Brill’s Companion To Statius

Brill’s Companion to Statius Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bccs Brill’s Companion to Statius Edited by W. J. Dominik, C. E. Newlands, and K. Gervais LEIDEN | BOSTON Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brill’s companion to Statius / edited by W. J. Dominik, C. E. Newlands, and K. Gervais.   pages cm — (Brill’s companions in classical studies)  ISBN 978-90-04-21789-8 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-28470-8 (e-book)  1. Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)—Criticism and interpretation. I. Dominik, William J. II. Newlands, Carole Elizabeth. III. Gervais, Kyle. IV. Series: Brill’s companions in classical studies.  PA6698.B75 2015  871’.01—dc23 2014046302 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual ‘Brill’ typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 1872-3357 isbn 978-90-04-21789-8 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-28470-8 (e-book) Copyright 2015 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Contents Preface ix Texts and Abbreviations xi Notes on Contributors xiii part 1 Introduction  1 Reading Statius 3 Carole E. Newlands, Kyle Gervais, and William J. Dominik part 2 Beginnings 2 Statius on Invocation and Inspiration 31 K. Sara Myers 3 The Silvae: Poetics of Impromptu and Cultural Consumption 54 Gianpiero Rosati 4 The Beginnings of the Achilleid 73 Randall T. Ganiban part 3 Social and Cultural Matters   5 Creating the Distinguished Addressee: Literary Patronage in the Works of Statius 91 Meike Rühl 6 Gift and Society in the Works of Statius 106 Neil Coffee vi contents 7 Negative Stereotypes of Wealth in the Works of Statius 123 Bruce Gibson 8 Family and Kinship in the Works of Statius 139 Neil W. Bernstein part 4 Transgressive Poetics: The Achilleid 9 Statius’ Achilleid: The Paradoxical Epic 157 Peter J. Davis 10 Intertext, Metapoetry, and Visuality in the Achilleid 173 Christopher Chinn 11 Similes and Gender in the Achilleid 189 Charles McNelis part 5 Conflict, Power, and Death in the Thebaid 12 “War Came in Disarray . . .” (Thebaid 7.616): Statius and the Depiction of Battle 207 Rhiannon Ash 13 Parent-Child Conflict in the Thebaid 221 Kyle Gervais 14 Transgressing Boundaries of the Unthinkable: Sophocles, Ovid, Vergil, Seneca, and Homer Refracted in Statius’ Thebaid 240 Frederick Ahl 15 Similes and Their Programmatic Role in the Thebaid 266 William J. Dominik vii contents 16 The Constitutional Status of Euripidean and Statian Theseus: Some Aspects of the Criticism of Absolute Power in the Thebaid 291 Cecilia Criado 17 Dead Woman Walking: Jo