Silvae IV

Publius Papinius Statius

Original title: Silvae

earliest edition we have, 1988 E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1990 161 pages

BCP classic commentaries on Latin and Greek texts

Statius' Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 AD. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, sends thanks, admires a memorable scene. The verse is light in touch, with a distinct picture quality. Statius gives us in these impromptu poems clear images of Domitian's Rome. Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the...

Where to get it

Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title

This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.

Change library
You pick this yourself. We don't guess it from your location, and we don't record where you are.

How it reads

Pace We don't know yet not analysed yet
Density We don't know yet not analysed yet
Tone We don't know yet not analysed yet

Your log

Sign in to log this book — your log is private to you.

What readers call it

No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.

Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.

Content warnings

Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.

No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.

Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.

Add a content warning

This book in English

Bill Shepherd 1 printing we hold · 2007 · Anvil Press Poetry

Which translation should you read?

Editions we hold

Silvae paperback · 2007 · Anvil Press Poetry · 120 pages · 9780856463877
Silvae hardcover · 2003 · Harvard University Press · 438 pages · 9780674996045
Selve = edition · 2000 · A. Dadò · 363 pages
Silvae hardcover · 1998 · K.G. SAUR VERLAG · 224 pages · 9783322001887
Silvae IV edition · 1998 · Bristol Classical Press · 244 pages
Estacio, Silvas III. edition · 1992 · Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos · 426 pages
P. Papini Stati Silvae edition · 1990 · E Typographeo Clarendoniano · 161 pages
Silvae IV edition · 1988 · Clarendon Press · 244 pages

Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.