Author:Publius Papinius Statius

Publius Papinius Statius
(45–96)

Publius Papinius Statius

Works

Poetry

• Thebaid (80–92 CE)
• Silvae (89–96 CE)
• Achilleid (unfinished)

Compilations

• Statius, with an English translation, 2 vols., translated by John Henry Mozley (Loeb Classical Library)

  Volume I (1928)

  Volume II (1928) (transcription project)

Fragments

• "Fragment of a poem on the War in Germany", translated by John Henry Mozley (1928)

Works about Statius

Encyclopedic articles

• “Statius, P. Papinius”, by William Ramsay in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Statius, Publius Papinius," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Reference

• A Concordance of Statius, by Roy J. Deferrari & M. Clement Eagan (1942) (external scan)

Doctoral theses

• The metaphor in the epic poems of Publius Papinius Statius [Ph.D. Thesis] by Harry Langford Wilson (1898) (external scan)
• A study of P. Papinius Statius' Thebais and his imitation of Vergil's Aeneid [Ph.D. Thesis] by Ernest Darwin Daniels (1906) (external scan)
• The identification of the manuscripts of Catullus cited in Statius' edition of 1566 [Ph.D. Thesis] by Berthold Louis Ullman (1908) (external scan)
• The influence of Statius upon Chaucer [Ph.D. Thesis] by Boyd Ashby Wise (1911) (external scan)
• The influence of art on description in the poetry of P. Papinius Statius [Ph.D. Thesis] by Thomas Shearer Duncan (1914) (external scan)

Masters theses

• The appreciation of landscape and the fine arts by Statius in the Silvae [M.A. Thesis] by Alma Bernice Pickett (1913) (external scan)
• Certain elements of obscurity in the style of Statius in the Silvae [M.A. Thesis] by Harry Bryson Thomas (1913) (external scan)
• A critical and exegetical commentary on the "Epithalamium in stellam et violentillam" of statius [M.Litt. Thesis] by Mildred Elvira Norcross (1913) (external scan)
• A critical and exegetical commentary on the "Hercules Epitrapezios" of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Rose Gardner (1913) (external scan)
• The religious and mythological elements in Statius' Silvae [M.A. Thesis] by Anna Byers (1913) (external scan)
• The manuscripts of the Silvae of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Katherine Lindsay (1914) (external scan)
• Roman character and spirit as shown in the Silvae of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Shirley Howard Weber (1914) (external scan)
• Figures of speech in the Silvae of Statius, Books I.–III. [M.A. Thesis] by Winnefred Katheryn Potter (1916) (external scan)
• The Epithalamium of Statius and other epithalamia [M.A. Thesis] by Ruth Pauline Nichols (1918) (external scan)
• Geographical allusions in the Silvae of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Ruth Henrietta Smead (1918) (external scan)
• The hexameter of Statius' Silvae [M.A. Thesis] by Jean Marjorie Deming (1918) (external scan)
• Historical allusions in the Silvae of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Mary Margaret Chilson (1918) (external scan)
• Mythology in the Silvae of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Effie Clarissa Paine (1918) (external scan)
• Social life and tendencies as shown in the Silvae of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Rose Bullard Chew (1918) (external scan)
• Social conditions at Rome as found in the Silvae of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Dorothy Catherine Hahn (1919) (external scan)
• Metaphors in the Silvae of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Ruth Esther Peterson (1920) (external scan)
• The syntax of the dative case in the Silvae of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Ida Marian Jenkins (1919) (external scan)
• Parallels and coincidences in Statius' Silvae, Silvae I, and Virgil's Aeneid [M.A. Thesis] by Louise French (1920) (external scan)
• Rhetorical figures in the Silvae of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Gainor Wilson Aitken (1920) (external scan)
• Some peculiarities of the vocabulary of Statius in the Silvae [M.A. Thesis] by Eleanor Christina Ahlstrom (1920) (external scan)
• The appreciation of art, nature and beauty in the Silvae of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Christine Elizabeth Swanson (1921) (external scan)
• The flattery of the Emperor Domitian in the Silvae of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Carrie Evelyn Haney (1921) (external scan)
• Greek influence on the diction of Statius' Silvae [M.A. Thesis] by Fondalite Lowry Eby (1921) (external scan)
• The influence of Statius on European literature [M.A. Thesis] by Irene Doris McCullough (1921) (external scan)
• The portrayal of social life of Rome in the Silvae of Statius [M.A. Thesis] by Allie Lee Brooks (1921) (external scan)
• The use of ellipsis in Statius' Silvae [M.A. Thesis] by Edith Gamble (1921) (external scan)
• The use of the parenthesis in Statius' Silvae [M.A. Thesis] by Lloita Higbee Glick (1921) (external scan)