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P. Papinius Statius Volume V

Siluae, Readings and Conjectures

Edited By: Mike J. Edwards, J. B. Hall

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The first-century AD poet Statius wrote epics and the Siluae, a collection of occasional poems. This volume provides a comprehensive conspectus of manuscript readings of the Siluae, with a complete register of conjectures by modern scholars.

Publius Papinius Statius was born in Naples (Neapolis) around the middle of the first century AD, the son of a distinguished professional poet. Statius’ own…

Publius Papinius Statius was born in Naples (Neapolis) around the middle of the first century AD, the son of a distinguished professional poet. Statius’ own oeuvre was considerable: an epic in twelve books on the theme of the Seven against Thebes; an unfinished epic on the story of Achilles of which one book and a portion of a second survive; and five books of Siluae comprising thirty-two occasional poems written for rich patrons.

This volume provides a comprehensive conspectus of readings of the manuscripts of the Siluae, together with a complete register of known conjectures by modern scholars.

J. B. Hall is Hildred Carlile Professor of Latin Emeritus of the University of London. He has published extensively on Claudian, Ovid and John of Salisbury.

Annabel Ritchie received an MA with Distinction in Classics from the University of London. She was a freelance copy-editor of learned journals and a translator of Latin texts.

M. J. Edwards is Professor of Classics and Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published widely on the Attic Orators, Plutarch and the Latin philosophical works of Francis Bacon. He is co-author (with J. B. Hall) of the editio princeps of Pierfrancesco Giustolo’s commentary on Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae.