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UNINA9910780060603321 |
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Autore |
Newlands Carole Elizabeth |
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Titolo |
Statius' Silvae and the poetics of empire / / Carole E. Newlands [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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1-107-12484-0 |
0-511-02000-7 |
1-280-43377-9 |
0-511-17626-0 |
0-511-15702-9 |
0-511-48232-9 |
0-511-04477-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (356 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Occasional verse, Latin - History and criticism |
Laudatory poetry, Latin - History and criticism |
Imperialism in literature |
Emperors in literature |
Rome History Domitian, 81-96 Historiography |
Rome In literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-340) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Embodying the statue: Silvae 1.1 and 4.6 -- Engendering the house: Silvae 1.2 and 3.4 -- Imperial pastoral: Vopiscus' villa in Silvae 1.3 -- Dominating nature: Pollio's villa in Silvae 2.2 -- Reading the Thebaid: Silvae 1.5 -- The Emperor's Saturnalia: Silvae 1.6 -- Dining with the emperor: Silvae 4.2 -- Building the imperial highway: Silvae 4.3. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Statius' Silvae, written late in the reign of Domitian (AD 81-96), are a new kind of poetry that confronts the challenge of imperial majesty or private wealth by new poetic strategies and forms. As poems of praise, they delight in poetic excess whether they honour the emperor or the poet's friends. Yet extravagant speech is also capacious speech. It |
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