| Abbamonte, G., "Papinio Stazio e il monte Gaurus produttore di vino," Vichiana 54 (2017) 119-127 |
| Amato, Eugenio, "Per la cronologia di Dionisio il periegeta," Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 3.ser. 77.1 (2003): 7-16 • New arguments for the identification of Domitian with the emperor under whom the Romans destroyed the Nasamones, alluded to by Dionysius in ll. 208-10, are drawn from a comparison with the evidence of Dio Cassius and Statius. |
| 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. |
| Augoustakis, Antony, and R. Joy Littlewood, "Campania in the Flavian Poets' Imagination," chapter 1 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Bessone, Federica, "Quam Romanus honos et Graia licentia miscent: Cultural Fusion, Ethical Temper, and Poetic Blend in Statius' Ideal Campania," chapter 10 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Blänsdorf, Jürgen, "Drei römische Dichter über Strassenbau und Reiseverkehr," in Vorträge und Aufsätze zur lateinischen Literatur der Antike und des Mittelalters, Studien zur klassischen Philologie 170 (Bern: Lang, 2015), pp. 375-388 • On Horace, Statius, and Ausonius. • Review: Schmitz, Forum Classicum 59 (2016) 176-178 |
| Buongiovanni, Claudio, "Literary Representations of Naples in Flavian Poetry," chapter 2 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Caballero González, Manuel, "Athamas dans une lampe du Musée National Romain de Rome," Revue des études anciennes 116 (2014) 43-59 and plate • A lamp in Rome (Museo delle Terme, Inv. 62164) is not derived from Seneca's Thyestes but rather from Valerius Flaccus and Statius, as Athamas and not Atreus is the central image. |
| Cancik, H., "Ein epikurische Villa. Statius, Silv. 2.2, villa Surrentina," Der altsprachliche Unterricht: Arbeitshefte zu seiner wissenschaftlichen Begründung und praktischen Gestalt 21.1 (1968): 62-75 |
| Cancik, H., "Tibur Vopisci: Statius, Silve 1.3, Villa Tiburtina Manili Vopisci," Boreas 1 (1978): 116-134 • Topographical, archaeological, prosopographical information. Aesthetic and psychology of Roman villa-culture at the end of the first century AD. |
| Cancik-Lindemaier, H., "Amphitheater: Zum Problem der Gesamtinterpretation am Beispiel von Statius, Silve 2.5: Leo mansuetus," Der altsprachliche Unterricht: Arbeitshefte zu seiner wissenschaftlichen Begründung und praktischen Gestalt 14.3 (1971): 72-75 |
| 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. |
| Coleman, K.M., "Stones in the forest: Epigraphic allusion in the Silvae," in J.J.L. Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam, Ruurd R. Nauta (edd.), The Poetry of Statius, Mnemosyne Suppl. 306 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 19-44 |
| 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. |
| Daumas, M., "L'amphore de Panaguriste et les sept contre Thebes," Antike Kunst 21 (1978): 23-31 • On Theb. 3.456-647. |
| de Visscher, F., "Héraklès Epitrapezios," L'Antiquité Classique 30 (1961): 67-129 • On a marble Hercules, found in Alba Fucens in 1960. This provdes evidence for the descriptions of Martial 9.44.45 and Silv. 4.6. Discussion of iconographic tradition of Lysippus. |
| de Visscher, F. and J. Mertens, "Il colosso di Ercole scoperto ad Alba Fucens," Bollettino d'arte del Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali 45 (1960): 293-6 • A discussion of Mart. 9.44.45 and Silv. 4.6 in light of new discoveries. |
| De Cristofaro, Alessandra, "La lezione tegit di Stat. Silv. 1.1.51," Bollettino di Studi Latini: Periodico Semestrale d'Informazione Bibliografica 46 (2016) 587-592, with plate • The reading tegit is preferable to terit on the basis of a coin from 95-96 d.C. (British Museum 1978, 1021.5 ; RIC 2.1 D 797), in which the personification of the Rhine appears under the hoof of Domitian's horse. |
| Dewar, M., "The Equine Cuckoo: Statius' Ecus Maximus Domitiani Imperatoris and the Flavian Forum," in J.J.L. Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam, Ruurd R. Nauta (edd.), The Poetry of Statius, Mnemosyne Suppl. 306 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 65-84 |
| Duval, P.M., "La construction d'une voie romaine d'après les texts antiques," BSAF 1959 [1961] 176-186 • Silv. 4.3.40-55 is our best ancient testimony. |
| Esposito, Paolo, "Campanian Geography in Statius' Silvae," chapter 8 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Folse, M.E., "Arts and Crafts in the Epics of Vergil, Lucan, and Statius," in R.P. Robinson, ed., Philological studies in honor of W. Miller (Columbua: Univ. of Missouri, 1936) |
| Fortgens, H.W., "Publius Papinius Statius, de latijnse dichter van het kinderleven," Hermeneus 31 (1959): 52-9 |
| Gaymann, Valentin, Kunstarchäologische Studien zu P. Pap. Statius, Inaugural dissertation, Universität Würzburg (Uürzburg: Becker, 1898). Link. |
| 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. |
| Hendry, M., "A Pile-Driver in Statius (Silvae 1.1.64)," Liverpool Classical Monthly 18 (1993): 74-5 • The machina is neither crane nor scaffolding, but a festuca. |
| Henry, James, "Photographie und Tischrüchen, Erfindungen des Alterthums," Jahrbuch für classische Philologie 93 (1865): 643-4 • A note on Silv. 3.4.93. |
| Hogenmüller, Boris, "Wann hat das Fest bei Adrastos stattgefunden?: Eine Untersuchung zu Stat. Theb. 1.692-693," Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 57 (2017) 461-70 • Theb. 1.692-693 refers to an actual astronomical event, the fading of a star in Ursa Major. |
| Killeen, J.F., "What was the linea dives (Martial 8.78.7)?" The American Journal of Philology 80 (1959): 185-88 • A Pompeian painting, called enigmatic by some, depicts distribution of fruits, meats, and birds, reflecting a passage in Martial and Silvae 1.6.9. |
| Kytzler, B., "Die Darstellung von Ehe und Familie in den epischen und lyrischen Dictungen des Statius," VoxP 5 (1985): 63-74 • The depiction of domestic life yields a softness on which Dante would comment. This may be Dante's reason for seeing Statius as pre-Christian. |
| Lehar, Hannes, "Dem ignis languidus auf der Spur: Kann man von einem römischen Dichter Heiztechnik lernen?" in Elisabeth Trinkl, ed., Akten des 14. österreichischen Archäologentages am Institut für Archäologie der Universität Graz vom 19. bis 21. April 2012, Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Archäologie der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 11 (Wien: Phoibos, 2014), pp. 239-246 • The mention of the hypocaust at Silv. 1.5.58 f. seems to mention the fire in the praefurnium and the movement of the heated air. Using a computer model, the authors show that this is possibly an accurate description of how the hypocaust worked. Further studies are needed. |
| Lóio, Ana, "Through the Past to the Future of Naples: Text and History in Silvae 4.8," chapter 11 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Lugli, G., "La Roma di Domiziano nei versi di Marziane e di Stazio," StudRom 9 (1961): 1-17. • Martial describes activity to repair after the fire of 64, both imperially and in the popular quarters. Statius described the buildings and objects of art. |
| Manolaraki, Eleni, Noscendi Nilum cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, Trends in Classics, Supplementary Volume 18 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013) • Egypt in Lucan, Philostratus (Vita Apollonii), Valerius Flaccus, Statius (Thebais and Silvae) and Plutarch (De Iside et Osiride). |
| Mantke, J., "Die aesthetische oder dichterische Funktion des Vesuv-Bildes," Eos 78 (1985): 277-296 • Presence and role of the destruction of Vesuvius in Latin literature. |
| McClure, Jason, "Thebaid 2.239, 2.729 and the Problem of Aracynthus," Mnemosyne 64.1 (2011): 58-81 • Statius mentions Mount Aracynthus twice. The first recalls Propertius 3.15.42, recalling to mind the myth of Dorce. The second refers to a second MOunt Aracynthus, which we are unable to locate: Sextus Empiricus (Aduersus Mathematicos 1.257-258) locates it in Attica or Boeotia. |
| McNelis, C., "Ut Sculptura Poesis: Statius, Martial, and the Hercules Epitrapezios of Novius Vindex," The American Journal of Philology 129.2 (2008): 255-276 |
| Miletti, Lorenzo, "Calderini, Poliziano, Barbaro e il 'ritorno' di Temesa nell'Umanesimo," Atene e Roma: Rassegna trimestrale dell'Associazione Italiana di Cultura classica N.S. 1, 1-2 (2007) 39-52 • At the end of the 15th century, Domizio Calderini, Angelo Poliziano, and Ermolao Barbaro entered into a learned debate on the ancient city of Temesa in their commentaries on Pliny the Younger and Statius. |
| Nadeau, J. Y., "Ethiopians Again, and Again," Mnemosyne 30 (1977): 75-78 |
| Neumeister, Christoff, "Statius' Propemptikon für Maecius Celer (Silvae III 2) und das sogenannte Torlonia-Relief: Schiffstechnische Bemerkungen zu einem poetischen Text," in Manuel Baumbach, Helga Köhler, and Adolf Martin Ritter, edd., Mousopolos Stephanos: Festschrift für Herwig Görgemanns, Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, n.F. 2. Reihe 102 (Festschrift H. Görgemanns) (Heidelberg: Winter, 1998): 160-73 • The description of the ship in Silv. 3.2.25-34 is similar to a pendant in the third-century Torlonia relief. The relief supports Marastoni's reading flatus in line 30. |
| Öberg, G., "Some Notes on the Marvels of Civilization in Imperial Roman Literature," Eranos 76 (1978): 145-55 |
| Ouvry, J., "Une réplique de l'Héraclès Epitrapezios retrouvée," Antike Kunst 32 (1989): 152-4 • Reproduction of the Lysippus, as attributed by Martial and Statius. |
| Pavlovskis, Z., Man in an Artificial Landscape: The Marvels of Imperial Roman Civilization, Mnemosyne Supplement 25 (1977) |
| Pernier, L., "Copie italiche dell'Herakles Epitrapezios di Lisippo," Archaiologike Ephemeris (1937): 33-9 • Another statuette, of Sinalonga, from the first century AD by an Etruso-Italian artist. Cf. Martial and Statius for the original, in possession of Nonius Vindex (Mart. 9.43.44, S. 4.6). |
| Pézard, A., "Gravis artemo," Revue des études latines (1947): 215-235 • Reconstruction of the naval manoeuvre in Silv. 3.2.24-34. |
| Phillimore, J.S., "Statius and the Date of the 'Culex'," Classical Quarterly 11 (1917): 106 • Response to W.B. Anderson, "Statius and the date of the Culex," Classical Quarterly 10 (1916): 225-26. • Review: Schuster, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 212 (1927): 142 |
| Robert, L., "Récherches épigraphique, VII: Décret de la Confédération lycienne à Corinthe," Revue des études anciennes 62 (1960): 324-342 • On the Roman practice of using incense at funerals, taken from Statius. |
| Rosati, Gianpiero, "Muggiti nel foro: Su un'immagine di Stazio, Silvae 1.1.69," pp. 443-49 of Giampaolo Borghello, vol. 1: Linguaggi, culture, letterature: studi in ricordo (Udine: Forum, 2012) • Statius' description of the Forum re-casts the legends of the origins of the city to indicate a new foundation. . • Review: Manco, AION(ling) N.S. 1 (2012): 329-37 |
| Sacerdoti, Arianna, " Balsami, palme e milizie: gli epici flavi e la Giudea," in Stefano Manferlotti and Marisa Squillante, edd., Ebraismo e letteratura (Napoli: Liguori, 2008): 21-34 • Silius Italicus, Valerius Flaccus, and Statius mention Judea in relationship to the political-military conquest but also show an interest in the land and people. |
| 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 |
| Sakellariou, Antonios I. (Σακελλαριου, Αντωνιος I.), "Aegaeum, pelagus spumans," 'Αποψεις, Περιοδικη 'εκδοση του Συλλογου Εκπαιδευτικων Λειτουργων του Κολλεγιου 'Αθηνων = Apopseis (Athens) 6 (1992) 121-45 • The Aegean in Silver Latin authors. |
| Santini, Carlo, "Pertinenza della similitudine del Nilo con la siccità della Argolide: Intertestualità, paradossografia e scoliastica nel quarto libro della Tebaide di Stazio," in Vir bonus peritissimus aeque: Estudos de homenagem a Arnaldo do Espírito Santo, ed. Maria Cristina Pimentel and Paulo Farmhouse Alberto (Lisboa: Centro de Estudos clássicos, 2013), 255-263 |
| Smith, Martin F., "Ducks' Eggs in Statius, Silvae 4.9.30?," Classical Quarterly 44 (1994): 551-554 |
| Smyth, W.R., "Statius, Silvae 1.6.73-74 and Martial 1.41.3-5," Classical Review (1947): 46-7 • On the type of commerce in these two passages. |
| Taisne, A.-M., "Peintures de villas chez Stace," Caesarodunum 13 (1978): 40-53 • Joins plays of the imagination to the real villa. Comparison with archaeology. Art of his technique and taste of the Flavian epoch. |
| Thomas, M.L., "(Re)Locating Domitian's Horse of Glory: The Equus Domitiani and Flavian Urban Design," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 49 (2004): 21-46 |
| Thompson, D'A.W., "Byzantios olent lacertos (Stat. S. 4.9.13)," Classical Review (1932): 246-8 • The fish is the lacertus, which was abundant and well bought from the fisheries of Constantinople. |
| Tidman, B.M., "On the foundation of the Actian games," Classical Quarterly 44 (1950): 123-5 • Silvae 2.2.6 ff. allows us to place their foundation at 27 BC. |
| Tourlides, G.A., "Miscellanea Thracia in Thebaidem P. Papini Stati: Thrace, Thraces, Thracius," Thrakika 46 (1972): 20-22 • A discussion of the eleven references with commentary. |
| Traglia, A., "Il pantheon flaviano," Atti del congresso internazionale di studi vespasianei, Rieti settembre 1979 (Rieti : Centro di studi varroniani, 1981), 535-540 • A discussion of Silv..1.1.94 sq. |
| Weiler, Ingomar, "Hic audax subit ordo pumilorum (Statius, Silvae 1,6,57). Überlegungen zu Zwergen und Behinderten in der antiken Unterhaltungskultur," Grazer Beiträge 21 (1995): 121-145 |
| Philipp, Hans, Die historisch-geographischen Quellen in den Etymologiae des Isidorus von Sevilla, I, Quellen und Forschungen zur alten Geschichte und Geographie, 25 (Berlin, 1912): 61-65 |
| Sakellariou, Antonios I. (Σακελλαριου, Αντωνιος I.), "Aegaeum, pelagus spumans," 'Αποψεις, Περιοδικη 'εκδοση του Συλλογου Εκπαιδευτικων Λειτουργων του Κολλεγιου 'Αθηνων = Apopseis (Athens) 6 (1992) 121-45 • The Aegean in Silver Latin authors. |
| Manolaraki, Eleni, Noscendi Nilum cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, Trends in Classics, Supplementary Volume 18 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013) • Egypt in Lucan, Philostratus (Vita Apollonii), Valerius Flaccus, Statius (Thebais and Silvae) and Plutarch (De Iside et Osiride). |
| Augoustakis, Antony, and R. Joy Littlewood, "Campania in the Flavian Poets' Imagination," chapter 1 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), • Snippet Review: Markus Kersten, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Augoustakis, Antony, and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Augoustakis, Antony, and R. Joy Littlewood, "Campania in the Flavian Poets' Imagination," chapter 1 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Bessone, Federica, "Quam Romanus honos et Graia licentia miscent: Cultural Fusion, Ethical Temper, and Poetic Blend in Statius' Ideal Campania," chapter 10 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Bessone, Federica, "Quam Romanus honos et Graia licentia miscent: Cultural Fusion, Ethical Temper, and Poetic Blend in Statius' Ideal Campania," chapter 10 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Esposito, Paolo, "Campanian Geography in Statius' Silvae," chapter 8 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Newlands, Carole, "Statius' Post-Vesuvian Landscapes and Virgil's Parthenope," in N.Coffee, C. Forstall, D.Nelis, L. Milić Galli, Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry: Contemporary Approaches,Trends in Classics, Supplementary Volume 64 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 349-72 |
| 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 |
| van Buren, A.W., "The Text of Two Sources for Campanian Topography," The American Journal of Philology 51.4 (1930): 378-81 [378-80] • At Silv. 3.5.104, read venarumque for denarumque, referring to the mineral springs and keeping the geographical order. Stabias renatas is difficult, given the small amount of evidence for the importance of the town even after Pompeii was destroyed. |
| Zurli, Loriano, "Per una discussione 'metodica' di Stat. Silv. V 3, 127," Myrtia: Revista de Filología Clásica 31 (2016) 413-17 • "Velie graius" at Silv. 5.3.127 is an embedded gloss. Read "Graia refert Elea esse, unus qua puppe magister / excidit." |
| Nadeau, J. Y., "Ethiopians Again, and Again," Mnemosyne 30 (1977): 75-78 |
| Abbamonte, G., "Papinio Stazio e il monte Gaurus produttore di vino," Vichiana 54 (2017) 119-127 |
| Buongiovanni, Claudio, "Literary Representations of Naples in Flavian Poetry," chapter 2 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Fielding, Ian, "Statius and his Renaissance Readers: The Rediscovery of a poeta Neapolitanus," in Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 271-84 • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Lóio, Ana, "Through the Past to the Future of Naples: Text and History in Silvae 4.8," chapter 11 of Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood, eds., Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.10.49 |
| Santini, Carlo, "Pertinenza della similitudine del Nilo con la siccità della Argolide: Intertestualità, paradossografia e scoliastica nel quarto libro della Tebaide di Stazio," in Vir bonus peritissimus aeque: Estudos de homenagem a Arnaldo do Espírito Santo, ed. Maria Cristina Pimentel and Paulo Farmhouse Alberto (Lisboa: Centro de Estudos clássicos, 2013), 255-263 |
| De Cristofaro, Alessandra, "La lezione tegit di Stat. Silv. 1.1.51," Bollettino di Studi Latini: Periodico Semestrale d'Informazione Bibliografica 46 (2016) 587-592, with plate • The reading tegit is preferable to terit on the basis of a coin from 95-96 d.C. (British Museum 1978, 1021.5 ; RIC 2.1 D 797), in which the personification of the Rhine appears under the hoof of Domitian's horse. |
| Miletti, Lorenzo, "Calderini, Poliziano, Barbaro e il 'ritorno' di Temesa nell'Umanesimo," Atene e Roma: Rassegna trimestrale dell'Associazione Italiana di Cultura classica N.S. 1, 1-2 (2007) 39-52 • At the end of the 15th century, Domizio Calderini, Angelo Poliziano, and Ermolao Barbaro entered into a learned debate on the ancient city of Temesa in their commentaries on Pliny the Younger and Statius. |
| Tourlides, G.A., "Miscellanea Thracia in Thebaidem P. Papini Stati: Thrace, Thraces, Thracius," Thrakika 46 (1972): 20-22 • A discussion of the eleven references with commentary. |
| Mantke, J., "Die aesthetische oder dichterische Funktion des Vesuv-Bildes," Eos 78 (1985): 277-296 • Presence and role of the destruction of Vesuvius in Latin literature. |
| Newlands, Carole, "The Eruption of Vesuvius in the Epistles of Statius and Pliny," in John F. Miller and A. J. Woodman, edd., Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire: Generic Interactions, Mnemosyne Suppl. 321 (Leiden, 2010): 105-22 • Silv. 3.5 and 4.4 and Pliny (Ep. 6.16 and 6.20) used the epistolary form instead of epic to create a consoling perspective. Both poets largely avoid the themes of portents and the anger of the gods and blur the boundaries between poetry and history, fiction and plain-speaking. In contrast, Martial 4.44 uses the Hellenistic genre of epideictic epigram. |
| Newlands, Carole, "Statius' Post-Vesuvian Landscapes and Virgil's Parthenope," in N.Coffee, C. Forstall, D.Nelis, L. Milić Galli, Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry: Contemporary Approaches,Trends in Classics, Supplementary Volume 64 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 349-72 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Egelhaaf-Gaiser, U., "Kolossale Miniaturen: Der Holzfäller Hercules in Statius' 'Wäldern' (Silve 3,1)," Millenium 4 (2007): 63-92 |
| Friedländer, L., "De personis nonnullis a Statio commemoratis," Index lectionum hibernarum Monasteriensium 1870/71 (Münster, 1870): 6-7 |
| Friedländer, L., "Recensio poetarum Statio Martiali Plinio iuniori contemporaneorum," Index lectionum hibernarum Monasteriensium 1870/71 (Münster, 1870): 4-5 |
| Friedländer, L., "Die Gönner und Freunde des Martial und Statius," Darstellung aus der Sittengeschichte Roms, III (Münster, 1871): 396-411 |
| Jones, Frederick M.A., "Names and Naming in Soft Poetry," in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 13, Collection Latomus 301 (2006): 5-31 • On name choice in lyric and elegiac poetry, especially Catullus and the Silvae. |
| Nohl, H., "Zwei Freunde des Statius," Hermes 12 (1877): 517-8 |
| Riegler, F., Historische Ereignisse und Personen bei Martial und Statius, Dissertation, Wein, 1967 |
| Rosati, Gianpiero, "Amare il tiranno: Creazione del consenso e linguaggio encomiastico nella cultura flavia," pp. 265-80 of Gianpaolo Urso, ed., Dicere laudes: Elogio, comunicazione, creazione del consenso: Atti del convegno internazionale, Cividale del Friuli, 23-25 settembre 2010, I convegni della Fondazione Niccolò Canussio 10 (Pisa: ETS, 2011) • A reconsideration of Statius' and Martial's relationship with the political powers. The two saw themselves as official interpreters of the current trends and provided the people with an idealized view of the emperor. • Review: Sannicandro Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.08.11 |
| Rühl, Meike, "Creating the Distinguished Addressee: Literary Patronage in the Works of Statius," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 91-105 • A study of the events for which both Statius and Martial composed poems (especially Atedius Melior). |
| Santini, C., "Personaggi divini (e umani) nella Tebaide di Stazio e nei Punica di Silio Italico," La storia, la letteratura e l'arte a Roma, da Tiberio a Domiziano. Atti del convegno (Mantova, Teatro Accademico, 4-5-6-7 ottobre 1990 (Mantova, 1992): 383-96 |
| White, P., Aspects of Non-Imperial Patronage in the Works of Martial and Statius, Diss. Harvard U., 1972. Summary in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 77 (1973): 258-60 |
| White, P., "The Friends of Martial, Statius, and Pliny and the Dispersal of Patronage," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 79 (1975): 265-300 • Members of their groups rarely overlapped. At this time, there were no single patron-groups as there were under Augustus. |
| Zeiner, Noelle Kirsten, "Vox aurea: The Role of Socio-Economic Distinction in Statius' Silvae, Dissertation, Indiana U., 2002 |
| Rühl, Meike, "Creating the Distinguished Addressee: Literary Patronage in the Works of Statius," in William J. Dominik et al., edd., Brill's Companion to Statius (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 91-105 • A study of the events for which both Statius and Martial composed poems (especially Atedius Melior). |
| 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 |
| Voelkel, L., "The Selection of Coin Types During the Reign of Domitian," in G.E. Mylonas and D.I. Raymond, edd., Studies Presented to D.M. Robinson, II (St. Louis, Mo.: Washington Univ. Press, 1951): 243-7 • According to Silv. 3.3.86-105 that it was the procurator a rationibus Claudius who composed and chose Domitian's coins. |
| Weaver, P.R.C., "The Father of Claudius Etruscus: Statius, Silvae 3.3," Classical Quarterly 15 (1965): 145-54 • We know little, not even his name. But: he was born in AD 2-3, was exiled in 82-3, and died in 92. He married Etrusca in c. 48-50 after manumission. More details about his career under Vespasian. |
| Pekáry, T., "Témoinages de Stace sur les Daces et les Sarmates," [in Hungarian] Antik Tanulmányok 2 (1955): 97-100. Summary in BCO 2 (1957): 79 |
| Diva Domitilla |
| Wood, Susan, "Who was Diva Domitilla? Some Thoughts on the Public Images of the Flavian Women," American Journal of Archaeology 114.1 (2010): 45-57, with plate • The identity of Domitilla, who had died before the Flavians came to power but who was deified early in the principate of Domitian, remains controversial. Numismatic evidence points to the mother of Domitian as the diua. Silv. 1.1 suggests that it is actually Domitian's sister. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Camera, Elisa, "Marziale e Stazio tra inimicizia ed emulazione," in Ferruccio Bertini, ed., FuturAntico 4 (Genova: D.AR.FI.CL.ET. Francesco Della Corte, 2007): 155-90 • Comparison of the two authors, in particular their ways of flattering the emperor and indications of their rivalry. |
| Charles, Michael B., "Calvus Nero: Domitian and the Mechanics of Predecessor Denigration," AClass 45 (2002): 19-49 • Comparison of praise for Domitian during his life with the denigration after his death. Discussion of Martial 6.4, Silv. 4.2.65-67, and Frontinus Strat. 1.3.10, 1.1.8, 2.11.7 compared with Pliny Paneg. 16.3, Suetonius' Nero and Domitian, and Frontinus Aq. 118. |
| Coleman, Kathleen M., "The Emperor Domitian and Literature," Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.32.5 (1986): 3087-115 |
| Danglard, J., Sur Stace et surtout de ses Silves (Clermont-Ferrand: Ferdinand Thibauer, 1864) • (I) On Statius' relationship with his conpemporaries and his reception and influence in the Middle Ages; (II) His life and family; (III) On the composition of the Silvae, including their influence on Politian; (IV) The end of Statius' life and his relationship with Domitian; (V)-(XIV) Discussion of individual Silvae in groups. |
| De Cristofaro, Alessandra, "La lezione tegit di Stat. Silv. 1.1.51," Bollettino di Studi Latini: Periodico Semestrale d'Informazione Bibliografica 46 (2016) 587-592, with plate • The reading tegit is preferable to terit on the basis of a coin from 95-96 d.C. (British Museum 1978, 1021.5 ; RIC 2.1 D 797), in which the personification of the Rhine appears under the hoof of Domitian's horse. |
| Elm, Dorothee, "Die Entgrenzung des Alter(n)s: Zur Kaiserpanegyrik in der Dichtung des Statius und Martial," pp. 237-60 of Thorsten Fitzon, Sandra Linden, Kathrin Liess, and Dorothee Elm, edd., Alterszäsuren: Zeit und Lebensalter in Literatur, Theologie und Geschichte (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012): 237-60. • Statius and Martial (Liber Spectaculorum) portray Domitian as eternally young and compare this with mythical and historical parallels. Discussion of Domitian's death as a watershed in Martial's works. •Reviews: Wagner-Hasel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.11.42; Brandt, Sehepunkte 12.4 (2012) |
| Elm, Dorothee, "Die Entgrenzung des Alter(n)s: zur Kaiserpanegyrik in der Dichtung des Statius und Martial," pp. 237-60 of Thorsten Fitzon, Sandra Linden, Kathrin Liess, and Dorothee Elm, edd., Alterszäsuren: Zeit und Lebensalter in Literatur, Theologie und Geschichte (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012): 237-60. • Statius and Martial (Liber Spectaculorum) portray Domitian as eternally young and compare this with mythical and historical parallels. Discussion of Domitian's death as a watershed in Martial's works. •Reviews: Wagner-Hasel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.11.42; Brandt, Sehepunkte 12.4 (2012) |
| Fredrick, David C., "Architecture and surveillance," in Anthony James Boyle and William J. Dominik, edd., Flavian Rome: Culture, Image, Text (Leiden: Brill, 2003): 199-227 and pll. • Reviews: Piccaluga, StudRom 51.1-2 (2003): 164; Hekster, Scripta classica Israelica 23 (2004): 294-96; Littlewood, Classical Review n.s. 55.2 (2005): 628-30; Habermehl, Gymnasium 112.5 (2005): 486-87; Moormann, Mnemosyne ser. 4 58.1 (2005): 144-53; Naas, Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 3 ser. 78.2 (2004): 406-408; Grewing, Plekos 9 (2007): 79-85; Klauck, BiZ n.F. 51.2 (2007): 291-92 |
| 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. |
| Grosso, F., "Aspetti della politica orientale di Domiziano, II: Parti e Estremo Oriente," Epigraphica 17 (1955 [1957]): 33-78 • What we know about Domitian and the Parthians on Statius' authority, from the Sybilline oracles, epigraphical evidence, and a diploma (Welkov, BIAB 4 [1926-27]: 69-81). |
| Hartman, J.J., "De Domitiano imperatore et de poeta Statio," Mnemosyne n.s. 44 (1916): 338-372 • Historical allusions in the Theb. The reputation of D. derives from suspect sources and literary conventions. • Review: Schuster Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 212 (1927): 141. |
| Hulls, Jean-Michel, "Raising one's standards? Domitian as model in Ammianus 14.1.10," AClass 51 (2008): 117-24 • Ammianus describes Gallus at 14.1.10 as "raising the standards of his obstinacy". The unusual phrase is framed by a double allusion to Aen. 2.304-307 and 2.496-499 and must be a reference to a description of the emperor Domitian at Statius S. 4.2. Whereas Ammianus' normal practice in alluding to Statius is to use him simply as a repository of arresting phraseology, here he makes a more pronounced political point through intertextual allusion. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| Lorenz, Sven, "Martial, Herkules und Domitian: Büsten, Statuetten und Statuen im Epigrammaton liber nonus," Mnemosyne Ser. 4 56.5 (2003): 566-84 • Martial 9.43 and 44 on a statuette of Hercules owned by the patron Novius Vindex (also mentioned in Statius Silv. 4.6) tell us something about Martial's relationship with Statius and about patronage in the age of Domitian. Martial shows how even the lowest genre of poetry can serve as panegyric literature for the sublime emperor Domitian. |
| 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. |
| Morzadec, Françoise, "Stace et la Sibylle: Rivalité littéraire autour de la louange de Domitien: La Silve IV, 3," in Monique Bouquet and Françoise Morzadec, edd., La Sibylle: Parole et représentation (Rennes: Pr. Universitaires de Rennes, 2004): 85-98 • Reviews: Hummel, BiblH&R 66.3 (2004): 693-95; Cormier, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.11; Suárez de la Torre, Kernos 18 (2005): 550-52; Van Haeperen, RBPh 84.1 (2006): 161; Deschamps, Revue des études anciennes 106.2 (2004): 657-58; Poccetti, Revue des études latines 85 (2007): 437-39; Roessli, Revue de l'histoire des religions 224.2 (2007): 253-71 |
| Penwill, J.L., "Quintilian, Statius and the lost epic of Domitian," Ramus 29 (2000): 47-59 |
| 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, "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 |
| Scott, Kenneth, "Statius' Adulation of Domitian," The American Journal of Philology 54 (1933): 247-59 |
| Seager, Robin, "Domitianic Themes in Statius' Silvae," in Francis Cairns and Miriam T. Griffin, edd., Papers of the Langford Latin seminar 14: Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome: Greek and Roman Poetry and Historiography, ARCA: Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 50 (Leeds: Cairns, 2010), pp. 341-374 • "On: 1) Domitian and divinity ; 2) continuity, renewal, permanence, and the dynasty ; 3) peace, war, and Rome's imperial mission ; and 4) Domitian as sole source of preferment. In appendix: iussus or ausus in 1. ep. 19?" (from LAPH). |
| Seager, Robin, "Domitianic Themes in Statius' Silvae," in Francis Cairns and Miriam Griffin, edd., Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome: Greek and Roman Poetry and Historiography, Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 14 (ARCA 50) (Cambridge: Francis Cairns Publications, 2010): 341-74 • "On: Domitian and divinity; continuity, renewal, permanence, and the dynasty; peace, war, and Rome's imperial mission; and Domitian as the sole source of preferment. In appendix: iussus or ausus in 1.pr.19" (from LAPH). |
| Smolenaars, J.J.L., "Ideology and Poetics along the Via Domitiana: Statius Silv. 4.3," in R.R. Nauta, H.-J. van Dam, and J.J.L. Smolenaars, edd., Flavian Poetry, Mnemosyne suppl. 207 (Leiden: Brill, 2008): 223-44 • Although some have seen Silv 4.3 asanti-Domitianic, it is not. It combines themes of Domitianic propaganda with a description the construction of the road. "Emphasis is on the poem's encomium of Domitian's rule, phrased by the poet, the river-god Vulturnus, and the Cumaean Sibyl in a scene influenced by Virgil, Aen. 6 and Ecl. 4." |
| Thompson, L., "Domitianus dominus: A gloss on Statius Silvae 1.6.84," The American Journal of Philology 105 (1984): 469-475 • Statius' comment on Domitian's reticence to become a tyrant is an accurate reflection of Domitian's view. |
| Turner, Andrew, "Frontinus and Domitian: laus principis in the Strategemata," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 103 (2007): 423-49 • No conclusions can be drawn about Frontinus' true opinion of Domitian on the basis of the Strategemata alone. The laus of Domitian in Frontinus' Strategemata does not substantiate the claims of Pliny, Paneg. 54, 3-4 that under such tyrannous emperors sycophantic praise was all-pervasive in speeches made by senators. It also provides a strong contrast to the types of praise found in the works of contemporary professional poets, such as Statius' Silvae or Martial. |
| Turner, Andrew, "Frontinus and Domitian: laus principis in the Strategemata," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 103 (2007): 423-49 • No conclusions can be drawn about Frontinus' true opinion of Domitian on the basis of the Strategemata alone. The laus of Domitian in Frontinus' Strategemata does not substantiate the claims of Pliny, Paneg. 54, 3-4 that sycophantic praise was all-pervasive in speeches made by senators. It also provides a strong contrast to the types of praise found in the works of contemporary professional poets, such as Statius' Silvae or Martial. |
| 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." |
| Vout, C., "Objects of desire: Eroticised political discourse in Imperial Rome," diss. Cambridge 2000 • Martial and Statius (Silvae 3.4) articulate their relationship with their patron Domitian, their feelings for Roman society, and their literary relationship to one another, by writing about Domitian's relationship with a eunuch, Earinus. |
| Henriksén, C., "Earinus: An Imperial Eunuch in the Light of the Poems of Martial and Statius," Mnemosyne ser. 4, 50 (1997): 281-294 • A reconstruction of Earinus' life on the basis of Martial 9.9, 11-13 and 16-17 and Silv. 3.4. |
| Pederzani, O., "L'imperatore e l'eunuco: Note di commento a Stat. Silv. 3.4," Athenaeum 80 (1992): 79-95 • On the relations between Domitian and the young eunuch Earinus of Pergamon. |
| Vassileiou, A., "Dulcem Gallionem (note sur Stace, Silves 2.7.32)," Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 46 (1972): 40-2 • On L. Iunius Gallio Annaeanus, the brother of Seneca the philosopher. |
| Kronenberg, Leah J., "A Petronian Parrot in a Neronian Cage: A New Reading of Statius' Silvae 2.4," Classical Quarterly N.S. 67 (2017) 558-572 • "Many read Silv. 2.4, a poem about a dead parrot dedicated to Atedius Melior, as picking up on the metapoetic strand in his Ovidian model (Am. 2, 6), in which the parrot may be interpreted as a poet figure. Oddities about the dead parrot and its relationship to its dominus have not been explained. This article argues that the parrot stands in for a specific dead poet/writer, namely Petronius, and that the dominus of the poem is Nero. The dominus is mentioned in the first line but is never addressed and there is no indication of a close relationship with Statius. The name Melior is withheld until line 32, and by this time Statius has provided his readers with the tools necessary to decode this complex poem. |
| Pierini, R. Degl' Innocenti, "Pallidus Nero (Stat. Silv. 2.7.118 s.): Il "personaggio" Nerone negli scrittori dell' età flavia," in A. Bonadeo and E. Romano, edd., Dialogando con il Passato: Permanenze e innovazioni nella cultura latina di età flavia (Bagno a Ripoli (Firenze): Le Monnier Università, 2007): 136-59 • Context of Statius' Nero between Lucan, who made him a poet-martyr, and Pliny the Elder (Nat. 7.45-46 and 30.14-16). |
| La Penna, Antonio, "Ipse Coo plaudente Philitas (Stat. Sil. 1.2.252): un' ipoetsi su Fileta di Cos," Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 106 (1988): 318-20 • The allusion is to Philetas. |
| Coleman, K.M., "Silvae 4.9, a Statian Name Game," The Proeeedings of the African Classical Associations 14 (1978): 9-10 • Plotius Grypus is "hook-nosed." Used "nasutus" of Martial and Phaedrus to joke at literary critics. |
| 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. |
| Gauly, Bardo Maria, "Das Glück des Pollius Felix: Römische Macht und privater Luxus in Statius' Villengedicht Silv. 2.2," Hermes 134.4 (2006) 455-70 |
| Nisbet, R. G. M., "Felicitas at Surrentum (Statius, Silvae 2.2)," Journal of Roman Studies 68 (1978): 1-11 • On the variety of the poet's allusions to Pollius' friends and relations. |
| Eck, W., "Statius Silvae 1.4 und C. Rutilius Gallicus als Proconsul Asiae II," The American Journal of Philology 106 (1985): 475-484 |
| Henderson, John G.W., A Roman Life: Rutilius Gallicus on Paper and in Stone, Exeter Studies in History 12 (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998) • Review: Damon, Journal of Roman Studies 90 (2000): 244; Geyssen, Classical Review 50.1 (2000): 55-57 |
| Syme, R., "Statius on Rutilius Gallicus," Arctos 18 (1984): 149-156 = Roman Papers V, ed. A.R. Birley (Oxford, 1988): 514-20 |
| Birley, A., "The Emperor Septimius Severus," History Today 17 (1967): 667-673 • Silv. 4.5 probably refers to the emperor's grandfather. |
| Coleman, K.M., "An African at Rome: Statius, Silvae 4.5," The Proeeedings of the African Classical Associations 17 (1983): 85-99 |
| Aricò, G., "La scuola di Papinio," Atti del congresso internazionale di studi vespasianei, Rieti settembre 1979 (Rieti : Centro di studi varroniani, 1981), 315-323 • Interpretation of Silv. 5.3.146-194. |
| Clinton, K., "Publius Papinius St[---] at Eleusis," Transactions of the American Philological Association 103 (1972): 79-82 (with plates) • Kirchner's restoration to St [eiriea] in Inscriptiones Graecae II² 3919 must be rejected. Read Στ[ατιον], referring to Statius the father. His victories at the Nemean, Pythian, and Isthmian games make it plausible that the Areopagus would dedicate a statue to him in the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, which Roman guests at Athens often visited. |
| Dilke, O.A.W., "The rank of Statius' father," summary in Proceedings of the Classical Association 50 (1953): 29-30 |
| Fantham, E., "Chironis Exemplum: On Teachers and Surrogate Fathers in Achilleid and Silvae," Hermathena 167 (1999): 59-70 |
| Gossage, A.J., "Papinius, the Father of Statius," Romanitas 6/7 (1965): 171-179 |
| Holford-Strevens, Leofranc, "In search of Poplios Papinios Statios," Hermathena 168 (2000): 39-54 • Statius' education by his father and familiarity with Greek literature (described in Silv. 5.3), when compared with surviving Latin commentaries and school curricula for Greek literature, suggests that the poet's works were heavily influenced by the Greek literary tradition. More than other Silver Latin writers, Statius' writings should be diligently read for their Greek sources and their Greek intertextualities. |
| McCullough, Anna, "One Wife, One Love: Coniugalis amor, Grief and Masculinity in Statius' Silvae," pp. 175-91 of Dana LaCourse Munteanu et al., edd., Emotion, Genre and Gender in Classical Antiquity (London: Bristol Classical Pr., 2011) • Men in the Silvae who display devotion to their wives in life and extreme grief at their death are part of a broader contemporary discourse on masculinity at Rome. • Reviews: Lateiner, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.01.04 |
| McNelis, C., "Greek Grammarians and Roman Society during the Early Empire: Statius' Father and his Contemporaries," ClAnt 21.1 (2002): 67-94 • The curriculum of Statius' father is thus representative of Greek intellectual activity in early imperial Rome. The seemingly strange selection of authors was geared towards marking off the élite from the non-élite. |
| Önnerfors, A., Vaterporträts in der römischen Poesie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Horaz, Statius und Ausonius, Acta inst. Rom. Regni Sueciae Ser. in-8º, 13 (Stockholm: Astrom 1974) • Review: Fridh, Gnomon 49 (1977): 76-78 |
| Traglia, A., "Il maestro di Stazio," Rivista di cultura classica e medievale 7 (Mélanges Schiaffini) (1965): 1128-1134 • Influence and what we know of the father. |
| Zurli, Loriano, "Per una discussione 'metodica' di Stat. Silv. V 3, 127," Myrtia: Revista de Filología Clásica 31 (2016) 413-17 • "Velie graius" at Silv. 5.3.127 is an embedded gloss. Read "Graia refert Elea esse, unus qua puppe magister / excidit." |
| Aricò, G., "Stazio e Arrunzio Stella," Aevum 39 (1965): 345-47 • Their affinity is in conjunction with the Silvae, not the Thebaid. |
| Dölling, Einige Notizen über den Dichter Stella aus Patavium [in Latin], Gymnasiums-Programm (Plauen, 1840) |
| Malaspina, A., "De Lucio Verginio Rufo et Lucio Arruntio Stella epigrammatum scriptoribus," Athenaeum n.s. 2 (1924): 132-40. • Review: Schuster Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft (1927): 143. |
| Sartori, F., "La ricchezza di Stella e Violentilla," Index 13 (1985): 201-221 • Origin, importance, and nature of the possessions of the two. |
| Bishop, J.H., "The Ghost of a longaevus parens," Classical Review 10 (1968): 8 • Critique of H. Erkell, "Statius' Silvae 4.1 und das Templum gentis Flaviae," Eranos 56 (1958) 173-82. |
| Brugnoli, G., "Longaevus parens," AFLL 2 (1964-65): 71-78 • Silv. 4.1.38 makes an allusion to a temple of the gens Flavia, the ara of the magnus parens, and longaevus Vespasian. |
| Erkell, H., "Statius' Silvae 4.1 und das Templum gentis Flaviae," Eranos 56 (1958): 173-82 • The longaevus parens is Vespasian and the ara parentis the templum Flaviae. Also mentioned in Martial, Book 9. See J.H. Bishop, "The Ghost of a longaevus parens," Classical Review 10 (1968) 8. |
| White, P., "Notes on Two Statian Prosopa," Classical Philology 68 (1973): 279-284 • Notes on the pietas of M. Vitorius Marcellus in Silv. 4.praef. and Silv. 4.4 were meant to allay Domitian's fear of his ambition. In Silv. 5.2, Statius seems to suggest that Vettius Crispinus' mother set out to poison him to secure his inheritance. |
| Delarue, F., "Un ami meconnu de Stace, Vivius Maximus," SicGymn 19 (1976): 173-203 • Read "Vivius" for "Vibius". |
| Keil, W., "Vibius Maximus und Florus," BPhW 45 (1919): 1076-80 • According to Silv. 4.7.55: he wrote an epitome of Livy, with Stoic leanings. • Review: Schuster Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft (1927): 143 |
| Syme, R., "C. Vibius Maximus, Prefect of Egypt," Historia 6 (1957): 480-7 • Epigraphical and literary sources (S., Pliny the Younger) about his career and life. |
| White, P., "Vivius Maximus, the Friend of Statius," Historia 22 (1973): 295-301 • The Vivii Maximi of Silv. 4.7, Martial 11.7, and Pliny the Younger Ep.3.2 are different people. |
| Mommsen, Th., "Vitorius Marcellus," Hermes 13 (1878): 428-30 |
| White, P., "Notes on Two Statian Prosopa," Classical Philology 68 (1973): 279-284 • Notes on the pietas of M. Vitorius Marcellus in Silv. 4.praef. and Silv. 4.4 were meant to allay Domitian's fear of his ambition. In Silv. 5.2, Statius seems to suggest that Vettius Crispinus' mother set out to poison him to secure his inheritance. |