Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.32.5, pp. 3020-3046
 
Epic Tradition and Epigram in Statius
by R. G. Tanner, Newcastle, N.S.W.

Contents

I. Statius and the Changing Attitudes of Scholarship

3020

II. An Anti-literary Age

3023

III. Roman Romanticism

3027

IV. Problems of 'Achilleid I'

3031

V. Libellus and Epigram - the 'Silvae'

3036

VI. The Nature and Aim of the 'Silvae'

3041

VII. Conclusion

3044
Bibliography 3045

1. Editions of Statius Consulted

3045

2. Critical Discussions

3046

3. The Victorian Analogies

3046

4. Stoic Background of the Flavian Age

3046

5. Life, Environment and Events of Flavian Rome

3046

6. Recent Work

3046
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