Abstract
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1 Reading Statius -- Part 2 Beginnings -- Chapter 2 Statius on Invocation and Inspiration -- Chapter 3 The Silvae: Poetics of Impromptu and Cultural Consumption -- Chapter 4 The Beginnings of the Achilleid -- Part 3 Social and Cultural Matters -- Chapter 5 Creating the Distinguished Addressee: Literary Patronage in the Works of Statius -- Chapter 6 Gift and Society in the Works of Statius -- Chapter 7 Negative Stereotypes of Wealth in the Works of Statius -- Chapter 8 Family and Kinship in the Works of Statius -- Part 4 Transgressive Poetics: The Achilleid -- Chapter 9 Statius' Achilleid: The Paradoxical Epic -- Chapter 10 Intertext, Metapoetry, and Visuality in the Achilleid -- Chapter 11 Similes and Gender in the Achilleid -- Part 5 Conflict, Power, and Death in the Thebaid -- Chapter 12 "War Came in Disarray ..." (Thebaid 7.616): Statius and the Depiction of Battle -- Chapter 13 Parent-Child Conflict in the Thebaid -- Chapter 14 Transgressing Boundaries of the Unthinkable: Sophocles, Ovid, Vergil, Seneca, and Homer Refracted in Statius' Thebaid -- Chapter 15 Similes and Their Programmatic Role in the Thebaid -- Chapter 16 The Constitutional Status of Euripidean and Statian Theseus: Some Aspects of the Criticism of Absolute Power in the Thebaid -- Chapter 17 Dead Woman Walking: Jocasta in the Thebaid -- Part 6 Predecessors and Contemporaries -- Chapter 18 Statius' Epic Poetry: A Challenge to the Literary Past -- Chapter 19 Statius' Thebaid and Greek Tragedy: The Legacy of Thebes -- Chapter 20 Georgics 2.497 and Thebaid 1.19-20: Allusion and Inspiration -- Chapter 21 Statius and Senecan Drama -- Chapter 22 Lucan's De Bello Civili in the Thebaid -- Chapter 23 Following after Valerius: Argonautic Imagery in the Thebaid -- Chapter 24 Statius and Silius Italicus.