Bibliography of Statian Studies

Themes

Bibliography by Subject Outline
Generalities, Texts, and Studies Works Attributed to Statius Manuscript Studies Aspects of Statius' Language Structure Characters	Other Authors Predecessors and Sources Contemporary Authors Literary Successors and Reception Individual Authors Realia Geography Prosopography Religion, Cults, Magic and Fate
Generalities
General Studies Biography Chronology of Statius' Literary Output The Achilleid: General Discussions The Silvae: General Discussions The Thebaid, General Discussions The De bello germanico Themes Bibliographical Studies
Works Attributed to Statius
Panegyricus ad Calpurnium Pisonem Panegyricus Messalae Pervigilium Veneris Works of Virgil and Columella
Studies of Manuscripts and Printed Editions
Achilleid Silvae Thebaid Reports/Descriptions of Individual Mss. Incunabula and Printed Editions Uncataloged Emendations and Textual Studies
Aspects of Statius' Poetry and Language
Genre and Topoi Art: Style, Composition and Aspects of his Artistic Tastes Description and Ecphrasis Aspects of Statius' Latin (Grammar, Vocabulary and Resources) Style: General Studies Recusatio Verse and Meter Treatment/Use of Myth Philosophy (including ancient philosophical schools) Politics Psychology Similes and Metaphores Speeches
Structure
The Silvae The Thebaid The Achilleid
Characters and Characterizations in Statius' Poems (For characters that appear in only one passage or one of the Silvae, see the citation index)

General General: Heroes and Heroism General: Gender and Treatment of the Sexes Family, Familial Relations, and Children Slaves Achilles Admetus Adrastus Amphiaraus Apollo Argia Atalanta Antigone Athamas Atys Cadmus Capaneus Chiron Clio Creon Deidamia Diana Dymas	Erinyes Etheocles and Polynices Hercules Hippolyta Hypsipyle Jocasta Jupiter Lycomedes Lycurgus Maeon Menoeceus Oedipus Orpheus Paris Parthenopaeus The Parthian King of Thebaid 8.286-93 Polyxo Teiresias Theseus Thetis Tisiphone Tydeus Ulysses Venus
Other Authors (Sources, Contemporaries, and Nachleben)
Predecessors and Sources

General Studies Aeschylus Alcaeus Antimachus Antiochus Apollonius Rhodius Callimachus Catullus Corippus Euripides Homer and the Homeric Hymns Horace Livy Lucan Lucretius	Lycophron Menander Nicander Ovid Pindar Plato Propertius The Romance of Ninus and Semiramis Seneca Sophocles Stesichorus Virgil (cf. too The Culex)
Contemporary Authors
Calpurnius Siculus Frontinus Juvenal Martial Petronius Pliny the Younger Silius Italicus Valerius Flaccus
Literary Successors (Reception, Nachleben and Commentators)
General (and Late Latin) The Achilleid The Silvae The Thebaid Lactantius Placidus Arguments, Summaries, and Periochae Medieval Commentaries Ps.-Fulgentius Statius' Christianity in Dante Post-medieval and Modern Reception
Individuals

Alan of Lille Alexander Neckam Ausonius Caspar von Barth Gottfried Benn Richard Bentley Benvenuto da Imola Benzo d'Alessandria Beowulf Beroaldus Boccaccio Calderinus Chaucer Claudian Claudius Gothicus Claudius Marius Victorius Dante Dracontius Dryden Ennodius Franciscus Patricius Geoffrey of Vinsauf Giovanni Colonna Giovanni del Virgilio Goethe Ildericus Jacob van Marelant	John's Apocalypse Juan de Arjona Laurent de Premierfait Gotthold Lessing C.S. Lewis Ligurinus Luxorius Gregorio Morillo Jacques d'Orville Parrasius Paulinus of Nola Perotti Petrarch Poggio Bracchiolini Politian Alexander Pope Prudentius Nicolas Poussin Quevedo Roman de Thèbes Servius Sidonius Apollinaris Tacitus Venantius Fortunatus Waltharius Christa Wolf
Realia
Uses of Statius� Works to Reconstruct/Interpret Realia
Geography

Prosopography

General
Atedius Melior
Claudius Etruscus
Dacians
Diva Domitilla
Domitian
Earinus
L. Iunius Gallio Annaeanus
Nero
Philetas

Plotius Grypus
Pollius
C. Rutilius Gallicus
Septimius Severus
Statius the Father
L. Arruntius Stella
Vespasian
Vettius Crispinus
Vibius Maximus
M. Vitorius Marcellus

Religion, Cults, Magic and Fate

General
Aphrodite
Cybele
Diana
Egyptian Divinities
Etrusca disciplina
Fate
Funereal Customs
Furies
Imperial Cult
Janus
Jupiter

Magic
Necromancy
Ornithomancy
Muses
Piety
Prayer and Forms of Prayer
Priesthood
Sacrifice
Superstition and teh Supernatural
Tellus