Statius, I, Silvae

Statius

Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

    Introduction

    Recent Scholarship on the Silvae by Kathleen M. Coleman

    Abbreviations



    Silvae

    Book I

    Prefatory Notes

    Statius to His Friend Stella

    1. The Statue of Domitian

    2. Epithalamium in Honour of Stella and Violentilla

    3. The Villa of Manilius Vopiscus

    4. To Rutilius Gallicus

    5. The Baths of Claudius Etruscus

    6. The Kalends of December

    Book II

    Prefatory Notes

    Statius to His Friend Melior

    1. Glaucias

    2. The Villa of Pollius Felix

    3. The Tree of Atedius Melior

    4. The Parrot of the Same

    5. The Tame Lion

    6. Consolation to Flavius Ursus

    7. To Polla on Lucan's Birthday

    Book III

    Prefatory Notes

    Statius to His Friend Pollius

    1. The Hercules at Surrentum

    2. Send-off to Maecius Celer

    3. Consolation to Claudius Etruscus

    4. The Hair of Flavius Earinus

    5. To His Wife Claudia

    Book IV

    Prefatory Notes

    Statius to His Friend Marcellus

    1. The Seventeenth Consulship of Domitian

    2. To the Emperor Domitian

    3. The Domitian Way

    4. To Vitorius Marcellus

    5. Ode to Septimius Severus

    6. The Hercules Statuette

    7. Ode to Vibius Maximus

    8. Poem of Congratulation

    9. Jesting Hendecasyllabics

    Book V

    Prefatory Notes

    Statius to His Friend Abascantus

    1. On the Death of Priscilla

    2. Praises of Crispinus

    3. Lament for His Father

    4. Sleep

    5. A Lament for His Boy

    Critical Appendix

    Index

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D. R. Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Harvard University.