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Anger manages everything badly. It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly is wickedness...


Biography

Name: Publius Papinius Statius
Variant Name: Publius Papinius Statius
Birth Date: c. 45
Death Date: c. 96
Nationality: Roman
Gender: Male

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Biography of Publius Papinius Statius
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In the twenty-first canto of the Purgatorio, Dante and his guide Virgil encounter the poet Statius, who introduces himself to the Florentine master (Purgatorio 21.91-93): Stazio la gente ancor di là mi noma:    cantai de Tebe, e poi...


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Publius Papinius Statius (ca. 45-96) was a Roman poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature, born in Naples, Italy. Besides his poetry, he is best known for his appearance as a major character in the Purgatory section of Dante's epic poem The Divine...


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The Virginia Quarterly Review
Statius, Volume 2: Thebaid, Books 1-7, and Statius, Volume 3: Thebaid, Books 8-12, and Achilleid
10/01/2004: 349 words, approx. 1 pages
Statius, Volume 2: Thebaid, Books 1-7, and Statius, Volume 3: Thebald, Books 8-12, and Achilleid, by Publius Statius, edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey. Harvard, February 2004. $21.50 each Statius devoted twelve years to the composition of his Thebaid, the epic...
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The Historian
The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius.(Review) (book review)
06/22/2000: 536 words, approx. 2 pages
The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius. By Debra Hershkowitz.(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 346. $80.00.) In this enormously learned first book, the author presents a series of essays on madness--in Vergil's Aeneid, in Homer, in Ovid's Metamorphoses,...
 


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