istituti Editoriali Poligrafici Internazionali, 2002): 137-42

Lefèvre, Eckard, "Sinn und Sinnlosigkeit menschlichen Handelns in Statius' Thebais," in Luigi Castagna and Chiara Riboldi, edd., Amicitiae templa serena: Studi in onore di Giuseppe Aricò (Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2008): 2.885-905
• An examination of the Trojan myth through the Thebaid, shown through the hyperboles of cruelty and inhumanity.

Leibinger, H., Kultische Situation im lyrischer und epischer Dichtung: Untersuchungen zum Realitätsbezug in einigen Gedichten von Horaz, Properz, Tibull, Statius und Claudian, Diss. Tübingen, 2000
• Review: Galasso, Journal of Roman Studies 91 (2001): 217-18

Leite, Leni Ribeiro, "O livro e o templo: Poesia flaviana e arte cotidiana," Letras Clássicas 18 (2014) 85-93
• "The ecphrasis of everyday objects in the poems of Martial and Statius is considered as an indication of social and cultural transformations in the Flavian period."

Leite, Leni Ribeiro, "Silvas em três tempos: Emulação e engenho em Estácio, Poliziano, Quevedo," Alea: Estudos Neolatinos 19.3 (2017) 525-37

Leo, F., De Statii Silvis, Program (Göttingen, 1893)

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.

Lockwood, J.F., "On editing the Silvae of Statius," summary in PLCS 1 (Oct. 1947-May 1952): 4-5
• On the severity of judgement of the poems.

Lohrisch, H., De Papinii Statii Silvarum poetae studiis rhetoricis, Diss. Inaug. Acad. Fredericana Halensi cum Vitebergensi (Halle: C.A. Kaemmrerer, 1905)

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.

Malamud, M., "That's entertainment! Dining with Domitian in Statius' Silvae," Ramus 30 (2001): 23-45

Marastoni, A., "Nonnulla de P. Papini Stati Silvarum editionibus," Aevum 30 (1956): 354-362
• Tendencies and aspects of the editions of Vollmer, Klotz, Phillimore and Frère.

Marastoni, A.,., "Per una nuova interpretazione di Stazio poeta nelle Selve," Aevum 31 (1957): 393-414

Marastoni, A., "Per una nuova interpretazione di Stazio poeta nelle Selve, II," Aevum 32 (1958): 1-37
• Interp. of S. is too much caught on sources. But the quality of him as a client isn't determinant on his poetic production. The influence of rhetoric on him is noteworthy, but Statius' verbiage and versification still have originality.
• Review: d'Agostino, RSC 6 (1958): 328.

Martelli, Francesca, "Plumbing Helicon: Poetic Property and the Material World of Statius' Silvae," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 62 (2009) 145-77

McCarter, Stephanie Ann, "Maior post otia virtus: Public and Private in Statius, Silvae 3.5. and 4.4," Classical Journal 107.4 (2011-12): 451-81
• On how Statius situates himself and his poetry amid the social complexities of Domitianic Rome. Silv. 3.5 and 4.5 offer carefully-constructed recusationes that expose Statius' deep ambivalence toward his public poetic role as a writer of epic and panegyric, and his persona in these poems is analogous to that of Horace in his first book of Epistles. Though Statius desires public reknown and in 4.4 shows how his public and private poetry are interconnected in a complex manner, his essentially private nature precludes his taking on the most public and potentially-dangerous topic of epic song: Domitian.

McCullough, A., "Heard But Not Seen: Domitian and the Gaze in Statius' Silvae," Classical Journal 104.2 (2008-2009): 145-62
• Although S. 1.1, 1.6, and 4.1-3 attribute positive virtues to Domitian, they focus on his power and its effects, or his divine nature, but almost never on the man himself. Domitian himself appears only twice. He does not interact or converse with his subjects, and is physically isolated. This coincides with the picture drawn by ancient historians of a Domitian who shunned the public eye.

McCullough, Anna, "One Wife, One Love: Coniugalis amor, Grief and Masculinity in Statius' Silvae," pp. 175-91 of Dana LaCourse Munteanu et al., edd., Emotion, Genre and Gender in Classical Antiquity (London: Bristol Classical Pr., 2011)
• Men in the Silvae who display devotion to their wives in life and extreme grief at their death are part of a broader contemporary discourse on masculinity at Rome.
• Reviews: Lateiner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.01.04

McNelis, C., "Looking at the Forest? The Silvae and Roman Studies: Afterword," Arethusa 40.2 (2007): 279-84

Morzadec, Françoise, "Ars et natura dans les Silves de Stace," in Christophe Cusset, ed., La nature et ses représentations dans l'Antiquité: Actes du colloque des 24 et 25 octobre 1996, École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, Documents, actes et rapports pour l'éducation (Paris: CNDP, 1999): 187-197
• Reviews: Bargue-Calixto, Revue des études grecques 113.2 (2000): 681-82; Hummel, Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 3 ser. 73.1 (1999): 124-26

Myers, K.S., "Miranda fides: Poet and Patrons in Paradoxographical Landscapes in Statius' Silvae," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 44 (2000): 103-38

Myers, K.S., "Docta otia: Garden Ownership and Configurations of Leisure in Statius and Pliny the Younger," Arethusa 38.1 (2005): 103-29

Nauta, R.R., "Statius in the Silvae," in J.J.L. Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam, Ruurd R. Nauta (edd.), The Poetry of Statius, Mnemosyne Suppl. 306 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 143-174

Newlands, C.E., Statius' Silvae and the Poetics of Empire (Cambridge, 2002)
• Reviews: Morgan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.09.13; Reviews: Brown, The Ancient History Bulletin 18.3-4 (2004): 193-94; Myers, Classical Journal 100.2 (2004-2005): 213-16; Dominik, Classical Review n.s. 56.2 (2006)): 359-60; Klodt, Gnomon 78.3 (2006): 219-26; Spentzou, Journal of Roman Studies 94 (2004): 257-58; Taisne, Latomus 63.4 (2004): 995-97; Liddell, New England Classical Newsletter 31.4 (2004): 449-51; Delarue, Revue des études latines 80 (2002): 327-28

Newlands, C.E., "Statius' Prose Prefaces," 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): 229-42
• Summary in Kershner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.08.46
• The prefaces present the work to the patron and the public and show Statius' reflections on literary criticism, in that the poems are not to be taken individually but as a group.

Newlands, Carole, "The Eruption of Vesuvius in the Epistles of Statius and Pliny," in John F. Miller and A. J. Woodman, edd., Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire: Generic Interactions, Mnemosyne Suppl. 321 (Leiden, 2010): 105-22
• Silv. 3.5 and 4.4 and Pliny (Ep. 6.16 and 6.20) used the epistolary form instead of epic to create a consoling perspective. Both poets largely avoid the themes of portents and the anger of the gods and blur the boundaries between poetry and history, fiction and plain-speaking. In contrast, Martial 4.44 uses the Hellenistic genre of epideictic epigram.

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.

Newlands, Carole, "Architectural Ecphrasis in Roman Poetry," 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. 55-78
• "A cultural shift in the 1st cent. A.D. from negotium to otium, from the public monument to the villa, fostered the development of a new form of encomiastic poetry, much of it celebrating private life. Architectural ecphrasis is a mainstay of Statius' Silvae ; the occasional poem emerges as a new literary genre of the 1st cent. A.D." (from LAPH).
• Reviews: Pieri, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014; Hudson, Journal of Roman Studies 105 (2015) 414-415

Newlands, Carole, "Statius' Post-Vesuvian Landscapes and Virgil's Parthenope," in N.Coffee, C. Forstall, D.Nelis, L. Milić Galli, Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry: Contemporary Approaches,Trends in Classics, Supplementary Volume 64 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 349-72

Newmyer, S.T., Structure and Theme in the Silvae of Statius, PhD Dissertation, UNC Chapel Hill, 1976
• Summary in Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1977): 756A

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.

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

Pagán, V.E., "The Power of the Epistolary Preface from Statius to Pliny," Classical Quarterly 60.1 (2010) 194-201
• "In form, tone, and content, Epist. 3.5 resembles the epistolary prefaces to Statius' Silvae to such a degree that the resemblance may be more than coincidental. Statius appends an epistolary preface, each of which rehearses the contents of the book, to each of the first four books of the Silvae. Both letters and prefaces are highly stylized literary forms whose traditional conventions and rigid structures legitimate overt posturing and self-fashioning," (from LAPH).

Rosati, Gianpiero, "I tria corda di Stazio, poeta greco, romano e napoletano," pp. 15-34 of Alessia Bonadeo, Alberto Canobbio, and Fabio Gasti, edd., Filellenismo e identità romana in età flavia: Atti della VIII giornata ghisleriana di filologia classica (Pavia, 10-11 novembre 2009) (Como: Ibis, 2011)
• In the Silvae, Statius depicts himself with the traits of an archaic Greek poet, as a Roman vates, and as Neapolitan, which is used to integrate the other identities.
• Review: Basile, BStudLat 42.2 (2012): 831-33

Rosati, Gianpiero, "Memory, Myth, and Power in Statius's Silvae, in G. Karl Galinsky, ed., Memoria Romana: Memory in Rome and Rome in Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014)
• "Statius was conscious of his role as vates and as poeta laureatus in Flavian society, and so lays claim to the function of poetry as a primary instrument of Roman cultural memory. The poet carries out an essential role as a mediator in the construction of a communal cultural memory: he raises up private and contingent facts to a public and lasting dimension" (from LAPH).
• Reviews: Vout, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015; Popkin, Classical Review 65 (2015) 526-528; Usherwood, Journal of Roman Studies 105 (2015) 419-420; Demarolle, L'Antiquité classique 85 (2016) 468; Syson, Classical Philology 111 (2016) 300-304

Rosati, Gianpiero, "The Silvae: Poetics of Impromptu and Cultural Consumption," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 54-72
• A study of Silv. 1.pr.1-33 shows how Statius separates himself from Callimachus, Horace, and others.

Rosati, Gianpiero, "Laudes Campaniae: Myth and Fantasies of Power in Statius' Silvae," chapter 9 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49

Rühl, M., "Confer gemitus pariterque fleamus! Die Epikedien in den Silven des Statius," Hyperboreus 9.1 (2003): 114-26
• On the multiple contexts of Silv. 5.5, 2.6, and 2.praef., in which the original, occasional role of each is mixed with its role as part of a publication.

Rühl, M., Literatur gewordener Augenblick: die Silven des Statius im Kontext literarischer und sozialer Bedingungen (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2006)
• Reviews: Bernstein, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.02.26; Ariemma, BStudLat 38.1 (2008): 297-99; Masterson, Classical Review 58.2 (2008): 483-85; Rosati, Gnomon 82.1 (2010): 25-29

Schlingmeyer, Katja, "Gelegenheitsdichtung als Medium am Beispiel der römischen Dichter Statius und Martial," diss. Bielefeld, 2006

Seager, Robin, "Domitianic Themes in Statius' Silvae," in Francis Cairns and Miriam Griffin, edd., Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome: Greek and Roman Poetry and Historiography, Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 14 (ARCA 50) (Cambridge: Francis Cairns Publications, 2010): 341-74
• "On: Domitian and divinity; continuity, renewal, permanence, and the dynasty; peace, war, and Rome's imperial mission; and Domitian as the sole source of preferment. In appendix: iussus or ausus in 1.pr.19" (from LAPH).

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., "Die Originalität der sog. beschreibenden Silvae des Statius," Eos 56 (1966 [1969]): 186-97
• The originality resides in the fact that they collect all elements of descriptive poetry, from the encomion, from the action, which take on personal voices.

Szelest, H., "Rolle und Bedeutung des P. Papinius Statius als des Verfassers der Silvae in der romischen Dichtung," Eos 60 (1972): 87-101
• The newness of his occasional poems comes from his utilization of traditional elements. Transforms ecphrasis and uses it, under the influence of rhetoric, into a new form of epithalamium, and consolatio. "Le premier poete de coeur."

Taisne, Anne-Marie, "Echos épiques dans les Silves de Stace," 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): 215-34

Taisne, A.-M., "L'éloge de l'entourage chez Stace poète des Silve et Pline l'épistolier," in L. Nadjo and É. Gavoille, edd., Epistulae Antiquae III. Actes du IIIe Colloque International "L'épistolographie Antique et ses Prolongements Européens," (Université François-Rabelais, Tours, 25-27 septembre 2002) (Louvain: Peeters, 2004): 169-77

Taisne, A.-M., "Avatars du Dialogue des orateurs de Tacite, dans les Silves de Stace et les Epitres de Pline," in P. Laurence and F. Guillaumont, edd., Epistulae Antiquae IV. Actes du IVe Colloque International, "L'Epistolaire Antique et ses Prolongements Européens," (Université François-Rabelais, Tours, 1-2-3 décembre 2004 (Louvain: Peeters, 2006): 161-69

Talbot, John, "The Alcaic Strophe: A Critical Survey," Dissertation, Boston U., 2001

Traglia, A., "De P. Papinio Statio Silvarum poeta," Latinitas 15 (1967): 171-178
• The author takes a middle path between seeing the poems as expressions of every poetic sentiment and gratifications of louanges exagérées.

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.

Van Dam, H.-J., "Epische scènes in Statius' Silvae," Lampas 37 (2004): 102-21

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."

Van Dam, Harm-Jan, "Wandering Woods Again: From Poliziano to Grotius," in Johannes J. L. Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam, and Ruurd R. Nauta, edd., The Poetry of Statius, Mnemosyne Supplement 306 (Leiden, 2008): 45-64

Vessey, D.W.T., "Transience Preserved: Style and Theme in Statius' Silvae," Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.32.5 (1986) 2754-2802

Villaseñor Cuspinera, Patricia, "Inventio en las Silvas," Nova Tellus 14 (1996): 193-227

Weber, La préciosité de pensée et d'expression dans les Silves de Stace, Mémoire de diplome et d'ét. sup. Fac. des Lettres de Paris, 1936. Summary in Revue des études latines (1936): 390

Willis, J.A., "The Silvae of Statius and Their Editors," Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société Canadienne des études Classiques 20 (1966): 305-324
• Examines Silv. 1.3 at ten points to illustrate the corruptness of Matritensis 3678 and to defend older, skeptical editors against newer, conservative ones. Plea for returning to emphasis on reading and writing Greek and Latin, at least in advanced programs, rather than on metaclassics, the study of secondary materials.

Wray, David Lamar, "Wood: Statius's Silvae and the poetics of genius," Arethusa 40.2 (2007): 127-43
• The various meanings of silua in Statius contain a more robust notion of poetic value than has been accepted. At Silv. 1.3.13-19 Statius seems to use ingenium to mean not just native wit but also native matter, thus drawing ingenium into the semantic range covered by Latin silua when it calques on Greek hyle.

Zeiner, Noelle Kirsten, "Vox aurea: The Role of Socio-Economic Distinction in Statius' Silvae, Dissertation, Indiana U., 2002

Zeiner, N.K., Nothing ordinary here: Statius as creator of distinction in the Silvae (New York: Routledge, 2005)
• Review: Chinn, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.10.12; Heslin, Journal of Roman Studies 97 (2007): 324-26

Zeiner, N.K., "Perfecting the Ideal: Molding Roman Women in Statius's Silvae," Arethusa 40.2 (2007): 165-81
• Statius creates portraits of Violentilla (Silv. 1.2) and Priscilla (5.1) that both reflect these historical figures and embody the feminine ideals appropriate to the celebratory occasions and poetic genres in which they appear. Statius exploits his feminine constructs to fulfill his primary poetic purpose, namely to create distinction (symbolic capital) for the poems' male addressees.

Zerbini, Livio, "Il piacere di vivere in villa: Testimonianze letterarie," in Jacopo Ortalli, ed., Vivere in Villa: Le qualità delle residenze agresti in età romana. Atti del Convegno, Ferrara, gennaio 2003, Quaderni degli Annali dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Storia 3 (Firenze: Le Lettere, 2006): 11-18
• Discussions in Pliny the Younger and the Silvae on the popularity among wealthy Romans of spending time in extraurban houses, close to nature and far from civic affairs.

The Thebaid: General Discussions

Ahl, F.M., Kings, Men and Gods in the Thebaid of Statius, Dissertation, U. of Texas at Austin, 1966
• Summary in Dissertation Abstracts International 27 (1967): 3437A

Ahl, F. M., "Statius' Thebaid: A Reconsideration," Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.32.5 (1986): 2803-2912

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., "Crudelis vincit pater: Alcune note su Stazio e il mito tebano," in Antonio Aloni, Elisabetta Berardi, Giuliana Besso, and Sergio Cecchin, edd., Atti del Seminario internazionale 'I Sette a Tebe. Dal mito alla lettura'. Torino 21-22 febbraio 2001, Università degli studi di Torino. Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di filologia, linguistica e tradizione classica 'Augusto Rostagni' 18 (Bologna: Pàtron, 2002): 169-84

Augoustakis, Antony, "Per hunc utero quem linquis nostro: Mothers in Flavian Epic," pp. 205-23 of Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell, edd., Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome (Austin, TX: University of Texas Pr., 2012)
• In the Thebaid, Valerius Flaccus, and Silius Italicus, non-Roman mothers are depicted as Others, either having destructive powers that undermine the predominant male ideological code, or being a constructive apparatus that affirms the achievements of the male protagonists toward the manufacture of an imperial ideology. These make Romanness an idealized and utopian concept.
•Review: Johnson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.10.55

Augoustakis, Antony, "Haec Pietas, Haec Fides: Permutations of Trust in Statius' Thebaid," in A. Augoustakis, E. Buckley and C. Stocks, eds., Fides in Flavian Literature (Toronto, 2019), 132-46
• Review: E.V. Mulhern, BMCR 2020.07.26

Bellandi, Franco, "Stazio e Domiziano: Epica e potere: A proposito di un recente libro sulla Tebaide," Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 143 (2015) 412-435
• On Bessone 2011.

Berlincourt, Valéry, "Indiscrétion et désobéissance: Stratégies de construction du récit dans la Thébaïde de Stace," in Therese Fuhrer and Damien P. Nelis, edd., Acting with words: Communication, Rhetorical Performance and Performative Acts in Latin Literature, Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, n.F., 2. Reihe 125 (Heidelberg: Winter, 2010): 101-28
• The embassy of Tydeus to Thebes (Theb. 2.375-3.406) provides us with direct and indirect discourse. Statius uses this to underscore the artificiality of epic.

Bessone, Federica, "Voce femminile e tradizione elegiaca nella Tebaide di Stazio," in A. Aloni, E. Berardi, G. Besso, and S. Cecchin, edd., Atti del Seminario internazionale 'I Sette a Tebe. Dal mito alla lettura'. Torino 21 - 22 febbraio 2001, Università degli studi di Torino. Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di filologia, linguistica e tradizione classica 'Augusto Rostagni' 18 (Bologna: Pàtron, 2002): 185-217

Bessone, Federica, "Un mito da dimenticare: Tragedia e memoria epica nella Tebaide," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 56 (2006): 93-127

Bessone, Federica, "Epica e potere: Forma narrativa e discorso politico nella Tebaide di Stazio," in Renato Uglione, ed., "Arma virumque cano...": L' Epica dei Greci e dei Romani. Atti del Convegno Nazionale di Studi. Torino, 23 - 24 aprile 2007, Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica (Alessandria: Edizioni dell' Orso, 2008): 185-208
• Neither the myth nor the structure of the Thebaid suggests a correspondence with contemporary events, but it does provide positive and negative exempla about power.

Bessone, Federica, "Clementia e philanthropia: Atene e Roma nel finale della Tebaide," Materiali e Discussioni per l'Analisi dei Testi Classici 62 (2009) 179-214
• An analysis of the conception of clemency shows Statius' desire to present opposing ideas of the tyranny and a benevolent sovereign, which shows an integration of Greek and Roman culture.

Bessone, Federica, La Tebaide di Stazio: Epica e potere, Biblioteca di Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 24 (Pisa: Serra, 2011)
• Review: Jäger, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.09.12; F. Bellandi, "Stazio e Domiziano: Epica e potere: A proposito di un recente libro sulla Tebaide," Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 143 (2015) 412-435

Bessone, Federica, "Sondaggi di stile: A proposito di uno studio sulla Tebaide di Stazio," Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 143 (2015) 183-192
• On Sacerdoti's 2012 edition.

Bessone, Federica, "Signs of Discord: Statius's Style and the Traditions on Civil War," 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), 89-108
• Review: Jessica Blum-Sorensen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.01.14
"Flavian authors engage with their predecessors through an established language of civil war."

Bessone, Federica, "Allusive (Im-)Pertinence in Statius' Epic," in N.Coffee, C. Forstall, D.Nelis, L. Milić Galli, Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry: Contemporary Approaches,Trends in Classics, Supplementary Volume 64 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 133-168

Brantegem, Nick, "Elements of Horror in Statius' Thebaid," thesis, Faculteit Letteren & Wijsbegeerte, Uni-Gent, 2014. • Available here.

Braund, S., "A Tale of Two Cities: Statius, Thebes, and Rome," Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société Canadienne des études Classiques 60.3/4 (2006): 259-73
• On the uses made of the ancient Theban legend by Latin poets, with a specific focus on Statius. Thebes provides a vehicle for discourse about civil war and that it invites reflection on the inescapability of one's origins.

Brown, J. Into the Woods: Narrative Studies in the Thebaid of Statius with Special Reference to Books IV-VI, Dissertation, Cambridge, 1994

Casali, S., "Impius Aeneas, Impia Hypsipyle: Narrazioni menzognere dall'Eneide alla Tebaide di Stazio," Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity 12 (2003) 60-68

Caviglia, F., "Problemi di critica staziani: La Tebaide," C&S 45-46 (1973): 45-46, 138-151

Chaudhuri, Pramit, "Theomachy: Ethical Criticism and the Struggle for Authority in Epic and Tragedy," PhD Dissertation (Yale University, 2008)
• Summary in ProQuest dissertations database, ID 304389932. Discussion of Homer's Iliad, Attic tragedy, Seneca's Hercules furens, and Statius' Thebaid.

Coffee, N., "Eteocles, Polynices, and the Economics of Violence in Statius' Thebaid," The American Journal of Philology 127.3 (2006): 415-52

Coffee, Neil Andrew, The Commerce of War: Exchange and Social Order in Latin Epic (Chicago: University of Chicago Pr., 2009)
• Review: Bernstein, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009-11-11.

Criado, Cecilia, "La praeteritio proemial de la Tebaida de Estacio: ¿Vocación cíclica o virgilianista?" Myrtia 14 (1999): 101-17

Criado, C., La teología de la Tebaida Estaciana: El anti-virgilianismo de un clasicista, diss. Santiago de Compostela, 1997, Spudasmata 75 (Hildesheim: Olms, 2000)
• Review: Dominik, Classical Review 52.1 (2002): 72-73

Criado, C., "Jupiter, emperador romano: La lectura politica de la Tebaida de Estacio," Minerva: Revista de Filología Clásica 14 (2000): 87-106
• Jupiter, presented as a malevolent god, could refer to Domitian. This is used to test the difference of opinion between European and Anglo-American schools regarding whether the poem is anti-Flavian.

Dangel, Jacqueline, "L'héritage des genres grecs à Rome: épopée et tragédie, une généricité traversière?," Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé 2009.2: 146-164
• On the relationship between tragedy and epic, with emphasis on the Pharsalia and Thebaid.

De Gussem, Jeroen, "Animal Imagery in Statius' Thebaid: A Common Place for Man and Woman," Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica N.S. 113 (2016) 159-177
• "On the use of animal images in Stazio's Thebaid in relation to male and female figures. Their occurrence is linked to the transgression of qualities or expectations of this kind, for men the corruption of the virile virtus, for women the refusal of their maternal role and the ambition to self-affirm and acquire independence. In both cases the transgression is determined by the anger that dominates the epic poem. Animal metaphors become a point of convergence, a common place where gender roles oscillate and social limina vanish in favor of primitive chaos."

Delarue, Fernand, "Les deux épopées de Stace," Actes du Xe Congrès de l'Association Guillaume Budé, Toulouse 8-12 avril 1978 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1980), 184-85

Delarue, Fernand, "Deux interprétations récentes de la Thébaïde de Stace," Vox Latina 160 (2000): 32-44
• A comparison of the different interpretations of the poem by S. Franchet d'Espèrey (Conflit, violence et non-violence, 1999) and F. Delarue (Stace, poète épique, 2000) in the form of a commentary on Theb. 1.

Delarue, Fernand, "Prélude aux ténèbres: Le temps et la nuit dans le chant I de la Thébaïde," in Luigi Castagna and Chiara Riboldi, edd., Amicitiae templa serena: Studi in onore di Giuseppe Aricò (Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2008): 1.445-70
• Study of time in Theb. 1. In contrast with the Aeneid, Statius obfuscates the process of time.

Dietrich, Jessica Shaw, "Death Becomes Her: Female Suicide in Flavian Epic," Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature 38.2 (2009) 187-202
• "Statius (Th. 12.177-179), Valerius Flaccus (1.749 ff.), and Silius Italicus (2.675-680) all offer up depictions of female characters who take their own lives. But unlike their literary sisters, whose suicides are an aspect of or the result of their gender, the Flavian epic heroines commit suicide despite their gender. These episodes owe more to the historical accounts of suicide in the Julio-Claudian era than to their epic predecessors. This connection may account for why these suicides seem overtly political in their opposition to tyranny. The negative depiction of female suicide may also be indicative of a cultural backlash against the kinds of political suicides prominent in the 1st cent. A.D."

Dominik, W.J., "A Short Narrative Reading of Statius' Thebaid," in F. Delarue et al., edd., Epicedion. Hommage à P. Papinius Statius, 96-1996, UFR Langues, littératures Poitiers, Publications de la Licorne, 38 (Poitiers, 1996): 55-69

Dominik, W.J., Introduction to Villa, Giovanna Faranda, trans., Tebaide, 2 voll. (Milano: Biblioteca universale Rizzoli, 1998)

Dominik, William J., "Similies and Their Programmatic Role in the Thebaid," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 266-290
• On the similes in the poem in comparison with the Aeneid. Includes a catalog of the 236 similes in the poem.

Dupuy-Hémar, Virginie, "Définir les frontières du sanctuaire: Religion, poésie et iconographique dans la Thébaïde de Stace," in Hugues Berthelot et al., edd., Vivre et penser les frontières dans le monde méditerranéen antique: Actes du colloque tenu à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, les 29 et 30 juin 2013, Scripta antiqua: Ausonius 89 (Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2016), pp. 91-104 with plates
• The representation of borders of sacred spaces in the Thebaid and fourth-style wall painting.

Fiehn, C., Quaestiones Statianae, Dissertation, Berlin: Ebering, 1917
• Three parts: "De Thebaidos compositione," "De orationis illustratione et evidentia," and "De Thebaidos exemplis."
• Review: Schuster, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 212 (1927): 137-39

Franchet d'Espèrey, S., Conflit, violence et non-violence dans la Thébaïde de Stace, Collection d'études anciennes 60: Serie latine (Paris, Belles Lettres, 2000)
• Reviews: Delarue, "Deux interprétations récentes de la Thébaïde de Stace," Vox Latina 160 (2000): 32-44; Parkes, Journal of Roman Studies 91 (2001): 250-51; Pollmann, Gnomon 74.8 (2002): 724-25

Franchet d'Espèrey, S., "Le problème des motivations multiples ('sive... sive...') dans la Thébaïde de Stace," in A. Billault, ed., Opora. La belle saison de l'hellénisme, études de littérature antique offertes au Recteur Jacques Bompaire (Paris: Presses de l' université de Paris - Sorbonne, 2001): 23-31

Franchet d'Espèrey, S., "Nuda potestas armavit fratres. Le paradoxe du pouvoir et du conflit dans la Thébaide de Stace," in S. Franchet d' Espèrey, V. Fromentin, S. Gotteland, and J.-M. Roddaz, edd., Fondements et crises du pouvoir, Ausonius-publications: études 9 (Bordeaux: Ausonius; Paris: de Boccard, 2003): 109-17
• The opening of the Theb. Gives two themes: power and conflict, with the former causing the latter, and hence potestas in Statius is always in the nominative, always causative. Discussion of the term potestas in the epic, particularly at 1.150-51, but also at 1.187-188, 2.399, 11.654-56, and 5.324-325. The link between power and conflict was informed by the events of 69, and hence Statius uses nuda potestas to show that the power of the tyrants leads to the cruelty.

Franchet d'Espèrey, Sylvie, "Les deux conflits de la Thébaïde: Perspective dramatique et perspective épique," Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 33 (1990-1992) 105-109
• Polynices and Etheocles personify the conflict between Thebes and Argos and this is subjective and dramatic since it determines the destiny of two peoples. This structural dynamic prevents the epic from having an optimistic orientation.

Frings, I., Gespräch und Handlung in der Thebais des Statius, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 18 (Dissertation, Uni-Köln) (Stuttgart: Teubner, 1991)
• Review: Ph. Hardie, Classical Review 43 (1993): 274-75

Frings, I., Odia fraterna als manieristisches Motiv: Betrachtungen zu Senecas Thyest und Statius' Thebais, AAWM 1992.2 (Stuttgart, 1992)
• Review: Giardina, Gnomon 66 (1994): 637-38

Gärtner, Thomas, "Selbstmord in der römischen Epik der Nachaugusteischen Zeit," Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 48.3-4 (2008) 365-385
• Comparison of suicide in different authors. In Lucan (4.520-574) the fanatical, furor-like suicide of the Caesarians is a way out of a desperate situation. Suicide in Valerius Flaccus presents itself as a rationally planned act, which serves to attain personal peace. Statius is particularly familiar with defiant suicide, through which the powerless individual expresses his inner autonomy vis-à-vis the mighty tyrant. Silius Italicus had all these types in mind and combined them. With him, however, the moral judgment is overlaid by his strong bias in favor of the Romans.

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., Aux frontières du récit épique: l'emploi de l'apostrophe du narrateur dans la Thébaïde de Stace, Collection Latomus 289 (Bruxelles: Latomus, 2005)
• Reviews: Sacerdoti, BstudLat 36.1 (2006): 302-303; Ripoll, Revue des études latines 84 (2006): 394-95; Fry, Museum Helveticum 64.4 (2007): 247; Lesueur, Revue des études anciennes 109.1 (2007): 327-28; Steiniger, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 61.1-2 (2008): 61-67; McNamara, Classical Review n.s. 58.2 (2008): 487-88; Laigneau, RBPh 86.1 (2008): 182-83

Gervais, Kyle G., "Parent-Child Conflict in the Thebaid," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 221-239
• Discussion of disfunctional families in 1.557-668 and 5.17-498 and the addressing the poem itself as a child (12.810-819).

Gibson, Bruce, "Battle narrative in Statius, Thebaid," in J.J.L. Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam, Ruurd R. Nauta (edd.), The Poetry of Statius, Mnemosyne Suppl. 306 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 85-110

Gräfin von Stosch, G., Untersuchungen zu den Leichenspielen in der Thebais des P. Papinius Statius, Dissertation, Uni-Tübingen, 1968

Håkanson, L., Statius' Thebaid: Critical and exegetical remarks, Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet : Scripta minora (Lund: Gleerup, 1973)
• Review: Gossage, Classical Review 26 (1976): 271-72

Harrison, Stephen J., "Exile in Latin Epic," in Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond, ed. Jan Felix Gaertner, Mnemosyne Supplement 283 (Leiden: Brill, 2007), 129-154
• "Latin epics inherited exile as a plot feature from the Greek epic tradition, especially the theme of ktistic or foundational exile, where a hero leaves his homeland to set up a new culture. The theme of exile is traced in the six best-preserved Latin epics : Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lucan's De bello civili, Silius's Punica, Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica, and Statius's Thebaid. Such a theme illustrates and promotes the central concerns of each poem."

Heinrich, Alan John, "Longa retro series: Sacrifice and Repetition in Statius' Menoeceus Episode," Arethusa 32.2 (1999): 165-95
• In the Thebaid, Statius actively resists presenting a coherent world, projecting instead a world whose violence challenges our understanding. This is shown in Menoeceus' self-sacrifice in 10.748-751 and 10.765-772, which defies traditional narrative technique through repetition, demotion from integral unit to digression, and presentation as a failed deuotio through juxtaposition with the Capaneus episode (10.879-882). The work repeatedly undermines its own claim (1.15-17) that it will exclude the Theban past.

Helm, R., De P. Papinii Statii Thebaide (Berlin, 1892): 69-112

Hershkowitz, D., "Sexuality and Madness in Statius' Thebaid," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 33 (1994): 123-47

Hershkowitz, D., "Patterns of Madness in Statius' Thebaid," Journal of Roman Studies 85 (1995): 52

Hershkowitz, D., "'Parce metu, Cytherea': 'Failed' Intertext Repetition in Statius' Thebaid, or, Don't Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 39 (1997): 35-52

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, D.E., "Statius' Thebaid: A Glimmer of Light in a Sea of Darkness," Ramus 18 (1989): 98-118
• Book 1 uses Aen. to explore the relationship among fate, gods, and history in a way more plausible than the Vergilian model, in light of Rome's then-recent history.

Holland, J. E., Studies on the Heroic Tradition in the Thebaid of Statius, Dissertation, U. Missouri at Columbia (1976). Summary in Dissertation Abstracts 37 (1977): 5803A

Hu, Alice, "Vive, superstes: Survivors and Problems of Survival in Statius' Thebaid," PhD Dissertation (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2019), Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 3634
• Survival is a central preoccupation of the Thebaid and is a traumatic experience, as characters feel they have lived past the point when they think they should have died. This "overliving" becomes a way for Statius to reflect on his place in the epic canon and to figure his own problem of poetic belatedness.

Hulls, J.M., "The role of kingship in Statius' Thebaid," diss. University College London, 2007

Jakobi, R., "Die recusatio des Thiodamas," Philologus 141 (1997): 159-160
• On the authenticity of Theb. 8.283-285 (despite similarities with medieval clerical texts, the passage is authentic).

Jamset, C., "Death-loration: the eroticization of death in the Thebaid," Greece & Rome 51.1 (2004): 95-104
• The death of Parthenopaeus in Theb. 9, 570-907 is modelled on that of Camilla in Aen. 11, 803-819 and is portrayed as a defloration. The death may thus be read within a framework of boy versus man, and couched within terms of femininity; that is, his feminization underscores his lack of masculinity. The imagery usually associated with elegy (snow-white countenance, hairlessness, languid appearance) enhances the intimations of erotic beauty.

Keith, Alison, "Sisters and Their Secrets in Flavian Epic," in Nikoletta Manioti, ed., Family in Flavian Epic, Mnemosyne suppl. 394 (Leiden, 2016)
• Exploration of Statius' representation of sisters and quasi-sisters, both human and divine, in the Thebaid. •Review: Davis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.03.04

Keith, Alison, "Women's Fides in Statius' Thebaid," in A. Augoustakis, E. Buckley and C. Stocks, eds., Fides in Flavian Literature (Toronto, 2019), 109-31
• Review: E.V. Mulhern, BMCR 2020.07.26

Kirkpatrick, John Timothy, "Power, Madness, and the Spectacle of Suicide in Statius' Thebiad," Dissertation, Northwestern University, 2000
• Examines the poetic significance and function of suicide in Statius' Thebaid. It aims to situate patterns of self-destructive behavior within the poem's political and social discourse on the collapse of normative systems in the face of madness, violence, and civil war.

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

Kytzler, B., Statius-Studien: Beiträge zum Verständnis der Thebaid, Diss. Berlin Freie Univ., 1955

Kytzler, B., "Beobachtungen zu den Wettspielen in der Thebais des Statius," Traditio 24 (1968): 1-15
• The contests are highly original and are an important part of the structure.

Kytzler, Bernhard, "Pandere Thebas: Welches Thema hat die Thebais?" 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): 25-34

Leeman, A. D., "The Lonely Vigil: A Topos in Ancient Literature," in J. den Boeft and A.H.M. Kessels, edd., Actus: Studies in Honour of H.L.W. Nelson (Utrecht: Inst. voor Klass. Talen, 1982): 189-201

Leite, Leni Ribeiro, "Épica, 2: Ovídio, Lucano e Estácio, Bibliotheca Latina (São Paulo: Ed. da Universidade de São Paulo, 2016; also Campinas: Unicamp, 2016)

Lesueur, Roger, "La Thebaide et ses deux voix: Le politique et le privé," 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): 71-81

Li Causi, Pietro, "Dimenticare Colono: Tracce e metamorfosi del mito di Edipo nella letteratura e nella cultura romane," in Patrizia Pinotti and Massimo Stella, edd., Edipo: Margini Confini Periferie, Testi e studi di cultura classica 57 (Pisa: ETS, 2013), pp. 21-70
• On the themes of Oedipus - the Sphinx, patricide, incest, and fratricide, in Roman literature.

Lovatt, Helen, "Mad About Winning: Epic, War and Madness in the Games of Statius' Thebaid," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 46 (2001): 103-20
• The theme of madness in the Thebaid, especially in Amphiaraus, Tydeus, and Capaneus, the Funeral Games, and the war itself.

Lovatt, Helen, Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005)
• Reviews: Dunkle, Journal of Roman Studies 96 (2006): 257-58; Newlands, Classical Review 56.2 (2006): 360-62; Dewar, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.10.04

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.

Lovatt, Helen, "Death on the Margins: Statius and the Spectacle of the Dying Epic Hero," chapter 5 of Anastasia Bakogianni and Valerie M. Hope, edd., War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict, Bloomsbury classical studies monographs (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015
• "In this chapter the works of Statius are examined, in order to discuss how the location of a character, within the broader context of a scene, can influence how the reader/listener can react or relate to that character" (from Matthew's review).• Review: Matthew, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.07.05

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.

Masterson, M., "Statius' Thebaid and the Realization of Roman Manhood," Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société Canadienne des études Classiques 59.3/4 (2005) 288-315

McNamara, J., "Apostrophe in the Thebaid," rev. of S. Georgacopoulou, Aux frontières du récit épique: L'emploi de l'apostrophe du narrateur dans la Thébaïde de Stace, Collection Latomus 289 (Brussels: Latomus, 2005), Classical Review 58.2 (2008): 487-88

McNelis, Ch., "Middle-March: Statius' Thebaid and the Beginning of Battle Narrative," in S. Kyriakidis and F. De Martino, edd., Middles in Latin Poetry, Le Rane: Collana di Studi e Testi, Studi 38 (Bari: Levante editori, 2004): 261-310

Merli, Elena, "La lima e il testo da Ovidio a Marziale: Poetica e comunicazione," CentoPagine 4 (2010) 79-96
• On the use of lima and correction in Ovid, Martial, and Statius.

Micozzi, Laura, "Pathos e figure materne nella Tebaide di Stazio," Maia 50.1 (1998): 95-121
• Feminine figures and maternal love evoke pathos in the poem.

Micozzi, Laura, "Eros e pudor nella Tebaide di Stazio: Lettura dell' episodio di Atys e Ismene (Theb. VIII 554-565)," Incontri triestini di filologia classica 1 (2001-2002): 259-82

Micozzi, L., "Ille referre aliter saepe solebat idem: Ripetizione e sperimentalismo narrativo nella Tebaide in Stazio," 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): 211-28
• Summary in Kershner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.08.46
Statian epic shows a tendency to provide different versions of a story. For example, the discussion of Tydeus at 2.482-743 is repeated by Tydeus himself in Book 3. Similarly, 6.242-248 retells 4.746-765.

Moerner, F.E.L., De P. Papinii Statii Thebaide questiones criticae, grammaticae, metricae dissertatio (Regensberg, 1890)

Moreland, F.L., "The Role of Darkness in Statius: A Reading of Thebaid I," Classical Journal 70.4 (1975): 20-31
• Gloom and the inability to see, both literally and metaphorically, are important aspects of Theb. 1. Theseus has neither of these, as a symbol of the ultimate defeat of evil.

Morzadec, Françoise, "Brumes et nuages dans les épopées de Lucain, Stace et Silius Italicus: entre mythologie et météorologie," in Christophe Cusset, ed., La météorologie dans l'Antiquité: Entre science et croyance: Actes du colloque international interdisciplinaire de Toulouse, 2-3-4 mai 2002, Mémoires du Centre Jean-Palerne 25 (Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, 2003): 179-200
• Reviews: Ducos, Revue des études latines 82 (2004): 367-69; Le Blay, Revue des études grecques 118.1 (2005): 283-85

Nagle, R., Properatur in hostem more fugae: A Study of the Comparisons in the Thebaid of Statius, Dissertation, Harvard U., 1995
• Summary in DAI 56 (1995/1996) 2666-A/2667-A

O'Gorman, E.C., "Beyond recognition: Twin narratives in Statius' Thebaid," in M. Paschalis, ed., Roman and Greek imperial epic, Rethymnon classical studies 2 (Herakleion: Crete UP, 2005): 29-45

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."

Parkes, Ruth, "Dealing with Ghosts: Literary Assertion in Statius' Thebaid," Ramus 39.1 (2010): 14-23
• The portrayal of ghosts in Statius, Th. 4.553-645 can be read as a meditation on the poem's place in the literary tradition, especially against Ovid, Metamorphoses and Seneca, Oedipus.

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.

Pollmann, Karla F. L., "Ambivalence and Moral: Virtus in Roman Epic," in Stefan Freund and Meinolf Vielberg, edd., Vergil und das antike Epos: Festschrift Hans Jürgen Tschiedel, Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium 20 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008): 355-66
• Generally speaking, the value of uirtus deteriorates over time. In Statius, it is often flawed and becomes morally oscillating, also as a personification. Moreover, it is missing in episodes where one would expect its positive mention. Successful uirtus seems only possible in the private sphere, performed by women, in the context of burial, as a manifestation of religion and humanity. The increasing awareness of the ambiguity of moral values is matched, especially in the Thebaid, by the emphasis on the ambiguity of reality as a whole.

Rebeggiani, Stefano, "The Chariot Race and the Destiny of the Empire in Statius' Thebaid," Illinois Classical Studies 38 (2013) 187-206
• "Statius incorporates and gives poetic expression to Roman anxieties about imperial succession. In the chariot race in Theb. 6, Statius's presentation of Polynices as a new Phaethon connects him to Nero, the unworthy successor. Conversely, both the chariot race and the scene of Amphiaraus's death encourage the reader to regard the seer as a positive ruler figure. This strategy paves the way for Statius's description of Amphiaraus's succession in Theb. 8, an account that seems to be influenced both by the political debate on succession current in the late 1st cent. and by accounts of imperial acclamations" (from LAPH).

Rebeggiani, Stefano, The Fragility of Power: Statius, Domitian and the Politics of the Thebaid (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)
• Review: Ginsberg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.12.03

Ripoll, F., "La Thébaide de Stace entre épopée et tragédie," in M.H. Garelli-François, ed., Rome et le Tragique. Colloque international 26, 27, 28 mars 1998, Pallas 49 (Universités de Toulouse - Le Mirail, 1998): 323-40

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, "Balsami, palme e milizie: gli epici Flavi e la Giudea," in Stefano Manferlotti and Marisa Squillante, edd., Ebraismo e letteratura (Napoli: Liguori, 2008), 21-34

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

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

Thuillier, J.-P., "Stace, Thébaïde 6: Les jeux funèbres et les réalités sportives," Nikephoros 9 (1996): 151-67
• An investigation of the reality of the depiction of the games in Thebaid 6.

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."

Venini, P., "Su alcuni passi del l. X della Tebaide staziani: in margine a un recente commentario," Athenaeum 51 (1973): 384-88
• Critical review of R.D. Williams, ed., Thebaidos liber decimus (1972).

Vessey, D.W.T.C., Statius and the Thebaid (Cambridge, 1973)
• Reviews: D.E. Hill, Journal of Roman Studies 64 (1974): 278-279; Schmeling, The American Journal of Philology 96 (1975): 80-81

Welcker, F.G., "Die Späteren Thebaiden, auch die des Statius," Allgemeine Schulzeitung 2 (1832): 158 ff. = Kleine Schriften, vol. 1 (1844): 395-401

Yamada, T., "The Originality of the Thebais," Journal of Classical Studies 48 (2000): 101-12 (in Japanese)

The De bello germanico

Aricò, G., "De Statii carminis, quod de bello germanico inscribitur, fragmento," ALGP 11-13 (1974-76 [1977]): 249-254
• Supports the fragment as being Statian. Hypothesis on the circumstances of the composition and edition of the poem.

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.

Griffith, J.G., "Juvenal, Statius, and the Flavian Establishment," Greece & Rome 16 (1969): 134-50
• Summary in Proceedings of the Classical Association 65 (1968): 29-30. Satire 4 parodies the counselors of Domitian and is likely a parody of the lost Bellum Germanicum.

Jahn, O. "Vermischtes," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 9 (1854): 627 nr. 5
• The Bellum germanicum Is not an invention of Valla. This is the first connection of the text to Silv. 4.2.64-6.

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

Attributions of other Works to Statius: Panegyricus ad Calpurnium Pisonem

Beck, C., ed., Papinii Statii ad Calpurnium Pisonem Poemation (Olnodus: Brügel, 1835)

Cormiliolle, P.-L., ed. and tr. L'Achilléide et les Sylves (including the Panegyricum ad Calpurnium Pisonem "nunc primum P. Papinio Statio restitutum") (Paris, 1805)

Verdière, P., "L'auteur du Panegyricus Messalae tibullien," Latomus 13 (1954): 56-64
• Similarities among the De laude Pisonis, the Silvae, Theb., Calpurnius' Bucolica, and the Panegyricus suggest that Statius is the author of the Panegyricus which he composed in an attempt to imitate Calpurnius, the presumed author of the De laude Pisonis.

Boyancé, P., "Encore sur le Peruigilium Veneris," Revue des études latines (1950): 212-235
• Discussion of sources suggests it was composed for a real religious festival. Details of the redaction and inspiration and a comparison between Statius and the Hellenistic poets suggest that the poem is by a poet or poetess working in Naples after Statius.

Herrmann, L., "Stace interpolateur de Virgile et de Columelle," Studi in onore di Funaioli (Rome: Signorelli, 1955): 128-132
• The epilogue at the end of De Re Rustica 10 and at the end of Georgics 4 are the work of the same interpolator, Statius.

Themes in Statius' Works

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.

Augoustakis, Antony, Emma Buckley and Claire Stocks, eds., Fides in Flavian Literature, Phoenix Supplementary Volumes (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019)
• Review: E.V. Mulhern, BMCR 2020.07.26

Baier, Thomas and Ferdinand Stürner, Götter und menschliche Willensfreiheit von Lucan bis Silius Italicus, Zetemata 142 (München: Beck, 2012)
• Reviews: Delarue, Revue des études latines 90 (2012) 400-402; Schafer, Mnemosyne Ser. 4 67 (2014) 316-319; Augoustakis, The Classical World 107 (2013-2014) 553-554; Evenepoel, L'Antiquité classique 82 (2013) 349-351

Criado Boado, C., "Tragicidad y epicidad de la Tisífone estaciana", Cuadernos de Filología Clásica: Estudios Latinos 16 (1999), 141-61
• In contrast with Virgil and other ancient sources, Statius gives the Furies preeminence and makes them the cause/impetus of events.

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.

Frings, I., Odia fraterna als manieristisches Motiv: Betrachtungen zu Senecas Thyest und Statius' Thebais, AAWM 1992.2 (Stuttgart, 1992)
• Review: Giardina, Gnomon 66 (1994): 637-38

Gibson, Bruce, "Negative Stereotypes of Wealth in the Works of Statius," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 123-138

Heinen, Dustin, "Dominating Nature in Vergil's Georgics and Statius' Silvae," Diss. U Florida (2011)

Hulls, Jean-Michel, "Poetic Monuments: Grief and Consolation in Statius Silvae 3.3," pp. 150-75 of Valerie M. Hope and Janet Huskinson, edd., Memory and Mourning: Studies on Roman Death (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2011)
• It is misleading to classify S. 3.3 (written for Claudius Etruscus, the equestrian patron of Statius and Martial, to commemorate the death of his unnamed father) as a consolatio. The poem taps into the tradition of consolation, but resists easy categorization and fails to provide a genuine sense of consolation to its addressee. The poem displays competing forms of memorialization, funereal and poetic, and is underpinned by an analysis and critique of differing modes of mourning and the impact on them of the contemporary Flavian political climate.
• Reviews: Emmerson, Journal of Roman archaeology 25.2 (2012): 719-21; Harlow, Journal of Roman Studies 102 (2012): 330-32

Korneeva, Tatiana, Alter et ipse: Identità e duplicità nel sistema dei personaggi della Tebaide di Stazio, Testi e studi di cultura classica 52 (Pisa: ETS, 2011)

Kytzler, Bernhard, "Sola fida suis: Die Hypsipyle-Erzählung des Statius (Thebais, Buch 5)," Journal of Ancient Civilizations 11 (1996): 43-51
• The story is not just derived from the epic tradition, but also serves to underscore the theme of Pietas. The lengthy narrative has roots in epic tradition. The examination of a character's personal history provides a sympathetic response to her.

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.

Lóio, Ana, "Through the Past to the Future of Naples: Text and History in Silvae 4.8," chapter 11 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49

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.

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.

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.

Micozzi, Laura, "Pathos e figure materne nella Tebaide di Stazio," Maia 50.1 (1998): 95-121
• Feminine figures and maternal love evoke pathos in the poem.

Micozzi, Laura, "Eros e pudor nella Tebaide di Stazio: Lettura dell'episodio di Atys e Ismene: (Theb. 8.554-565)," in Lucio Cristante, ed., Incontri triestini di filologia classica. 1: 2001-2002, Polymnia: Studi di filologia classica 2 (Trieste: Ed. Università di Trieste, 2003): 259-82
• In the story of Atys and Ismene, just as elsewhere, Statius combines epic and elegy to modify the mythological tradition.

Narducci, Emanuele, "Nerone, Britannico e le antiche discordie fraterne (nota a Tacito, Annales XIII 15, 3 e 17, 2; con una osservazione su Erodiano III 13, 3)," Maia 50.3 (1998): 479-88
• On the nature and contents of Britannicus' song (Ann. 13.15.3), with a comparison with other fraternal conflicts (Theb. 1.130, Lucan 1.89, Livy XL 8.11-13, and Herodian).

Newlands, Carole E., Statius: Poet between Rome and Naples, Classical Literature and Society (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2012)
• Review: G. Brunetta, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.05.50

Newlands, Carole Elizabeth, "Sordida rura? Pastoral dynamics in the sphragis to Statius' Silvae," TiC 4.1 (2012): 111-31
• The word sordere in (Silv. 3.5) indicates a new direction in the contrast between city and land found in bucolic. The word implies moral and social concepts that Statius 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.

Newlands, Carole, "Fatal Unions: Marriage at Thebes," in Nikoletta Manioti, ed., Family in Flavian Epic, Mnemosyne suppl. 394 (Leiden, 2016)
• "On marriage in Statius. After brief consideration of Deidamia and Achilles, Newlands discusses the unconsummated betrothal of Ismene and Atys, the blighted marriage of Argia and Polynices, and the catastrophic relationship of Jocasta and Oedipus, arguing that polluted marriage is the cause of civil war in Thebes (p. 169)" (from Davis' review).•Review: Davis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.03.04

Pagan, Victoria Emma, "The Mourning After: Statius Thebaid 12," The American Journal of Philology 121.3 (2000): 423-52
• The final passage of Theb. 12.797-807 performs the same function for the poet and poem that the burial and aftermath rituals within the poem do for the Theban casualties and survivors: it occupies the nexus between what has gone before (composition) and what will follow (reading), allowing the poet to reflect backward upon his work and to look forward to its future.

Parkes, Ruth, "Men from Before the Moon: The Relevance of Statius Thebaid 4.275-84 to Parthenopaeus and his Arcadian Contingent," Classical Philology 100 (2005) 358-365
• "Statius' seemingly irrelevant digression on primeval Arcadian customs at Theb. 4.275-284 contributes to the wider themes of the work, especially the idea of decline."

Parkes, R.E., "Tantalus' Crime, Argive Guilt and Desecration of the Flesh in Statius' Thebaid," Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity 20 (2011): 80-92
• The Thebaid contrasts Argive innocence with Theban guilt, but the poem undercuts this throughout. Problems 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.

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.

Sacerdoti, Arianna, "Quis magna tuenti / somnus?: Scenes of Sleeplessness (and Intertextuality) in Flavian Poetry," in Antony Augoustakis, ed., Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, Mnemosyne Suppl. 366 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 13-29
• "The intertextual fabric of the poetics of sleep and dreams in Statius is indebted to Homer and Apollonius Rhodius. Though belonging to a different literary genre, Statius' Silvae comprise, just as the epic poems do, an array of passages dedicated to sleep and wakefulness, in a unique recurrence of themes that not only reminds us of the Thebaid and the Achilleid and their earlier models, but also develops along original lines. In the Silvae, sleep and sleeplessness reveal on the one hand the theme of cosmic distortion of natural and biological rhythms and on the other hand the dynamics of continuity and diffraction, when compared to the epic poems of Statius," (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

Sacerdoti, Arianna, "Semirutos ... de pulvere vultus: Vesuvius, Statius, and Trauma," chapter 12 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49

Sanna, Lorenzo, "Ignis, accendo, incendo: Il lussuoso sfarzo del puer nella poesia flavia," Acme 57.3 (2004): 287-95
• On the figure of the Ephebe in Flavian Rome (especially Statius and Valerius Flaccus), and the contemporary model of the puer delicatus.

Sanna, Lorenzo, "Achilles, the Wise Lover and His Seductive Strategies (Statius, Achilleid 1.560-92)," Classical Quarterly n.s. 57.1 (2007): 207-15
• In Statius' Achilleid love becomes the central experience in relation to the development of the young Achilles. The rape of Deidamia at Ach. 1.560-592 symbolizes the determining link of the ephebic transition, that is, of the evolution of the hero's personality. The violence of the stuprum represents the result of the seduction tactics recommended by Ovid in his Ars, but at the same time mark the departure from such strategies.

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

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

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

Valenti, Veronica, "Stazio e Anfiarao: Effetto soterico della parola," Studi classici e orientali 57 (2011): 261-302
• In Roman literature, the vates inhabits a separate plane from the living and exists vertically, that is, connected with the gods more than with men. In contrast, Statius depicts a shared world, making Amphiaraus' death a programmatic device.

van der Schuur, Marco, "Civil War on the Horizon: Seneca's Thyestes and Phoenissae in Statius's Thebaid 7," 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), 123-44
• Review: Jessica Blum-Sorensen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.01.14

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.

Bibliographical Studies

Baehrens, E., "Jahresbericht über Statius," Bursians Jahresbuch 6 (1878): 154-6; 10 (1879): 52-4

Berlincourt, Valéry, "Emericus Cruceus' Conjectures on the Thebaid and the Achilleid (1620). A Supplement to the New Edition of Statius' Epics," Mnemosyne 64.2 (2011): 285-94
• Discussion of Cruceus' emendations and their sources. Passages include Théb. 1.227, 284-285, 439-440, 461; 2.17-19, 219, 401; 4.153, 481-482; 9.99-100, 500-501, 976; 10.16-17, 215-216; 11.54; 12.58-59, 620; Ach. 1.243-244; 2.93, 132-134.

Cancik, H., "Statius, Silvae: Ein Bericht über die Forschung seit Friedrich Vollmer (1898)," Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.42.5 (1986): 2681-2726

Courtney, E., "Criticism and Elucidations of the Silvae of Statius," Transactions of the American Philological Association 114 (1984): 327-341

Frassinetti, P., "Stazio epico e la critica recente," Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo, Classe di Lettere, Scienze morali e storiche 107 (1973): 243-58

Häussler, R., "Statius Silvae 5.4 (ad somnum)," Zant 25 (1975): 106-113
• Critical bibliography.

Kissel, Walter, "Statius als Epiker (1934-2003)," Lustrum 46 (2004): 7-272
• Summary of scholarship on Statius' epics.

Schuster, M., "Literaturbericht, 1915-1925," Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 212 (1927): 131-144

Tolkiehn, J., "Bibliographie critique, 1911-1914," Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 171 (1915): 53-59

Tolkiehn, J., "Bibliographie critique, 1908-1920," Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 188 (1921): 228-234

Van Dam, H.-J., "Statius, Silvae: Forschungsbericht 1974-1984," Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.32.5 (1986): 2727-2753

Wessner, Paul, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 113 (1902): 213-4

Wessner, Paul, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 139 (1908): 186-9

Wessner, Paul, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 188 (1921): 228-234