Mad about Winning: Epic, War and Madness in the Games of Statius' Thebaid

Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus

“…36 I follow Heinsius' and Dausqueius' praecipites (also printed in Duff ), instead of Delz's praeceptis. 37 On the madness of Amphiaraus, see Lovatt (2001).…”

“…In my opinion, is right to conclude that there is interaction among the three Flavian epicists, and offers a good examination and proof of their interrelation. For a recent discussion of links among these poets, see Lovatt (2006) on Statius and Valerius Flaccus and in this volume . the poem, we witness the bloody battle of Cannae and its aftermath.…”

“…In Virgil's Georgics, Orpheus is "the fi gure who understands and controls nature, the representative of 'scientifi c' poetry" (Thomas [1988] 253). On Orpheus as a political-prophetic uates in Flavian poetry, see Lovatt (2007). For Silius' innovation on the Orphic tradition with the Argo episode, see Spaltenstein (1990) 138.…”

“…Morson (1994) 50 Silius' games: König (2005) . 51 Homer: Postlethwaite (1995), Kelly (2007b) 383;Virgil: Duckworth (1967a), ), Feldherr (2002; Statius: Nagel (1999), Lovatt (2005). in front of them, had not Phoebus Apollo stood on the well-built tower, with destructive intent against him, but helping the Trojans.…”

“…22.319-21; Silius connects the two by combinatorial imitation at 13.163-65, where Claudius scans the body of the Capuan Taurea, who is an embodiment of the city itself; see Cowan (2007a) 13-14. 87 Desiring gaze: Fredrick (2002); Lovatt (2006); Reed (2007) especially 16-72. Relation to reading: King (2006).…”