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| Wagenvoort, H., "Ad Silv. 1.1: Adnotationes," in P. de Jonge et al., ed., Ut pictura poesis: Studia Latina P.J. Enk oblata (Leiden: Brill, 1955): 195-203 |
| Waite, S.V.F., "Metrical Indices to Statius' Achilleid," Hephaistos 1 (1970): 28-70 |
| 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 |
| Walter, F., "Zu lateinischen Dichtern," Wiener Studien 45 (1926-27): 109-116, 239-245 • Critical studies of many passages, including Ach. 2.74; Silv. 4.3.154; Theb. 9.895. |
| Walter, H., ed., C.S. Lewis: Collected Letters, Vol. 3 (London, 2007). • Discussion of sponsus. On pp. 658-59: Theb. 2.230-35 and 2.255; pp. 660-61: Theb. 2.256 and 8.626-27; pp. 663-65: Theb. 2.233 and 8.626-27; pp. 718-19, esp. n. 80: 2.230-5. On Dante and Statius, pp. 718-19 and 1658-61. |
| Ware, C.M., "The poetics of Claudian: Panegyric in the ancient epic tradition," diss. Trinity College Dublin, 2006 • A poet who specifically associates himself with Homer, Ennius, and Vergil, and whose work alludes to the epics of Ovid, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, and Statius, Claudian's reliance on their works and his varied techniques for the incorporation of allusion is essential to the full understanding and appreciation of his poetry. |
| Wasdin, Katherine, "The Reluctant Bride: Greek and Roman Wedding Poems," PhD Dissertation (Yale University, 2009) • Summary in ProQuest dissertations database, ID 305042031; Discussion of Sappho, tragic wedding songs and choral odes, Aristophanic wedding songs, Theocritus Id. 18, Catullus 61, 62 and 64, Seneca's Medea, and the wedding poems of Statius and of Claudian. |
| Wasserstein, A., ed., An Edition of Book 1 of the Silvae of Statius with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Dissertation, Birbeck College, University of London, 1952 |
| Wasserstein, A., "The Manuscript Tradition of Statius' Silvae," Classical Quarterly 47 (1953): 69-78 • The scholia of Paris lat. 8282 suggest a multiple tradition. We ought accept readings of Corsini of the Matritensis, which perhaps comes from Poggio's ms. See P. Thielscher, "Remarks on the Manuscript Tradition of Statius' Silvae," Classical Quarterly 51 (1957) 47-52. |
| Wasserstein, A., "Politian's Commentary on the Silvae of Statius," Scriptorium 10 (1956): 83-9 |
| Wasserstein, A., "The manuscript tradition of Statius' Silvae," Classical Quarterly 52 (1958): 111-112 • Response to criticisms of P. Thielscher (1957). Feels the old scholia of Paris lat. 8282 might contain pre-renaissance notes. |
| Watson, Patricia A., "Martial on the Wedding of Stella and Violentilla," Latomus 58.2 (1999): 348-56 • A comparison of Martial 6.21.10 and Silv. 1.2 shows a slight lack of respect for Stella on the part of Martial, and that Martial plays more on Stella's poetry. |
| Watson, Patricia A., "Martial on the Wedding of Stella and Violentilla," Latomus 58.2 (1999): 348-56 • A comparison of Martial 6.21.10 and Silv. 1.2 shows a slight lack of respect for Stella on the part of Martial, and that Martial plays more on Stella's poetry. |
| Watt, W.S., "Notes on Latin epic poetry," Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London 31 (1984): 153-70 • Textual and grammatical notes on Lucan, Silius Italicus and Statius. |
| Watt, W.S., "Notes on Statius' Thebaid," Eranos 85 (1987): 49-54 |
| Watt, W.S., "Notes on Statius, Silvae," Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft n.F. 14 (1988): 159-70 |
| Watt, W.S., "Ten notes on Statius' Silvae," Illinois Classical Studies 17 (1992): 79-82 • On Silv. 1.4.22-5, 2.6.10-12, 2.6.93-5, 3.5.48-9, 4.1.27-32, 4.2.5-11, 4.9.48-50, 5.1.4-6, 5.2.164-7, 5.3.262-4 |
| Watt, W.S., "Notes on Latin poetry: Ovid, Lucan, Silius Italicus, Statius, Martial, Rutilius, and Fragmentary Latin poets," Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London 42 (1997-1998): 145-58 |
| Watt, W.S., "Notes on the epic poems of Statius," Classical Quarterly 50.2 (2000): 516-25 • Notes on: Theb. 1.472-476, 2.535-536, 2.624-625, 2.630-632, 4.292-294, 4.317-319, 5.29-32, 5.116-117, 5.326-329, 5.633-637, 6.332-335, 6.355-361, 7.10-12, 7.306-308, 7.422-423, 7.625-627, 8.225-227, 8.267-270, 8.616-619, 8.622-624, 9.805-811, 10.439-411, 10.445-446, 12.5-10; Ach. 1.124-125, 1.270-272, 1.379-381, 1.753-755, 1.889-891, 2.101-102.. |
| 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. |
| Weaver, P.R.C., "Confusing Names: Abascantus & Statius, Silvae 5.1," Échos du monde classique = Classical Views 13.3 (1994): 333-64 |
| Weber, La préciosité de pensée et d'expression dans les Silves de Stace, Mémoire de diplome et d'ét. sup. Fac. des Lettres de Paris, 1936. Summary in Revue des études latines (1936): 390 |
| 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. |
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| 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 |
| Welcker, F.G., "Die Späteren Thebaiden, auch die des Statius," Allgemeine Schulzeitung 2 (1832): 158 ff. = Kleine Schriften, vol. 1 (1844): 395-401 |
| Wenskus, Otta, "Von Statius zu Dante: Amphiaraos' Hadessturz und das Beben des Läuterungsberges," A&A 60 (2014) 141-151 • The earthquake at Purgatorio 20.124-138 recalls Amphiaraus' entry to the underworld. |
| Wernsdorf, J.C., "Ad Papinii Statii Thebaida et Achilleida Animadversiones selectae," Museum criticum continens praesertim varias lectiones, observationes et dissertationes ad auctores veteres graecos et latinos (ed. Stosch) 1 (1774): 86-120 • Emendations of Theb. 1.22, 23, 27, 44, 55, 103, 197, 201, 227, 229, 439, 485, 652, 700; 2.213, 418, 556, 671; 3.61, 163, 283; 4.353, 626, 686, 698, 697; 5.106, 135, 389; 6.201, 213, 217, 387, 496, 663, 744; 7.75, 801; 8.292, 481; 9.148, 218, 338; 10.306, 841; 11.427, 496; 12.423, 489; 12.529, 750; Ach. 1.99, 448, 780. |
| Wesseling, Peter, untitled observation, in C.H. Frotscher, ed., Petri Wesselingii Observationum variorum libri duo, vol. 2 (1832): 171-72 • At Silv. 2.1.230, read "Nec dirae comes ille viae." |
| Wessner, Paul, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 113 (1902): 213-4 |
| Wessner, Paul, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 139 (1908): 186-9 |
| Wessner, Paul, Jahrbuch für Altertumswissenschaft 188 (1921): 228-234 |
| Wessner, Paul, "Lucan, Statius, und Juvenal bei den römischen Grammatikern," Philologische Wochenschrift 47 (1929): 296-303, 328-35 • Lucan and Statius had short, immediate success; Juvenal didn't. The reason is that schools didn't want to change their authors. Lucan caught attention again in the end of the third century AD, Juvenal in the middle of the fourth, and Statius at the end of the fourth. See H.J. Thompson, "Lucan, Statius, and Juvenal in the Early Centuries," Classical Quarterly 22 (1928) 24-27. |
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| Wheeler, Stephen M., "The Underworld Opening of Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 125 (1995): 113-34 • Claudian's allusion in the poem's opening to the conventions of martial epic through parallelism with the beginning of Statius, Theb. 8 is part of a program to epicize his erotic material and conversely eroticize his epic models. This conflation reflects on a stylistic level the symbolic equivalence between martial and erotic violence that enables the rape of Proserpina to be a sacrificial substitute for war between Pluto and Jupiter. |
| Whitbread, L.G., trans., Fulgentius the Mythographer (Columbus, OH, 1971): 235-44 |
| White, Heather, "Notes on Statius' Thebaid," Myrtia 22 (2007): 331-39 • Discussions of Shackelton Bailey's 2003 Loeb, including discussions of Theb. 1.231-232, 2.32-34, 3.559-561, 5.330-334, 5.346-347, 5.741-743, 6.283-285, 6.340-341, 6.602-605, 6.921-923, 7.700-702, 8.127-130, 8.544-547, 8.633-635, 10.18-19, 10.104-106, 10.696-697, 11.295-296, and 11.548-552. |
| White, Heather, "Further Studies in the Texts of Latin Poets," Minerva 21 (2008): 101-17 • Notes on passages in Avianus and Silvae 1.1.63-65, 1.3.29-33, 1.3.70-74, 1.6.70-71, 2.2.150-153, 2.3.27-30, 3.3.76-78, 3.3.179-180, 4.1.25-35, 4.4.70-73, 4.5.9-12, 4.5.25-28, 4.8.14-16, 5.2.107-110, 5.2.165-167, and 5.3.231-233. |
| White, P., Aspects of Non-Imperial Patronage in the Works of Martial and Statius, Diss. Harvard U., 1972. Summary in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 77 (1973): 258-60 |
| White, P., "Vivius Maximus, the Friend of Statius," Historia 22 (1973): 295-301 • The Vivii Maximi of Silv. 4.7, Martial 11.7, and Pliny the Younger Ep.3.2 are different people. |
| White, P., "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. |
| White, P., "The presentation and dedication of the Silvae and the Epigrams," Journal of Roman Studies 64 (1974): 40-61 • Martial wishes to honor the dedicated; S. aims at garnering patronage. |
| White, P., "The Friends of Martial, Statius, and Pliny and the Dispersal of Patronage," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 79 (1975): 265-300 • Members of their groups rarely overlapped. At this time, there were no single patron-groups as there were under Augustus. |
| White, P., rev. of O. Pederzani, Il talamo, l'albero e lo specchio. Saggio di commento a Stat. Silv. I 2, II 3, III 4, Scrinia 8 (Bari: Edipuglia, 1995), Gnomon 70.8 (1998): 710-11 |
| Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von, "Lesefrüchte," Hermes 33 (1898) 513-14 • On the scholium, "dicunt poetam ista omnia a Graeco poeta Antimacho deduxisse," at Theb. 3.466 in Barth's edition. |
| Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von, "Lesefrüchte," Hermes 34 (1899) 601-39 • On problems with Jahnke's edition of Lactantius Placidus. |
| Wilkins, A.S., "Barth's Mss. of the Thebais of Statius," Classical Review 10 (1896): 14-15 |
| Williams, G., "Statius and Vergil: Defensive Imitation," Vergil at 2000 (New York, 1996): 207-224 • Statius felt an anxiety toward Virgil. Essential problems about poetic imitation. |
| Williams, R., "Nestor's war effort (Stat. Ach. 1.422)," Classical Quarterly 36 (1936): 280-83 • The line "murorum... Tendunt" is important because Pylos was the center of rope manufacture. |
| Williams, R.D., "The Worcester fragments of Statius' Thebaid," Classical Review (1947): 88-90 |
| Williams, R.D., "Two Manuscripts of Statius' Thebaid," Classical Quarterly 42 (1948): 105-112 |
| Williams, R.D., "The Vienna fragment of Statius' Thebaid," Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 23 (1949): 151-3 |
| Williams, R.D., "Some Passages in Statius," Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 181 (1950-1951): 16-18 • On Theb. 10.935-9, Ach. 1.583-6 and Silv. 5.4.3-6. |
| 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. |
| Williams, R.D., "The scansion of deest in Statius," Summary in Proceedings of the Classical Association 48 (1951): 32 |
| Williams, R.D., ed., Thebaidos liber decimus, Mnemosyne suppl. 22 (Leiden: Brill, 1972) [with commentary] • Reviews: Courtney, Journal of Roman Studies 63 (1973): 308-309; Venini 1973 |
| Willis, J.A., "The Silvae of Statius and Their Editors," Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada = Revue de la Société Canadienne des études Classiques 20 (1966): 305-324 • Examines Silv. 1.3 at ten points to illustrate the corruptness of Matritensis 3678 and to defend older, skeptical editors against newer, conservative ones. Plea for returning to emphasis on reading and writing Greek and Latin, at least in advanced programs, rather than on metaclassics, the study of secondary materials. |
| Willis, W.H., "Historic Contests in the Epic," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association (1941): 391-417< |
| Wilson, H.L., The Metaphor in the Epic Poems of Publius Papinius Statius (Baltimore, 1898) |
| Wiman, G., "Papiniana," Eranos (1937): 1-21 • Critical notes to Silv. 1.praef.5; 1.2.105, 2.233 ff., 4.11, 4.58, 4.98, 5.10; 3.2.25; 4.44.78; 5.2.107, 3.41, 3.64, 3.92, 3.100, 3.112, 3.176, 5.1, 5.12; Theb. 2.160, 5.236, 10.525, 788, 932. |
| Wimsatt, J., "The sources of Chaucer's Seys and Alcyone," MAev 36 (1967): 231-241 • Ovid's influence has been exaggerated, while Virgil's and Statius' have been neglected. |
| Winterfeld, Paul von, "Fulgentianum," Philologus 57 (1898): 509 • On Fulgentius Planciades and the name Surculus. |
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| Wolff, É. "Les Adversaria de Caspar von Barth," Latomus 56 (1997): 40-53 |
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| Wölfflin, Eduard, "Zu den Statiusscholien," Philologus 24 (1866): 156-58 • Discussion of Lactantian notes in Munich, clm 6396 and 19482, and the Bamberg manuscript that are not in Jahnke. According to Sweeney, the article is "valuable for reconstructing the Greek quotes in" Lactantius Placidus. |
| 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. |
| Woods, D. J., Statius' Silvae and John's Apocalypse: Some Parallels and Contrastive Motifs, PhD Dissertation (Dallas Theological Seminary, 1991) • Summary in Dissertation Abstracts 52 (1991-92): 1729A |
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| 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. |