Statius "Siluae" 3.2: Reading Travel

• Autores: Michael C.J. Putnam
• Localización: Illinois classical studies, ISSN 0363-1923, Vol. 42, Nº. 1, 2017, págs. 83-139
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay offers a close examination of Statius's Silvae 3.2, a propempticon for Maecius Celer. Using earlier Latin farewell poems as intellectual background, I illustrate the poet's originality. In particular I watch how he makes use of different genres, such as lyric and epic, and especially of the Aeneid, as he crafts a meditation on a series of curricula vitae that illuminate Celer's own voyage. Figures involved include Cleopatra and Alexander the Great as well as Virgil himself and his characters, Aeneas and Dido.