Genre and Topoi

Anzinger, S., Schweigen im römischen Epos: zur Dramaturgie der Kommunikation bei Vergil, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, c2007)

Aricò, Giuseppe, "Leves libelli: Su alcuni aspetti della poetica dei generi minori da Stazio a Plinio il Giovane," CentoPagine 2 (2008): 1-11
• On new perspectives on the relationship between epic and non-epic poetry in the post-Augustan period, with focus on Statius, Martial, and Pliny the Younger.

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, 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, "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).

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.

Burck, E., "Die Thebais des Statius; Die Achilleis des Statius," Das römische Epos: Grundriss der Literargeschichte nach Gattungen (Darmstadt, Wiss. Buchges. 1979): 300-358

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.

Canobbio, Alberto, "Generi grandi e generi piccoli in Marziale e in Stazio," BStudLat 44 (2014) 442-470
• In contrast with Martial, who keeps different poetic genres separate, Statius freely combines and contaminates different poetical forms.

Carderi, Flavia, "L'inno a Minerva (Stat., Theb. 2.715-74): Ekphrasis del tempio e ekphrasis votiva," Paideia 65 (2010): 103-16
• The hymn is partly derived from epic tradition and partly from Virgil, G. 3.10-49

Chinn, Christopher M., "Statius Silv. 4.6 and the Epigrammatic Origins of Ekphrasis," Classical Journal 100.3 (2004-2005): 247-63
• Silv. 4.6, writes its own literary history and "implicates itself within certain rhetorical strategies found in the ekphrastic-epigrammatic tradition."

Coleman, Kathleen, "Melior's Plane Tree: An Introduction to the Ancient Garden," in Kathleen Coleman and Pascale Derron, edd., Le jardin dans l'antiquité: Introduction et huit exposés suivis de discussions, Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique 60 (Vandɶuvres: Fondation Hardt pour l'é de l'Antiquité classique, 2014
• A discussion of Atedius Melior's garden (S.2.3) and its plane tree as a means of introducing the generic themes of gardens in antiquity.

Cowan, R.W., "'In My Beginning is My End': Origins, Cities and Foundations in Flavian epic," diss. Oxford, 2003
• In the Thebaid, constant repetition of the foundation narrative is mimetic both of that foundation and of the repetition of its attendant fratricide. It is suggested that the poem is exploring Roman themes, a suggestion supported by the conscious parallelism with Romulus and again by intertextuality.

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.

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

Franchet d'Espèrey, Sylvie, "Massacre et aristie dans l'épopée latine," in Gérard Nauroy, ed., L'écriture du massacre en littérature entre histoire et mythe: des mondes antiques à l'aube du XXIe siècle, Recherches en littérature et spiritualité 6 (Bern/Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004): 27-43
• Reviews: Banderier, RBPh 83.3 (2005): 989-91

Georgacopoulou, Sophia A., "Indices intertextuels et intergénériques: la présentation des coursiers d'Amphiaraüs et d'Admète au livre 6 de la Thébaïde de Stace (Theb. 6, 326-339)," Mnemosyne, Ser. 4, 49 (1996): 445-52
• An examination of Amphiaraus and Admetus (Theb. 6.326-339), including an analysis of textual references.

Georgacopoulou, Sophia, 1996, "Ranger/déranger: Catalogues et listes de personnages dans la Thébaide," 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): 93-129

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.

Grillone, A., "De simulatis ominibus apud Graecos et Romanos epicos poetas," ALGP 3-4 (1966-67): 274-280
• On Odyssey 14.490-502, Apollonius Rhodius 3.690-692, Aen. 5.636-8, Valerius Flaccus 1.47-50, Silius Italicus 2.561-8, and Theb. 5.134-41.

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

Juhnke, Herbert, Homerisches in römischer Epik flavischer Zeit. Untersuchung zu Szenennachbildungen und Strukturentsprechungen in Statius' Thebais und Achilleis und in Silius' Punica, Zetemata; 53 (München, Beck, 1968) (Habil.-Schr, Kiel, 1968)

Krasser, Helmut, "Statius und die Tränen des Kaisers (Silvae 2.5): Weinen als Form amphitheatralischer Kommunikation," Zeitschrift für Semiotik 28.2-4 (2006): 271-92
• Imperial crying as a topos is to be seen as derived from the amphitheater and capture the emotion of spectators.

Krumbholz, G., "Der Erzählungsstil in der Thebais des Statius, I: Vergleiche," Glotta 34 (1955): 93-138
• Comparison of the style of the Thebaid with the epics of Virgil, Ovid, Lucan and Valerius Flaccus.

Kytzler, B., "Der Bittgang der argivischen Frauen (Statius, Thebais 10.49-83)," Der altsprachliche Unterricht: Arbeitshefte zu seiner wissenschaftlichen Begründung und praktischen Gestalt 11.1 (1968): 50-61
• Traces the theme from Homer to Virgil, S.I. 7.74, and Statius. Notes on Statius' poetic art, psychological sensibility, and dramatic sense.

Laguna Mariscal, Gabriel, "Statius' Silvae 3.5.44-49 and the Genre of Ovid's Heroides," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 137.3/4 (1994): 352-57
• With "Latias Graias heroidas" (Silv. 3.5.45), Statius does does not mean Roman and Greek heroines but rather Latin and Greek works that fallinto the genre of Ovid's Heroides.

Lorenz, Gudrun, Vergleichende Interpretationen zu Silius Italicus und Statius, Dissertation, Uni-Kiel, 1968

Maugan-Chemin, Valérie, "Les couleurs du arbre chez Pline l'Ancien, Martial et Stace," in A. Rouveret, S. Dubel, and V. Naas, edd., Couleurs et Matières dans l' Antiquité: Textes, techniques et pratiques, Études de Littérature Ancienne 17 (Paris: éditions Rue d' Ulm/Presses de l' école normale supérieure, 2006): 103-26
• Reviews: Boulogne, Les Études Classiques 74.2 (2006): 180-81; Monaco. ASAA ser. 3 5.2 (2005): 521-24; Bradley, Classical Review n.s. 57.2 (2007): 548-50; Sandoz, Museum Helveticum 64.4 (2007): 264-65; Brunet, Dialogues d'histoire ancienne 34.1 (2008): 196-99; Bouffier, Revue des études anciennes 110.1 (2008): 261-62

McNelis, C., Reflexive Narratives: Poetics and Civil War in Statius' Thebaid, PhD Dissertation, University of California (Los Angeles), 2000

McNelis, C., Statius' Thebaid and the poetics of civil war (Cambridge, 2007)
• Review: Chinn, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.06.01; Cowan, Classical Review 60.1 (2010): 133-35; Heslin, Journal of Roman Studies 98 (2008): 243-45

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.

Río Torres-Murciano, Antonio, "Las secuelas del fortunati ambo (Verg., Aen. IX 446-449): epopeya e imperio," Emerita 77.2 (2009): 295-315
• The tension in Virgil's definition of epic and the problems it created for Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, and Statius.

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

Scotto di Clemente, L., "Le similitudini con il toro nella Tebaide e nell' Achilleide di Papinio Stazio, nei loro rapporti con Virgilio," Vichiana 3rd ser., 3 (1992): 117-138

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

Tanner, R. G., "Epic Tradition and Epigram in Statius," Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.32.5 (1986): 3020-3046

Turolla, E., "La poesia epica di Papinio Stazio," Orpheus 3 (1956): 134-51
• The faults of the Thebaid are in its first half. But in second half, and in the Ach., he shows more humanity, in a tragic sense, and his treatment of myth takes on a concrete vitality, which explains the medieval judgments on the poet.

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."

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.

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

Zweierlein, O., "Statius, Lucan, Curtius Rufus und das hellenistische Epos," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 131 (1988): 67-84
• On Theb. 1 and 11, Lucan 6, Curtius Rufus 9.5.

Art and Nature

Argenio, R., Stazio poeta degle affetti (Roma, 1966)
• Reviews: André, Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 41 (1967): 363; D'Agostino, RSC 14 (1966): 184

Aricò, G., "Interpretazioni recenti della composizione della Thebaide," ALGP 5-6 (1968-69): 216-233
• Recent studies of composition as well as baroque and classical models.

Aricò, G., "Sulle tracce di una poetica staziana," BStudLat 1 (1971): 217-239
• Statius has a conscious classical poeticism, based on Augustan rhetorico-literary theories and in accordance with the cultural orientations of the Flavian reign. It is, however, difficult to attach him to a coherent system of ideas. Next to the idea of the poeta doctus and limae labor, one finds the survival of a neoteric motif of poetry as a iocus and a lusus as well as a Callimachean antithesis.

Bardon, H., "Le goût à l'époque des Flaviens," Latomus 21 (1962): 732-48

Barker, E. Ph., "Poeta fit: A Study of Statius," summary in Proceedings of the Classical Association (1933): 26-8.
• A discussion of the career of Statius. The lack of unity in the Thebaid is because the literary taste of the time favored a mechanical and episodic production.

Basile, Anna, "Stazio e Pollio Felice: Caratteristiche di un elogio," Atene e Roma: Rassegna trimestrale dell'Associazione Italiana di Cultura classica N.S. 6 (1-2) (2012): 77-89
• Analysis of how Statius addresses Pollius Felix and how Statius justifies his art to his patron.

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.

Bisanti, Armando, "Il fior del giglio nella tradizione poetica latina e medievale (note ad Alessandro Neckam, Suppl. defect. 1.331-46)," MLatJb 40.1 (2005): 85-95
• Use of Statius to illustrate the brevity and fleeting nature of life and of existence, and the ephemerality of the flower.

Bolaffi, E., "L'epica del 1 secolo dell'impero," Giornale italiano di filologia: Rivista trimestrale di cultura 12 (1959): 218-230
• Discusses "la tendance novatrice" of Lucan and the neoclassicism of Silius, Valerius Flaccus and Statius.

Brakman, C., "Ad Statium," Mnemosyne 57 (1919): 251-62
• Statius neglects composition, modifies the sense of certain words, uses many verbs rarely used by others, uncommon forms, archaisisms, etc. Critical observations to passages: Silv. 1.5.10; 2.6.30, 7.14; 4.3.145; 5.1.207, 3.112; Theb. 10; 3.139, 932; 11.57, 273; Ach. 2.16.

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.

Burck, Erich, Vom römischen Manierismus: Von der Dichtung der frühen römischen Kaiserzeit (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1971)
• Review: W. Schetter, Gnomon 47 (1975): 556-62

Burck, E., "Epische Bestattungsszenen: Ein litterar-historischer Versuch," in E. Lefevre, ed., Vom Menschenbild in der römischen Literatur II, Bibl. der Klass. Altertumswiss. N.F. 2R 72 (Heidelberg, 1981): 429-487
• A discussion of the funeral scenes in: Aen. 6.175-84, 212-235; 11.1-224; Od. 24.41-97; Il. 23.1-257 VF 3.274-361; SI 10.503-77, 12.473-8, 15.381-98; Theb. 6.1-248, 12.1-104; 12.409-463; and Lucan 8.712-793.

Cancik, H., Untersuchungen zur lyrischen Kunst des P. Papinius Statius, Spudasmata, 13 (Hildesheim: Olms, 1965) (Dissertation, Tübingen, 1966)
• Reviews: von Albrecht, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 21 (1968): 157-9; Gugal, Gymnasium 74 (1967): 551-3; Grimal, Revue des études grecques 80 (1967): 651-2; E. Lefèvre, Gnomon 38 (1966): 571-6; Bardon, Latomus 25 (1966): 322; Kenney, Classical Review 80 (1966): 331-33

Cancik, H., "Grösse und Kolossalität als religiöse un aesthetische Kategorien: Versuch einer Begriffsbestimmung am Beispiel von Statius, Silve I 1, Ecus maximus Domitiani Imperatoris," Vrel 7 (1990): 51-68
• Silv. 1.1. is the only poetic description of a colossus, and gives us keys to its symbolism.

Cancik-Lindemaier, Hildegard, "Ein Mahl für Hercules: Ein Versuch zu Statius, Silve 4.6, Hercules Epitrapezios," Der altsprachliche Unterricht: Arbeitshefte zu seiner wissenschaftlichen Begründung und praktischen Gestalt 14.3 (1971): 43-65
• The style of the poem.

Castagna, L., "Ambiguità di Stazio: Nota a Theb. 1.109 sg.," Prometheus 7 (1981): 50-62
• The flow of ambiguity to expressive ends is a mark of Statius' style.

Chinn, Christopher, "Nec discolor amnis: Intertext and Aesthetics in Statius' Shield of Crenaeus (Theb. 9.332-338)," Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société Canadienne des études Classiques 64.1/2 (2010): 148-69
• Statius' use of water- and color imagery at Theb. 9.332-338 constitutes an intertextual metaphor that reveals the poet's aesthetics of description.

Criado Boado, C., "A Reflection upon the Appliction of Mannerism and Historical Baroque: Concepts in Roman Literature", Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 50.3 (2000), 299-331

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.

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

Curcio, G., Storio della letteratura latina nell'età imperiale (Milano: Soc. ed. Dante Alighieri, 1934)
•Review: Ernout, Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes (1936): 183-5.

Damsté, P.H., "Statii Goethique concentus," Mnemosyne 51 (1923): 128
• Review: Schuster, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 212 (1927): 144

Davis, P.J., "The Fabric of History in Statius' Thebaid," in C. Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 7, Collection Latomus 227 (Bruxelles, 1994) 464-83

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.

Döpp, S., "Cyllarus und andere Rosse in römischem Herrscherlob," Hermes 124 (1996): 321-332.
• An investigation of Silv. 1.1.53-55, Martial 8.21.5-8, Claudian 8.554-564, Paneg. 6 [7].8.5 and Ausonius 20.18.5 demonstrates that horse itself exemplifies the divinity of the emperor.

Échinard-Garin, P., "La douceur de Stace dans la Thébaïde," Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé (1992): 31-46
• His poetry is dominated by dulcedo much more than by violence or excess.

Flores, E., "Interpretazioni staziane, I," RAAN 39 (1964): 3-21
• Notes in Thebaid 10.370-5 and Ach. 1.232-6, two passages characteristic of the clear-obscure style of Statius.

Friedrich, H., "Über die Silvae des Statius (insbesondere V,4, Somnus) und die Frage des literarischen Manierismus," in H.M. Sckommodau and F. Schalk, edd., Wort und Text: Festschrift für Fritz Schalk (Frankfurt am Main: V. Klosterman, 1963): 34-56

Gagliardi, Donato, Cultura e critica letteraria a Roma nel I secolo d.C. ([Palermo]: Palumbo, 1978)

Garvey, J.J., "Silvae 2.5 and Statius' art," Latomus 48 (1989): 627-31
• Study on the originality of the epigram through comparison with the rest of Book 2.

Gothein, M. "Der Titel von Statius' Silvae," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 63 (1908): 475-76
• Cf. A. Klotz, "Der Titel von Statius' Silvae," Rheinisched Museum für Philologie 64 (1909) 473-74.

Hegyi, G., "Horace et Stace," Acta classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis 10-11 (1974-75): 95-99
• Differences between the two, especially in their attitudes toward life, poetry, and power. Statius admires the sumptuous while Horace prefers moderation.

Hinds, Stephen E., "Cinna, Statius, and 'Immanent Literary History' in the Cultural Economy," in Ernst A. Schmidt, ed., L'histoire littéraire immanente dans la poésie latine: Huit exposés suivis de discussions, Entretiens sue l'antiquité classique 47 (Vandoeuvres-Genève: Fondation Hardt, 2001): 221-57

Hulls, J.-M., "What's in a Name? Repetition of Names in Statius' Thebaid," Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London 49 (2006): 131-44

Illuminati, L., Stazio e la poesia (Milano: Soc. Dante Alighieri, 1936)

Jahnke, H., Homerisches in roemischer Epik flavischer Zeit: Untersuchungen zu Szenennachbildung und Strukturentsprechungen in Statius' Thebais und Achilleis und in Silius' Punica, Zetemata 13 (Munchen: Beck, 1972)

Kese, W., Untersuchungen zu Epikedion und Consolatio von Catullus bis Statius, Dissertation, Uni-Göttingen, 1950

Klotz, Alfred, "Der Titel von Statius' Silvae," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 64 (1909): 473-74
• A response to M. Gothein, "Der Titel von Statius' Silvae," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 63 (1908) 475-76

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.

Krüger, A., Die lyrische Kunst des Publius Papinius Statius in Silve II 2: Villa Surrentina Polii Felicis, Europäische Hochschulschriften Reihe 15, Klassische Sprachen und Literaturen 75 (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1998)
• Review: Gibson, Classical Review 53.1 (2003): 105-106

Krumbholz, G., Die Thebais des Statius: Untersuchungen zum Erzählungstil. Dissertation, Uni-Göttingen, 1953

Krumbholz, G., "Der Erzählungsstil in der Thebais des Statius, II: Die Wesenszüge des Stiles," Glotta 34 (1955): 231-60
• Discusses Statius' picturesque appeal to reader's sensuality, predilection for extraordinary scenes, unique and remarkable, and tendency to use psychology.

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

Lockwood, J.F., "A note on Silvae 4.4," in P. de Jonge et al., edd., Ut pictura poesis: Studia Latina P.J. Enk oblata (Leiden: Brill, 1955): 107-111.
• This poem pays witness to a sensible nature but doesn't give matter to the study of a personal conception of literary epître.

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

Lunderstedt, R., De synecdochae apud P. Papinium Statium usu, Dissertation, Uni- Jena, 1913
• Review: Helm, BPhW (1914)

Manning, C.E., "Grief in Statius' Epicedia," AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 50 (1978): 251-60
• Grief from Statius seems extravagant, but he was writing in conformity with elegiac consolatio and epic and was not describing the actual behavior of the bereaved.

Manso, "Ueber Statius," Nachtrag zu Sulzers Theorie der schönen Künste 8.2 (1808): 344-83

Markus, D.D., "Statius' Vatic Presence in the Thebaid," summary in AAPHA (1996)

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, 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.

Moisy, Sigrid von, Untersuchungen zur Erzahlweise in Statius' Thebais, Habelts Dissertationsdrucke / Reihe klassische Philologie 11 (Bonn, 1971)
• Reviews: Delarue, Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 47 (1973): 165; Marache, Revue des études latines 51 (1973): 419

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

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

Newlands, C.E., "Ecphrasis and Poetic Authority: Silvae 1.5," summary in AAPhA (1996): 21

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.

Newman, J.K., "De Statio epico animadversiones," Latomus 34 (1975): 80-9
• The poem is erudite and subtle.

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.

Pavlovskis, Z., Man in an Artificial Landscape: The Marvels of Imperial Roman Civilization, Mnemosyne Supplement 25 (1977)

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.

Plessis, Frédéric, La poésie latine (Paris: C. Klincksieck, 1909): 596-622

Reitz, Bettina, "Tantae molis erat: On Valuing Roman Imperial Architecture," pp. 315-44 of Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen, edd., Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity, Mnemosyne Supplement 350 (Leiden: Brill, 2012)
• Texts such as Vitruvius' De architectura and Silv. 1.1 and 3.1 may not provide evidence of how Romans actually viewed and valued architecture, but they were supposed to encourage Roman viewers to appreciate architecture in a particular way.

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.

Schetter, W., Untersuchungen zur epischen Kunst des Statius, Klass.-Philol. Studien 20 (Dissertation, Uni-Bonn, 1957) (Wiesbaden, 1960)
• Reviews: Gossage, Classical Review 11 (1961): 230-2; B. Kytzler, Gnomon 33 (1961): 169-73; Langerbeck, Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 92 (1964): 447-450; B.M. Marti, The American Journal of Philology 85 (1964): 85-88. See P. Venini, "Furor e psicologia nella Tebaide di Stazio," Athenaeum 42 (Mélanges Malcovati) (1964) 201-13; and P. Venini, "A proposito di alcuni recenti studi sulla composizione della Tebaide staziana," Athenaeum 46 (1968) 131-38.

Taisne, A.-M., "Temps historique et temps legendaire chez Stace," in R. Chevallier, ed., Aion: Le temps chez les Romains, Caesarodunum 10 bis (1976): 145-150

Taisne, A.-M., "Stace et la rhétorique," La rhétorique à Rome, Colloque des 10-11 Décembre 1977, Caesarodunum 14 bis (Paris, 1979): 115-28
• Position of S. in a poetic tradition where rhetoric, especially epideictic, plays a great role. Analysis of his personal evolution in his use of rhetoric. Statius is not dominated by rhetoric, but relies on his own ingenium.

Taisne, Anne-Marie, "Les bois sacrés dans la Thébaïde de Stace," in L'imaginaire religieux gréco-romain, ed. Jo&eum;l Thomas, Coll. études (Perpignan: Pr. Universitaires de Perpignan, 1994), 167-85
• Analysis of Theb. 4.419-33 and 6.90-117. While Statius follows literary conventions, the descriptions reflect the sense of the sacred that permeates the poem.

Venini, P., "Valerio Flacco e l'erudizione Apolloniana, Note stilistiche," Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo, Classe di Lettere, Scienze morali e storiche 105 (1971): 582-596
• Comparison of Valerius and Statius in their desire to follow artistic exigencies and satisfy popular taste.

Vessey, D.W.T.C., "Lucan, Statius, and the Baroque Epic," The Classical World 63 (1970): 232-4

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

Vessey, D.W.T., "Pierius menti calor incidit: Statius' epic style," Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.32.5 (1986): 2965-3019

Zweierlein, O., "Statius, Lucan, Curtius Rufus und das hellenistische Epos," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 131 (1988): 67-84
• On Theb. 1 and 11, Lucan 6, Curtius Rufus 9.5.

Description and Ecphrasis

Bek, L., "Antithesis: A Roman Attitude in the Concept of Architecture from Vitruvius to Pliny the Younger," in Ascani et al., edd., Studia Romana in hon. Paul Krarup (Odense: U. Pr., 1976): 154-66
• In Vitruvius, antithesis is limited to exterior elements. In Seneca, a confrontation between conditions. In Statius, art and nature are opposed. In Pliny, antithesis is a part of the description of architecture, not only in the case of buildings, but also of houses and gardens.

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

Cienfuegos García, Juan J., "La cueva del tiempo," Trivium: Anuario de estudios humanísticos 3 (1991) 29-48 with plate
• On late classical ephrasis, especially in Claudian, and how it uses and modifies Ovid and Statius.

Coleman, Kathleen M., "'Truth severe, by fairy fiction drest': Reality and the Roman Imagination," in History and Fiction: Six Essays Celebrating the Centenary of Sir Ronald Syme, ed. Miriam T. Griffin and Roger S.O. Tomlin (London: Grime & Selwood, 2005), 40-70
• On "Syme's concept of the 'coherence of fiction.' ... Examples from art, literature (especially Statius), and theater show that the blending of myth and reality was normal in the daily lives of ordinary Roman people. To impose a sharp distinction between the world of the Roman imagination and daily reality creates a dichotomy that is demonstrably false."

Cristobal, V., "Tempestades epicas," Cuadernos de investigación filológica 14 (1988): 125-48

Damsté, P.H., "Statius artis photographicae praenuntius," Mnemosyne (1925): 74
• Review: Schuster, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 212 (1927): 143

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."

Dufallo, Basil, The Captor's Image: Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
• Reviews: Elsner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013; Höschele, Sehepunkte 14 (2014); Pagán, Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société Canadienne des études Classiques 68 (2014) 189-191; Rijser, Mnemosyne Ser. 4 68 (2015) 860-864

Duncan, T.S., The Influence of Art on Description in the Poetry of Statius, Diss. Johns Hopkins Univ. (Baltimore: J. H. Furst, 1913)
•Reviews: Helvetia archaeologica 18: 152; Fairclough, Classical Philology (1915); Harder, WKPh (1915): 221; Lipsconsb, The Classical World 8: 167; Schuster, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 212 (1927): 136

Evans, E.C., "Literary Portraiture in Ancient Epic: A Study of the Descriptions of Physical Appearance in Classical Epic," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 58-59 (1948): 189-217

Fletcher, G.B.A., "Some Qualities of the Epic Poetry of Statius," Essays Presented to C.M. Girdlestone (Univ. of Durham 1960): 95-106
• Gives visual, auditory acuity, and creates atmospheres. His poetry, not being obscurities and exaggerations, reaches to the natural and the pathetic.

Foucher, Louis, "Stace et les images d'Achille," 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): 201-13

Giessler, G., Ad descriptionum historiam symbola (Leipzig: Weida, 1916): 2.34-58.
• On Statius' use of rhetorical tropes, especially ecphrasis.
• Review: Schuster, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 212 (1927): 136-7

Goguey, D., "Le paysage dans les Silves de Stace: Conventions poetique et observations realiste," Latomus 41 (1982): 602-613

Haynes, Melissa, "Written in Stone: Literary Representations of the Statue in the Roman Empire," PhD Dissertation (Harvard University, 2009)
• Summary in ProQuest dissertations database, ID 304891112; Discussion of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Favorinus' Corinthian oration, Propertius 4.2, Silv. 1.1 and 4.6, Petronius 126-132, and a fictional letter of Alciphron.

Heinen, Dustin, "Poetics of Elision in the Silvae," Illinois Classical Studies 38 (2013) 159-185
• "Lengthy descriptions in Statius's Silvae evolved from, but stand in unique contrast with, earlier examples found in epic and epigrammatic poems. Statius's poetics of elision - the practice of gapping or suppressing visual information in favor of verbal description or emotional response - is a means through which Statius propagates Flavian cultural and political ideology. Statius's focus on vivid descriptions and artistic representation in his ekphrastic works is crucial to the success of these poems" (from LAPH).

Koster, Severin, "... des Springquells flüssige Säule: Beschreibungen des elegischen Distichons," Gymnasium 114.4 (2007): 337-55
• The influence of descriptions in Horace, Propertius, Ovid, and Statius on the Weimar poets.

Leite, Leni Ribeiro, "Arquitetura de uma poética nova: Estácio, Silvae, 3.1," Phaos: Revista de Estudos Clássicos 12 (2012) 29-44
• Silv. 3.1, Statius describes the dedication of a temple of Hercules in Sorrento. The new temple is sung in a new way by a poet who, writing a work that is characterized by the mixture of genres, has been identified by recent criticism as an icon of a literary and cultural change carried out during the Flavian era. A reading of 3.1 is offered as the celebration not only of the Temple of Hercules but also of the new imperial poetics.

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."

Marshall, Adam R., "Spectandi Voluptas: Ecphrasis and Poetic Immortality in Statius' Silvae 1.1," Classical Journal 106.3 (2011): 321-47
• Statius is concerned to define his own position in the traditions of ecphrasis. The poem may be read as the first in a series of moments in the Silvae where Statius explores the relationship between poetry and the visual arts.

Newlands, C.E., "Ecphrasis and Poetic Authority: Silvae 1.5," summary in AAPhA (1996): 21

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

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

Reitz, Bettina, "Tantae molis erat: On Valuing Roman Imperial Architecture," pp. 315-44 of Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen, edd., Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity, Mnemosyne Supplement 350 (Leiden, 2012)
• Vitruvius' De architectura and Silv. 1.1 and 3.1 were supposed to encourage Roman viewers to appreciate architecture in a particular way and may not provide evidence of how Romans actually viewed and valued architecture.

Taisne, A.-M., "'Position' de thèse de 3e cycle... sur L'oeuvre de Stace et ses rapports avec l'art'," Caesarodunum 9 (1974): 285-88

Taisne, A.-M., "L'art d'être aimée... ou Une toilette de mariée sous Domitien," Caesarodunum 9 (1974): 110-21
• Analysis of Silv. 1.2.110-129, where Statius obeys a double tradition, both the Hellenistic and the Roman Venus. He follows technique of painters.

Taisne, A.-M., "Virgile, Virgile, modèle de Stace peintre animalier," Presence de Virgile Actes du Colloque des 9, 11 & 12 decembre 1976, publ. Chevallier, R., Caesarodunum 13 bis, Paris: les Belles lettres (1978): 105-131
• Beside their local sensibilities, Statius and Virgil were similarly influenced by Greek poets, the Iliad, the tragedians and the Alexandrians.

Taisne, Anne-Marie, "Descriptions d'œuvre d'art chez Stace," Mélanges offerts à Raymond Chevallier, vol. 1, Présence des idées romaines dans le monde d'aujourd'hui, Charles-Marie Ternes, Robert Bedon, and Paul Marius Martin, Caesarodunum Bis 28, Bulletin des antiquités luxembourgeoises 23 (Luxembourg: Société des antiquités nationales, 1994), 353-68
• Statius' originality in ecphrasis of real, imaginary, and latent art. Discussion of Silvae 4.6, Theb. 12.665-76, and Ach. 1.852-88.

Taisne, A.-M., L'esthétique de Stace: La peinture des correspondances (Paris, 1994)
• Reviews: Hershkowitz, Journal of Roman Studies 85 (1995): 328; S. Koster, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 49 (1996): 83-4; P.-J. Dehon, L'Antiquité classique 65 (1996): 338-39; A.M. Keith, The American Journal of Philology 117 (1996): 159-61; D.E. Hill, Classical Review n.s. 46 (1996): 31-32; G.W.M. Harrison, The Classical World 90 (1996-97): 466-67; J. Filée, Les Études Classiques 65 (1997): 271; A. Wartelle, Revue des études grecques 109 (1996): 324; Coleman, Gnomon 71.4 (1999): 318-22

Aspects of Statius' Latin

Coffee, Neil, and James Gawley, "How Rare are the Words that Make Up Intertexts? A Study in Latin and Greek Epic Poetry," 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), 409-420

Deferrari, R.-J., and Eagan, M.C., A Concordance of Statius. Brookland, D.C. 1943 (Hildesheim, 1966).
•Review: Cooke, Classical Philology (1946): 114-8.

Fletcher, G.B.A., "Matters of Sound in Greek and Latin Authors," Classical Review 52 (1938): 164-5

Frère, H., "Le témoinage de Stace sur la sfairomacía," in Mélanges de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes offerts à A. Ernout (Paris: Klincksieck, 1940): 141-158
• Study of the vocabulary used to describe the contest.

Galán Sánchez, Pedro Juan, "El tópico del sobrepujamiento en Estacio," Cuadernos de filología clásica, Estudios latinos 16 (1999): 163-74
• Analysis of Statius' use of linguistic formulae, including comparatives, and variants.

Galán Sánchez, Pedro Juan, "El tópico del 'sobrepujamiento' en Estacio," Cuadernos de Filología Clásica: Estudios Latinos 16 (1999) 163-174
• Analysis of Statius' linguistic and stylistic patterns.

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

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).

Guggenheimer, E.H., Patterns of Sound Repetition in Classical Latin Poetry, diss. U. Minnesota at Minneapolis 1967
• Summary in Dissertation Abstracts International 28 (1967): 1063A.

Hahn, Hermann, Quaestionum Statianarum part. I. Diss. inaug. (Breslau, 1872)
• On the Breslau manuscript of the Silvae.

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

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).

Imhof, Albert, Emendata quaedam et observata in Statii Silvis, Programm (Halle, 1867): 1-11
• On Statius' latinization of Greek words. Emendations to Silv. 1.6.9-16 and 5.3.219-24.

Keith, Alison M., "Etymological Wordplay in Flavian Epic," in Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 13: Hellenistic Greek and Augustan Latin Poetry, Flavian and Post-Flavian Latin Poetry, Greek and Roman Prose, ed. Francis Cairns, Sandra Cairns, and Frederick Williams, ARCA: Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 48 ( Cambridge: Cairns, 2008, 231-53
• Etymological wordplay in the Argonautica and theThebaid are sophistically deployed for local and broader structural effects.

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.

Klecka, J., A Concordance to Statius, Dissertation, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977
• Summary in DAI 38: (1977) 3441A

Klecka, J. Concordantia in Publium Papinium Statium, Alpha-Omega R.A. 57 (Hildesheim, 1983)

Klotz, Christian Adolph, "Animadversiones in P. Papinii Statii Thebaida," Miscellanea critica (Utrecht, 1763), 58-99
• Discussion of difficulty in understanding the Thebaid and extensive emendations to all 12 books.

Laguna Mariscal, Gabriel, "El otro griego en la Roma flavia: Estacio y Juvenal," in A. Cruz Casado and M. Raders, edd. Estudios de Literatura General y Comparada. Literatura y alianza de civilizaciones. Prólogo y paratexto. Bohemios, raros y olvidados (Lucena (Córdoba): Ayuntamiento de Lucena, 2009): 45-62

Lochmann, Johann Melchior, Professoris Eloquentiae Et Graecae Linguae Munus In Illustri Gymnasio Coburgensi Academico Auspicaturus Pauca Ad Defendendum Et Emendandum P. Papin. Statium Praefatur (Coburg, 1774)
• A defense of Statius against deprecators from Joseph Scaliger to Barth. A discussion of Juvenal 7.82-87 and Statius' success. A defense of his encomia and of his style. A lengthy discussion of Silv. 3.2.20 ("exploret rupes gravis ante molybdis").

Lohr, Frid., De infinitivi apud P. Papinium Statium et Iuvenalem usu, Diss. inaug. (Marburg, 1876)

MacKay, L.A., "The Vocabulary of Fear in Latin Epic Poetry," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 92 (1961): 308-316

Morel, Fréderic the Younger, In Papinii Surculi Statii Sylvas (Paris, 1601)
• On Statius' language, style, and meter.

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.

Österberg, P.I., De structura verborum cum praepositionibus compositorum quae exstant apud C. Valerium Flaccum, P. Papinium Statium, M. Valerium Martialem, commentatio academica (diss. Uppsala) (Stockholm, 1883)
• Link

Schamberger, M., De P. Papinio Statio verborum novatore, Dissertationes Philologicae Halenses, 17.3 (Halle, 1907)
• On Statius' use of new words and hapax legomena. Available here.

Serrao, M., "Influenze lessicali di Lucrezio sull' opera epica di Stazio," Anazetesis 6-7 (1982): 18-23

Speranza, F., "Neologismi nelle Selve di Publio Papinio Stazio," Atti Acad. Pontaniana n.s. 6 (1956): 35-56
• Richness of S's word inventions and usages.

Stange, O. and P. Dittrich, Vox Latina, II (Leipzig, 1925): 82-87
• Discussion of Silv.1.1, 4.9, 5.4; Theb. 9.403-419, 524 ff., 552-573; Ach. 1.159-173, 852 ff.

Wacht, M., Concordantia in Statium (Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2000)

Weber, C., "The Diction of Death in Latin Epic," Agon 3 (1969): 45-68
• Single words and periphrases for kill in Ennius, Virgil, Lucan and Statius.

Williams, R.D., "The Local Ablative in Statius," Classical Quarterly 45 (1951): 143-46
• Examination of the uses of the ablative in Theb. 1.406, 624; 9.872-3; 11.639-40; 5.387-8; 9.535-6; Ach. 1.43-5; Silv. 1.2.109-10; Theb. 1.532; 11.62-4; and Ach. 1.329.

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.

Style

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

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

Bonadeo, Alessia, "Torvus: Valenze poetiche e metapoetiche di un lessema in Stazio," Athenaeum 99.1 (2011): 81-101
• An analysis of related passages shows that Silv. 5.3.63 (toruo... Maroni) is an allusion to epic as opposed to occasional poetry. This is an example of Statius' emulative dynamic.

Bonadeo, Alessia, "A Iove principium (Silv. 1, praef. 19): Stazio si presenta," Latomus: Revue d'études Latines 75 (2016) 943-959
• An examination of how the narrator presents himself, his poetic style, and his work. Includes a discussion of the origins of the formula a Iove principium and its usage in Statius.

Delarue, Fernand, "Titre(s): D'Homère à Stace, le combat contre le fleuve," Lalies: Actes des sessions de linguistique et de littérature 30, La Baume, 24-28 août 2009 (Paris: Éd. Rue d'Ulm, 2010): 233-41
• Statius' adaptation of Iliad 21 (Th. 9.225-569) shows the aesthetic of Statius' period, creating a phantasia or imaginary description that puts the impossible "before the eyes" of the reader.

Georgacopoulou, Sophia A., "Technique narrative et voix du narrateur: L'apostrophe dans la Thébaïde de Stace," PhD Dissertation (Université de Paris IV, 1994)

Gibson, Bruce John, "The Repetitions of Hypsipyle," in Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality, ed. Monica R. Gale and Ray J. Clare (Swansea, Oakville (CT): Classical Press Of Wales, 2004), 149-180
• "The Hypsipyle episode in the Thebaid involves Statius in elaborate self-positioning in and against the background of literary history, conducted in part through the presentation of Hypsipyle herself as an epic narrator."

Hahn, Hermann, Quaestionum Statianarum part. I. Diss. inaug. (Breslau, 1872)
• On the Breslau manuscript of the Silvae.

Hardie, Philip R., "Lucretian Multiple Explanations and Their Reception in Latin Didactic and Epic," in Marco Beretta and Francesco Citti, edd., Lucrezio, la natura e la scienza, Biblioteca di Nuncius 66 (Firenze: Olschki, 2008): 69-96
• Lucretius' tendency to give multiple alternative explanations affected later epics, including Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Statius.

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

Madvig, J.N., Adversaria critica ad scriptores Graecos et Latinos, 2 vols. (Hauniae: Gyldendal [Leipzig: T.O. Weigel], 1871): 1:149, 2:152-61
• On Silv. 2.6.64; Statius' unconvential style. Discussions of Theb. 1.22, 268 (read "a quo"), 631 ("intendit"); 2.235 ("pavores"), 252 ("per orbem"), 431 ("aulis"), 475 ("lassavit"), 559 ("dena"), 607 ("valens"), 672 ("mulcatum"); 3.101 ("contemptim regi"); 4.698 ("sinus ... Exaruit"). Silv. 1.3.23 ("et alentes"), 1.3.43 ("suspensa"), 1.3.49 ("digitos"), 1.3.90 ("nulli"), 1.6.24 ("serena"); 2.1.56 ("amatus"), 2.2.137 ("patriaeque errore"), 2.3.71 ("promere"), 2.6.6 ("acres tamen et"), 2.6.50 ("dolentem"), 2.6.82-3 ("saepius atro ... Sibi"), 2.7.58 ("(ingratus Nero!)"), 2.7.131 ("mortis"); 2.pr.22 ("acceptum est. Cludit"); 3.pr.4 ("exposcas"); 4.pr.12 ("sed mihi citra"), 4.pr.34 ("defende, sed, si ... Si nimis reprehendemur").

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

Morel, Fréderic the Younger, In Papinii Surculi Statii Sylvas (Paris, 1601)
• On Statius' language, style, and meter.

Mulligan, Bret, "Sacer Argus: Bilingual Wordplay in Statius Silvae 5.4.11-13," Mnemosyne 64.3 (2011): 471-80
• Sacer is to be read in both its Latin and Greek contexts.

Ripoll, François, "En attendant Achille (Stace, Achilleacute;ide, 1.467-513): Enjeux dramatiques, éthiques et politiques d'une scegrave;ne de transition," Dictynna: Revue de poétique latine 16 (2019), unpaginated
• The scene at Aulis (1.467-513) presents a neo-Iliadic esthetic that differs from the elegiac and Alexandrian nature of the rest of the poem. It also provides a deescalation of the drama in the poem and, through literary references, compares Homeric society with contemporary Rome.

Serrao, Manuela, "Il tropo dell'iperbole nell'opera epica di Stazio," in Aspetti di stile e di aemulatio fra Plauto e Stazio con appendice dantesca (Florence: [s. n.], 2009), 127-81

Van den Broek, Pieter, "The Narrative of Adrastus in Statius' Thebaid as a Case Study of Intratextual Poetics," Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 56 (2016) 43-63
• Adrastus' narrative (Theb. 1.577-668) is full of repetitions of words and is echoed in later parts of the epic, especially in the Nemean episode (Books 4-6). The repetitions of words emphasize motifs that play an important role in the poem and combine characters, events, motifs and episodes. This intratextuality leads to the impression of uniformity, discontinuity, or ambiguity.

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

Recusatio

Baptista, Natan, and Leni Leite, "Recusatio e encômio a Domiciano nos proêmios épicos de Estácio (Theb. 1.1-45; Ach. 1.1-19) - Recusatio and Praise to Domitian in Statius' Epic Proemia (Theb. 1.1-45; Ach. 1.1-19)," Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate 21 (2019) 117-35
• "The proemia to Statius' epic poems are analyzed as dedications to Domitian. The proemia are central to these works since it is through them that Statius builds the ideal motif underlying the imperial praise and the justification of his choice of mythological themes. Through the use of the concepts of ethos and scenography, from French Discourse Analysis, the poet's excusatio, as it appears in the poems, contributed to determine his poetic place and to shape his ethos as a poet-client." Includes Portuguese translations of several passages.

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).

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.

Nauta, Ruurd Robijn, "The recusatio in Flavian Poetry," in Flavian Poetry, ed. Ruurd Robijn Nauta, Harm-Jan Van Dam, and Johannes Jacobus Louis Smolenaars, Mnemosyne Supplement 270 (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 21-40
• "Comparison is made to the use of recusatio by Callimachus and the Augustan poets with Flavian poets such as Valerius Flaccus, Statius, and Martial. Recusatio was still widely used in Flavian poetry to highlight the poet's choices in terms of style, theme, and genre ; and his attitude toward the emperor."

Penwill, John, "Imperial encomia in Flavian Epic," in Gesine Manuwald and Astrid Voigt, eds., Flavian Epic Interactions (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), 29-54
• The encomia and recusationes in Flavian epics must be read in the context of Lucan. Theb. 1.16-34 is ironic and emphasizes the inability of rulers to learn from history (cf. 11.656-57). Ach. 14-19 is also ironical and emphasizes Achilles as a stand-in for Domitian.

Verse

Banos Banos, J.M., "El Versus aureus de Ennio a Estacio," Latomus 51.4 (1992): 762-74

Brass, E.J., Quaestiones Statianae metricae et prosodicae, Diss. Rostock, 1923

[Cancik-Lindemaier, Hildegard], Arbeitsgruppe fur lateinische Metrik und Stilistik, Tübingen, "Zur elision anapaestischer Worter bei Vergil und Statius," Glotta 50 (1972): 97-120

Charlet, Jean-Louis, "L'hexamètre de Dracontius dans les Romulea," Vox Latina 191-192 (2015) 143-153
• A metrical comparison of Dracontius' Romulea shows that he used a verse structure closer to that of Statius and Valerius Flaccus than Virgil and Ovid.

Charlet, Jean-Louis, "L'hexamètre de Corippe dans la Johannide et dans le Panégyrique de Justin II," in Corippe: Un poète latin entre deux mondes, ed. Benjamin Goldlust, Collection Études et Recherches sur l'Occident Romain 50 (Paris: De Boccard, 2015), 337-346
• On Corippus' use of hexameters in comparison with Virgil, Statius, Claudian, and Prudentius.

Dilke, O.A.W., "The Metrical Treatment of Proper Names in Statius," Classical Review (1949): 50-1
• Statius adopts a different scansion from that of his predecessors.

Flammini, Giuseppe, "La strofe alcaica dopo Orazio," Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia della Università di Macerata 40-41 (2007-2008) 39-59
• Use of the Alcaic strophe in Statius, Prudentius, and Claudian.

Frank, E., "Struttura dell'esametro di Stazio," Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo, Classe di Lettere, Scienze morali e storiche 102 (1968): 396-408
• Statius' meter differs from Virgil's in that S. has more rapidity (more dactyls, more elisions) and more homodyns of 4 feet. Moreover, S. lets his phrases continue across verses. S. resembles Virgil in his varietas.The Silvae are different: they have a less great variety of pauses and a greater rapidity (through elisions). See P. Venini, "A proposito di alcuni recenti studi sulla composizione della Tebaide staziana," Athenaeum 46 (1968) 131-38.

Hellegouarc'h, J., "Les yeux de la marquise... Quelques observations sur les commutations verbales dans l'hexametre latin," Revue des études latines 65 (1987): 261-81
• On Catullus 64, Lucan 1, Aen. 4, Theb. 1.

Heslin, Peter J., "The Scansion of 'Pharsalia' (Catullus 64.37; Statius, Achilleid 1.152; Calpurnius Siculus 4.101)," Classical Quarterly n.s. 47 (1997): 588-93
• Catullus followed the Alexandrian mannerism of repeating a word in the same line with two different metrical values at 64.37 (Pharsaliam; Pharsalia). The same use of "Pharsalia"with a short second "a" found in Calpurnius Siculus 4.101 is simply unmetrical and needs emendation, but Statius' use of the form at Ach. 1.152 offers an intertextual reference to Catullus and so confirms the unusual scansion.

Kollmann, E.D., "Zum Enjambment in der lateinischen Hexameterdichtung," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 125 (1982): 117-134
• Analysis of enjambment in Theb. 1

Morel, Fréderic the Younger, In Papinii Surculi Statii Sylvas (Paris, 1601)
• On Statius' language, style, and meter.

Ott, W., Metrische Analysen zu Statius Thebais Buch 1, Materialen zu Metrik und Stilistik 5 (Tübingen, 1973)

Schubert, H., De Statii artis grammaticae et metricae ratione, Dissertation, Griefswald, 1913 (Griefswald: Adler, 1913)
• Review: Stegman, JPhV (1918): 79.

Trilli Pari, L., "Brevi note sull'epitalamio di Papinio Stazio ad Arrunzio Stella e su quello di Ennodio di Pavia a Massimo," Studi di poesia latina in onore de Antonio Traglia (Roma, 1979): 871-77
• A comparison of the two poems. Ends with a metrical analysis of both poems.

Vella, H.C.R., Repeats and Symmetrical Clusters of Metrical Patterns in the First Four Feet in Latin Silver Age Epic Poetry (Sliema, Malta: Aurora, 1987)

Waite, S.V.F., "Metrical Indices to Statius' Achilleid," Hephaistos 1 (1970): 28-70

Williams, R.D., "The scansion of deest in Statius," Summary in Proceedings of the Classical Association 48 (1951): 32

Statius' Treatment/Use of Myth

Aricò, G., "Sul mito di Lino e Corebo in Stat. Theb. 1.557-668," Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 38 (1960): 277-285
• Conclusions on the art of S, his criteria of choice of myth and processes of elaboration and narration.

Aricò, G., "Su alcuni aspetti del mito tebano nelle urne volterrane," ALGP 9-10 (1972-73): 106-110
• Interpretation of urns 2, 4 and 10 in light of the Thebaid.

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

Bocciolini Palagi, L., "Enea, Scipione e i fratelli siculi (a propositio di Stat. Silv. 3.3.188 ss.)," Maia 43 (1991): 199-207
• Statius shows the traditional approach to Aeneas and the Siculi in the Scipio episode, in that he uses them to display heroic pietas. His treatment is similar to that of Silius Italicus.

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.

Braun, W., Der Oedipus des Seneca in seinen Beziehungen zu den gleichnamigen Stücken des Sophocles und Euripides und zu Statius Thebais (Wesel[?], 1867)

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

Daumas, M., "L'amphore de Panaguriste et les sept contre Thebes," Antike Kunst 21 (1978): 23-31
• On Theb. 3.456-647.

Dominik, W.J., The Mythic Voice of Statius: Power and Politics in the Thebaid, Mnemosyne Supplementum 136 (Leiden, 1994)
• Reviews: S.T. Newmyer, CO 72 (1994-95): 143-144; P.R. Hardie, Classical Review 46 (1996): 27-28; G.W.M. Harrison, The Classical World 90 (1996-97): 466-467; R. Lesueur, Gnomon 70 (1998): 164-165; N.J.E. Austin, Prudentia 28 (1996): 49-51

Georgacopoulou, Sophia A., "Argia e il monile di Armonia secondo Stazio," La Parola del passato: Rivista di studi antichi 51 (1996): 345-350
• Statius focuses the legend of the necklace of Harmonia (Theb. 2.269-305) on Argia. The article discusses the narrative effects of the apostrophes to Argia and to Jocasta at the beginning and end of the passage.

Gostoli, A., "Edipo e i figli nel rilievo del frontone etrusco di Talamone e nella Tebaide di Stazio," AION (archaeol.) 5 (1983): 65-76
• A second century BC relief and Statius' description suggest there was an ancient myth that Oedipus was on the battle-field.

Heerink, Mark, "Valerius Flaccus and Statius," chapter 4 of Echoing Hylas: A Study in Hellenistic and Roman Metapoetics, Wisconsin studies in classics (Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2015): 113-153
•An examination of the treatment of the Hylas myth in Hellenistic and Roman poetry from a metapoetic perspective. Statius "treats the Hylas myth in a short passage of just four lines [5.441-44] that... Function as a mise-en-abyme of the construction of the Thebaid itself," according to Harden. • Review: Harden, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.12

Heslin, Peter, "Statius' Treatment of Mythology in the Achilleid," Dissertation, Dublin (Trinity College)/Harvard U., 1999

Iglesias Montiel, R.M., "Estudio mitográfico de la 'Tebaida' de Estacio," diss. Universidad Murcia, 1974

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.

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.

Legras, Léon, Les légendes thebaines en Grèce et à Rome: Étude sur la Thébaïde de Stace (Paris, 1905)

Moya del Bano, F., "Helena convertida en estrella? A proposito de dos pasajes de estacio," Melanges F. Rodriguez Adrados 2 (1987): 659-677
• A study of Helen in Silv. 3.2.8-12 and Theb. 7.791-93.

Olivi, M.-C., "Amphiaraos: un exemple de réécriture d'un personnage mythique dans la Thébaide," 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): 135-44

Roberts, M., "The Use of Myth in Late Latin Epithalamia from Statius to Venantius Fortunatus," Transactions of the American Philological Association 119 (1989): 321-348
• In S., myth is a decorative element detached from systems of belief.

Roberts, Michael, "The Use of Myth in Latin Epithalamia from Statius to Venantius Fortunatus," Transactions of the American Philological Association 119 (1989): 321-48

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

Schetter, W., "Medea in Theben," Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft N.F. 6a (1980): 209-221
• Theb. 2.65 (ventum erat ad Thebas) is reused identically by Drac. Romul. 10.366, who modifies in this way the myth of Medea, arriving with Jason not in Corinth but in Thebes. This allusion to Statius has the function of a signal to the audience: the Medea of Dracontius has to be seen and understood within the framework of the dark and furious world of the Thebaid.

Smith, R. Scott, "Mythographical and Literary Notes on the Catalogs of Argive and Theban Allies in Statius' Thebaid," Mnemosyne 70.2 (2017) 240-61

Solano Solano, María Dolores, "Tratamiento mitológico y suasoriae en Estacio, Silv. I 2.65-102 y I 4.61-105," in José Francisco González Castro, Antonio Alvar Ezquerra, Alberto Bernabé, et al., Actas del XI congreso español de estudios clásicos: (Santiago de Compostela, del 15 al 20 de septiembre de 2003) 2 (Madrid: Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos, 2005): 953-59
• On the suasoria in Silv. 1.2.65-102 and 1.4.61-105 and the role of myth.

Szelest, H. "Mythologie und ihre Rolle in den Silvae des Statius," Eos 60 (1972): 309-317
• Often, myth is cited only by allusion or paraphrase; often, especially with local divinities, he gives details unknown elsewhere. He is also the first Roman poet to give divinities an active role at all levels of a poem.

Taisne, A.-M., "Le role du serpent dans la mythologie de Stace," Caesarodunum 7 (1972): 357-380

Thordarson, F., "Die Ferse des Achilleus: Ein skythisches Motif?" Symbolae Osloenses, auspiciis Societatis Graeco-Latine 47 (1972): 109-124
• In the myth of Achilles' heel, Statius uses elements from Iranian, Germanic, Celtic, Siberian, and Indian sources.

Venini, P., "Ancora sull'imitazione senecana e lucanea nella Tebaide di Stazio," Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 95 (1967): 418-427
• They determine some of the fundamental motifs of the Theb. and in Statius' view of myth.

Verstraete, B.C., "Originality and Mannerism in Statius' Use of Myth in the Silvae," L'Antiquité Classique 52 (1983): 195-205
• Statius adds details and emotion to myths when he constructs a narrative or when he discusses ideals and achievements.

Vessey, D.W.T.C., "The Significance of the Myth of Linus and Coroebus in Statius' Thebaid, I,557-672," The American Journal of Philology 91 (1970): 315-331

Philosophy

André, Jean-Marie, "Stace témoin de l'Epicurisme campanien," in Gabriele Giannantoni and Marcello Gigante, edd., Epicureismo Greco e Romano: Atti del Congresso Internazionale Napoli, 19-26 Maggio 1993, 3 vols., Elenchos: Collana di Testi e Studi sul Pensiero Antico, 25 (Napoli: Bibliopolis, 1996), 2.909-928

Aricò, G., "Adflato monte sepultum," BStudLat 2 (1972): 158-61
• Silv. 5.3.104 ff. alludes to the stoic-peripatetic explanation that movements of air within the earth cause earthquakes and volcanoes.

Billerbeck, M., "Aspects of Stoicism in Flavian epic," Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar 5 (1986): 341-56
•On stoicism in Silius Italicus, Statius' Thebaid, and Valerius Flaccus.

Billerbeck, M., "Stoizismus in der römischen Epik neronischer und flavischer Zeit," Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.32.5 (1986): 3116-3151

Dominik, W.J., "A Generic-Ontological Reading of Adrastus' Sminthiac Prayer (Statius, Thebaid 1.696-720)," Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity 1 (1992): 66-78
• Understanding of the Sminthiac hymn through the topoi prescribed by the rhetor Menander, De gen. dem. 17. Statius is indebted to the Sminthiac prescription, and references thereto tie the hymn in well with the Thebaid as a whole.

Laguna Mariscal, Gabriel, "Philosophical Topics in Statius' Silvae: Sources and Aims, " 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): 247-59

Lotito, G., "Il tipo etico del liberto funzionario di corte (Stazio, Silvae 3 & 5.1)," DArch 8 (1974-75): 275-383
• On Seneca's consolation to Polybius and Statius' Silvae, with an eye toward neo-stoicism and the role of the poet in a society in which the emperor is a god.

Martinez, R. L., Dante, Statius, and the Earthly City, Dissertation, U. California Santa Cruz, 1977. Summary in Dissertation Abstracts 38 (1978): 6707a-6708a.

Schoenberger, O., "Zum Weltbild der drei Epiker nach Lukan," Helikon 5 (1965): 123-145
• After Lucan, VF recalled a more traditional vision, but he also saw the world as accompanied by a paralyzing melancholy. In the Theb., poetry and aesthetic concerns don't obliterate the horror: the end is good only in appearance. Silius Italicus is pessimist, classicist, and reactionary, and is not especially religious.

Politics and Society

Ahl, F. M., "The Rider and the Horse: Politics and Power from Horace to Statius," Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.32.1 (1984): 40-124

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, Antony, "Burial and Lament in Flavian Epic: Mothers, Fathers, Children," in Nikoletta Manioti, ed., Family in Flavian Epic, Mnemosyne suppl. 394 (Leiden, 2016)
• Study of female lament in Flavian poems and male lament in Thebaid, "arguing that whereas female lament undermines society's structures, male lament confirms them" (from Davis' review). •Review: Davis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.03.04

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.

Benker, Margit, "Achill und Domitian: Herrscherkritik in der Achilleis des Statius," PhD Diss. (Erlangen-Nürnburg, 1987)
• Reviews: F. d'Esperey, Revue des études latines 55 (1987): 335-36; M. Dewar, Classical Review 38 (1988): 252-53

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.

Burck, E., "Die Vorbereitung des taciteischen Menschen- und Herrscherbildes in der Dichtung der fruhen romischen Kaiserzeit," in G. Radke, ed., Politik und literarische Kunst im Werk des Tacitus, AU Beiheft 14 (Stuttgart: Klett, 1971): 37-60

Caiani, L., "Presenza di Drance nella Thebaide di Stazio," Maia 41 (1989): 235-40
• Using items from the episode of Drances and Turnus (Aen. 11.343-375), Statius constructs episodes of dissidence (1.171 ff., 3.92-3, 3.216, 10.580-3). Drances suggests feelings hostile to tyranny.

Chinn, Christopher M., "Libertas reverentiam remisit: Politics and Metaphor in Statius Silvae 1.6," The American Journal of Philology 129.1 (2008): 101-24
• Silv. 1.6 reenacts the political contestation over the meaning of libertas at Rome.

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.

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.

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.

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., "Monarchal Power and Imperial Politics in Statius' Thebaid," Ramus 18 (1989): 74-97
• Monarchy is shown negatively: the violation of justice and abuse of power may apply to contemporary political situation.

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

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, Sylvie, "Nuda potestas armauit fratres: Le paradoxe du pouvoir et du conflit dans la Thébaïde de Stace," in Fondements et crises du pouvoir, ed. Sylvie Franchet d'Espèrey, Études 9 (Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2003), 109-17
• On Theb. 1.150.

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.

Garthwaite, John, Domitian and the Court Poets Martial and Statius, Dissertation, Cornell Univ., 1978
• Summary in Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1979): 4224A

Garthwaite, John, "Statius' Retirement from Rome: Silvae 3.5," Antichthon: Journal of the Australian Society for Classical Studies 23 (1989): 81-91
• Statius may have been ill, but a more likely reason was the Capitoline defeat (likely in summer of 94) and his blaming the loss on the emperor.

Geyssen, John W., "Statius and the Tradition of Imperial Panegyric: A Literary Commentary on Silvae 1.1," PhD Dissertation, Duke, 1992
• Summary in Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992-93): 4308A.

Geyssen, John W., Imperial Panegyric in Statius: A Literary Commentary on Silvae 1.1, Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature 24 (Bern/Frankfurt am Main, 1996).
• Reviews: M. Dewar, Échos du monde classique = Classical Views n.s. 16 (1997): 355-360; F. Spaltenstein, Museum Helveticum 54 (1997): 249-250; Vessey, Classical Review 49 (1999): 571-72; Maleuvre, Les Études Classiques 67.1 (1999): 101-102

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.

Hardie, A., Statius and the Silvae: Poets, Patrons, and Epideixis in the Greco-Roman World, ARCA, 9 (Liverpool, 1983)
• Reviews: Coleman, Classical Review 34 (1984): 190-92; Courtney Classical Philology 80 (1985): 371-74; H.-J. van Dam, Gnomon 60 (1988): 704-12

Kircher, K., "Domitians 'Ablehnung' der Domitius-Anrede (Statius, Silvae 1.6.81-86.)," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 120 (1977): 90-1
• Domitian would not be called dominus at a Saturnalia festival.

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

Markus, D.D., "Transfiguring Heroism: Nisus and Euryalus in Statius' Thebaid," Vergilius 43 (1997): 56-62
• With the suicide of Dymas, Statius translates the heroism of Vergil's Nisus and Euryalus into a contemporary paradigm, the ostentatious self-inflicted death. Statius does not call into question the moral standing of his heroes, who are innocent victims of fate.

Markus, D.D., "The Politics of Entertainment: Tradition and Romanization in Statius' Thebaid," Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1997
• Summary in Dissertation Abstracts International 58.5 (1997-98): 1693A

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

McCarter, Stephanie Ann, "Maior post otia virtus: Public and Orivate 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 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.

McGuire, D.T., "Textual Strategies and Political Suicide in Flavian Epic," Ramus 18 (1989): 21-45
• Valerius Flaccus 1.695-850, Theb. 3.38-112, and Silius Italicus 2.539-698 present suicide as a possible response to tyranny and domination; suggests that it was a topic of debate.

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

Newlands, Carole Elizabeth, "Sordida rura? Pastoral Dynamics in the Sphragis to Statius' Silvae," Trends in Classics 4.1 (2012) 111-31
• Forms of sordere in Silv. 3.5 (3.5.17 and 3.5.112) indicate a new direction in the contrast between city and land found in bucolic. The word implies moral and social concepts that Statius uses to reflect Virgil, Propertius, and perhaps Calpurnius Siculus to show Rome as ugly and unfriendly while Naples is the proper place for a husband and poet. Statius also modernized Virgilian bucolic and brings is back to Naples and puts the villa in the center.

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

Römer, Franz, "Mode und Methode in der Deutung panegyrischer Dichtung der nachaugusteischen Zeit," Hermes: Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie 122 (1994) 95-113
• Based on Martial and Statius, it is difficult to tell whether each individual praise of the emperor is meant seriously or with irony.

Rosati, Gianpiero, "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, "Amare il tiranno: Creazione del consenso e linguaggio encomiastico nella cultura flavia," pp. 265-80 of Gianpaolo Urso, ed., Dicere laudes: Elogio, comunicazione, creazione del consenso: Atti del convegno internazionale, Cividale del Friuli, 23-25 settembre 2010, I convegni della Fondazione Niccolò Canussio 10 (Pisa: ETS, 2011)
• A reconsideration of Statius' and Martial's relationship with the political powers. The two saw themselves as official interpreters of current trends and provided the people with an idealized view of the emperor.
• Review: Sannicandro Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.08.11

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

Sanna, Lorenzo, "Ignis, accendo, incendo: Il lussuoso sfarzo del puer nella poesia flavia," Acme: Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli Studi di Milano 57 (2004) 287-295
• On the puer delicatus, especially in Statius and Valerius Flaccus.

Schilp, J., Die politischen Ideen der domitianischen Zeit gesehen aus den Werken der zeitgenössischen Dichter Martial, Statius, Silius Italicus, Dissertation, Uni-Marburg, 1947

Thiele, G., "Die Poesie unter Domitian," Hermes 51 (1916): 233-60
• Review: Schuster, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 212 (1927): 139-41.

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."

Verstraete, B.C., "Panegyric and Candor in Statius, Silvae 3.4," in C. Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature 5, Collection Latomus 206 (1989): 405-413

Vessey, D.W.T., "Mediis discumbere in astris," L'Antiquité classique 52 (1983): 206-220
• Literary and historical analysis of Silvae 4.2. Imperial ideology of Domitian.

Voigt, Astrid, "The Intertextual Matrix of Statius' Thebaid 11.315-23," Dictynna: Revue de Poétique Latine 12 (2015)
• In Theb. 11.315-323, Statius uses several other passages (esp. Hom. Il. 22.437-476, Verg. Aen. 9.473-480, Theb. 4.562 and 569, Sen. Phoen. 363-367) to depict Jocasta as a pious, grieving, Theban, Roman, and epic mother.

Psychology

Aricò, G., "Adrasto e la guerra tebano (mondo spirituale staziano e caratterizzazzione psicologica)," ALGP 7-8 (1970-71): 115-131
• In this troubled universe, dominated by nefas, the pietas is that of the individual. In Vergil, the gods were the guaranty of justice.

Burgess, J.F., "Statius' Altar of Mercy," Classical Quarterly 22 (1972): 339-349
• Emphasis on clementia in Th.12 results from the contemporary political situation. While the poem deals with man as tragic victim, the Ara Clementiae is a source of consolation. In contrast to traditional usage, clementia is not defined as the perogative of an injured party, but can be offered by a disinterested third person.

Dominik, William J., "Ratio et dei: Psychology and the Supernatural in the Lemnian Episode," in Carl Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 8, Collection Latomus 239 (Bruxelles: Latomus, 1997): 29-50
• Reviews: Chevallier, Revue des études latines 76 (1998): 459-460; Rochette, L'Antiquité classique 68 (1999): 390-91; Lamour, RBPh 78.1 (2000): 224-26

Fantham, E., "'Envy and Fear the Begetter of Hate': Statius' Thebaid and the Genesis of Hatred," in S. Morton Braund and C. Gill, edd., The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature (Cambridge, 1997): 185-212

Guipponi-Gineste, Marie-France, "Cauchemars de femmes dans l'épopée latine: Atalante, Thétis et Cérès chez Stace et Claudien," in Jean-Marie Husser et Alice Mouton, edd., Le cauchemar dans les sociétés antiques: Actes des journées d'étude de l'UMR 7044, 15-16 novembre 2007, Strasbourg, Études d'archéologie et d'histoire ancienne - Université des Sciences humaines de Strasbourg (Paris: de Boccard, 2010): 93-109
• The nightmares of Atalanta (Th. 9.570-637), Thetis (Ach. 1.127-140), and Ceres (Claudien, De raptu 3.67-116) result from the preoccupations of the dreamer. These suggest that nightmares result from negative emotions and feelings of shame in the dreamer. Includes a study of the terms associated with nightmares.

Hershkowitz, D., The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius (Oxford, 1998)
• Reviews: Putnam, Journal of Roman Studies 89 (1999): 220; Zissos Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.08.07; Hardie, Classical Review 50.1 (2000): 109-11; Schenk, Gnomon 5 (2002): 387-90

MacKay, L.A., "The Vocabulary of Fear in Latin Epic Poetry," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 92 (1961): 308-316

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.

Mendelsohn, D., "Empty Nest, Abandoned Cave: Maternal Anxiety in Achilleid I," ClAnt 9 (1990): 295-308
• Parallel treatment of maternal and marital anxieties. The depiction of this uneasy heroine provides a foil for her son's relationship with Deidamia, which will again aggravate the tensions.

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

Venini, P., "Furor e psicologia nella Tebaide di Stazio," Athenaeum 42 (Mélanges Malcovati) (1964): 201-13
• Against W. Schetter, Untersuchungen zur epischen Kunst des Statius (1960).

Similes and Metaphores (cf. art)

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

Corti, R., "Due funzioni della similitudine nella Thebaide di Stazio," Maia 29 (1987): 3-23
• Similes reflect the model S. uses to depict an episode but are still an integral part of the text.

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.

Krause, K., De P. Papinii Statii comparationibus epicis, Diss. Inaug. (Halle, 1871)

Kytzler, B., "Gleichnisgruppen in der Thebais des Statius," Wiener Studien 75 (1962): 141-60
• Comparisons with bulls, beasts, sea, boats, and minor subjects shows that Statius has a desire to create new images.

Luque Lozano, Antonio, "Los símiles en la Tebaida de Estacio," Habis 17 (1986): 165-84
• There are 202 similes, often for concluding a scene.typical images except with mythological subject matter. List of images and objects, organized by book.

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.

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

Obrycki, K., "De comparationibus eorumque momento in Statii Thebaide," [in Polish; summary in Latin] Meander 30 (1975): 353-63
• Use of comparisons from myth, navigation, animals, and nature to deck out his narrative and to better expose the principal action of the Thebaid.

Perkins, J., "An Aspect of Latin Comparison Construction," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 104 (1974): 261-77
• Epic poets make extensive use of verbal links between poetic comparisons and surrounding narrative. This may be an exact verbal repetition or a synonym. Valerius Flaccus and S. make a particular effort to link the comparison with context. Ovid does not use repetition as often as Statius. 71 of the 79 extended similes in the Aeneid have such a link.

Sturt, N.J.H., "Four Sexual Similes in Statius," Latomus 41 (1982): 833-840
• On Theb. 10.646-649; and Ach. 1.615-618, 758-760, and 839-840.

Wilson, H.L., The Metaphor in the Epic Poems of Publius Papinius Statius (Baltimore, 1898)

Narrative, Speeches, and Rhetoric

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

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).

Dominik, W.J., Speech and Rhetoric in Statius' Thebaid, Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien, Band 27 (Hildesheim, 1994)
•Reviews: M. Dewar, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 94.9.8; Hershkowitz, Journal of Roman Studies 85 (1995): 328; Newmyer, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1995.04.06; P. Tordeur, L'Antiquité classique 65 (1996): 337; S. T. Newmyer, The Classical Outlook: Journal of the American Classical League 72 (1994-95): 143-4; D.E. Hill, Classical Review 46 (1996): 29-30; J. Pucci, The Classical World 89 (1995-96): 514; U. Eigler, Gnomon 69 (1997): 26-9; A.-M. Taisne, Latomus 55 (1996): 923-4. See too W.J. Dominik, "Response: Dominik on Dewar on Dominik," Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.3.19

Dominik, William J., "Speech in Flavian epic," in Pol Defosse, ed., Hommages à Carl Deroux, 1: Poésie, Collection Latomus 266 (Bruxelles: Latomus, 2002): 183-92
• Reviews: Cupaiuolo, BStudLat 33.1 (2003): 290-92; Van Langenhoven, L'Antiquité classique 73 (2004): 371-73; Martin, Revue des études latines 82 (2004): 453-54; Bonfante, American Journal of Archaeology 110.3 (2006) (not paginated)

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

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

Georgacopoulou, Sophia A., "Technique narrative et voix du narrateur: L'apostrophe dans la Thébaïde de Stace," PhD Dissertation (Université de Paris IV, 1994)

Lovatt, Helen, "Meanwhile Back at the Ranch: Narrative Transition and Structural Intertextuality in Statius Thebaid 1," 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), 21-42

Myers, Karen Sara, "Statius on Invocation and Inspiration," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 31-53
• Statius' innovations in the invocation of the Muses show his poetic originality. Discussion of his relationship with Callimachus.

Scioli, Emma Jane, "Incohat Ismene: The Dream Narrative as a Mode of Female Discourse in Epic Poetry," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 140 (2010) 195-238
• "Ismene's nightmare in Book 8 of Statius's Thebaid is examined by contextualizing it within the epic's narrative, comparing it with the dream narrations of other female characters in epic poetry, and aligning it with other typically female modes of subjective expression in epic, such as weaving, teichoscopy, and lamentation. By exposing the difficulties inherent in retelling a dream, Statius demonstrates sympathy with the female perspective on the war that constitutes the central action of his poem and foreshadows the subsequent inadequacy of words in reaction to its horror," (from LAPH).

Serrao, Manuela, "Il tropo dell'iperbole nell'opera epica di Stazio," in Aspetti di stile e di aemulatio fra Plauto e Stazio con appendice dantesca (Florence: [s. n.], 2009), 127-81

Simms, Robert C., "Chronology and Canonicity in Jocasta's Intercessions in Statius' Thebaid," Illinois Classical Studies 39 (2014) 171-189
• Comparison with Jocasta's efforts to prevent the conflict between her sons in Statius with Stesichorus, Euripides, and Seneca. Statius's is unique, as Jocasta never stands between her sons. This modification of a traditional narrative creates uncertainty, adding to the suspense of the duel.

Structure

The Silvae

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

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. Th., The Silvae of Statius: Structure and Theme, Mnemosyne Supplementum 53 (Leiden, 1979)
• Reviews: M. Morford, Classical Philology 76 (1981): 331-33; B. Kytzler, Gnomon 52 (1980): 677-80; D.W.T. Vessey, Classical Review 30 (1980): 205-206

Vessey, D., "Aspects of Statius' Epithalamion," Mnemosyne 25 (1972): 172-87
• S.1.2 arranged AAabc>>abcBA, which demonstrates his mannerism.

The Thebaid

Berlincourt, Valéry, "Commenter la Thébaïde de Stace (livre 3): Éléments de problématique," Appunti Romani di Filologia: Studi e Comunicazioni di Filologia, Linguistica e Letteratura Greca e Latina 4 (2002): 61-79
• Structural and compositional aspects of Book 3.

Bonds, W.S., "Two combats in the Thebaid," Transactions of the American Philological Association 115 (1985): 225-235
• The parallels between the battle between Polynices and Tydeus in Book 1 and that between Polynices and Eteocles in Book 11.

Braund, S.M., "Ending Epic: Statius, Theseus and a Merciful Release," Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 42 (1996): 1-23
• Theseus is a model for the Roman emperor in his controlled indignatio and his excercise of clementia.

Criado Boado, C., "El proemio de la Tebaida estaciana. Una estructura no virgiliana", Florentia Iliberritana 9 (1998), 111-40

Dietrich, Jessica, "Thebais Rescriptrix: Rewriting and Closure in Statius' Thebaid 12," unpublished PhD Dissertation, University of Southern California, 1997
• Summary in: Dissertation Abstracts International 58.5 (1997-1998): 1693A

Franchet d'Espèrey, Sylvie, "La composition de la Thébaïde de Stace," in L'univers épique: Rencontres avec l'Antiquité classique, II, ed. Michel Woronoff, Institut Félix Gaffiot 9, Annales littéraires de l'Université de Besançon 460 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1992), 217-27
• The double-ending of the Thebaid (Books 11 and 12) reflects the duality and constant tension of the poem. Given its structural importance, the whole poem should be read in the light of the dual ending.

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.

Franchet d'Espèrey, Sylvie, "Finir l'histoire: La voix du poète aux chants 11 et 12 de la Thébaïde de Stace," pp. 285-98 of Emmanuelle Raymond, ed., Vox poetae: Manifestations auctoriales dans l'épopée gréco-latine: Actes du colloque organisé les 13 et 14 novembre 2008 par l'université Lyon 3, Collection du Centre d'études romaines et gallo-romaines, n.s. 39 (Paris: de Boccard, 2011)
• The Thebaid as two endings: the double death of Etheocles and Polynices in Book 11 and the victory of Theseus in Book 12. This is evident by the two epilogues of the poem: 12.797-809 and the sphragis (12.810-891). The voice of the poet is present in both cases.

Frank, E., "La compozitione della Tebaide di Stazio," [in english] Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo, Classe di Lettere, Scienze morali e storiche 99 (1965): 309-318
• Examination of various theories on the structure of the poem. Two main parts, with 4 symmetrical groups of 3 books.

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.

Henderson, J., "Statius' Thebaid: Form Premade," Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 37 (1991-92): 30-80
• Contentiousness constitutes narration in Statius' epic.

Henderson, J., "Form Remade/Statius' Thebaid," in A.J. Boyle, ed., Roman Epic (London: Routledge, 1993): 162-91

Kabsch, Edda, "Funktion und Stellung des zwölften Buches der Thebais des P. Papinius Statius," Dissertation, Uni-Kiel, 1968

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, B., "Zum Aufbau der statianischen Thebais: Pius Coroebus, Theb. 1.557-692," Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.32.5 (1986): 2913-2924

Lesueur, Roger, "Sur la structure rythmique du récit de quelques épisodes de la Thébaïde de Stace et de l'Énéide," Revue des études latines 74 (1996): 231-46
• Virgil uses a tripartite structure, in which the final episode is usually successful. Statius does not use this structure.

Pollmann, Karla F. L., "Statius' Thebaid and the Legacy of Vergil's Aeneid," Mnemosyne Ser. 4 54.1 (2001): 10-30
• Examines the similarities and differences between the two epics. An appendix provides a structural comparison of the Iliad, the Thebaid, and the Aeneid.

Smolenaars, J.J.L., "De verschrikkingen van de oorlog. Statius' verwerking van Vergilius' Aeneis," [in Dutch; summary in English] Lampas 15 (1982): 28-42
• The influence of the Aeneid on the structure of Thebaid 7.

Venini, P., "Studi sulla Tebaide di Stazio: La composizione," Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo, Classe di Lettere, Scienze morali e storiche 95 (1961): 55-88
• Statius has a preoccupation with unity.

Venini, P., "A proposito di alcuni recenti studi sulla composizione della Tebaide staziana," Athenaeum 46 (1968): 131-38
• On the studies of E. Frank, ("Struttura dell'esametro di Stazio," Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo, Classe di Lettere, Scienze morali e storiche 102 (1968) 396-408); and W. Schetter (Untersuchungen zur epischen Kunst des Statius, 1960).

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