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Domitian’s Banquet (Statius’ Silvae 4.2)
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Abstract
This chapter offers a close reading of Poem 2 from the fourth book of the Silvae of Statius. Statius’ brilliant word usage in describing a banquet at Domitian’s palace and the architectural magnificence of the emperor’s along with, more generally, the poet’s use of intertexts evoke Virgil’s poetry, as well as Horace’s. Here Statius pushes language to the limits of praise. And yet the recurrent theme in Silvae 4.2 of Dido’s welcome banquet for Aeneas, along with echoes of Virgil’s exiled goatherd of Eclogue 1, Meliboeus, provide a tragic reminder of the precarity of human life and happiness as well as of the limits of poetic power.
Title: Domitian’s Banquet (Statius’ Silvae 4.2)
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Abstract
This chapter offers a close reading of Poem 2 from the fourth book of the Silvae of Statius.
Statius’ brilliant word usage in describing a banquet at Domitian’s palace and the architectural magnificence of the emperor’s along with, more generally, the poet’s use of intertexts evoke Virgil’s poetry, as well as Horace’s.
Here Statius pushes language to the limits of praise.
And yet the recurrent theme in Silvae 4.
2 of Dido’s welcome banquet for Aeneas, along with echoes of Virgil’s exiled goatherd of Eclogue 1, Meliboeus, provide a tragic reminder of the precarity of human life and happiness as well as of the limits of poetic power.
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