Publius Papinius Statius was born in Naples (Neapolis) around the middle of the first century AD, the son of a distinguished professional poet. Statius' own oeuvre was considerable: an epic in twelve books on the theme of the Seven against Thebes; an unfinished epic on the story of Achilles of which one book and a portion of a second survive; and five books of Siluae comprising thirty-two occasional poems written for rich patrons.This volume presents a text of the Siluae with a facing translation, preceded by a chronologically arranged introduction to the transmission of the text, and a bibliography of editions and relevant secondary literature.
J. B. Hall is Hildred Carlile Professor of Latin Emeritus of the University of London. He has published extensively on Claudian, Ovid and John of Salisbury.Annabel Ritchie received an MA with Distinction in Classics from the University of London. She was a freelance copy-editor of learned journals and a translator of Latin texts.M. J. Edwards is Professor of Classics and Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published widely on the Attic Orators, Plutarch and the Latin philosophical works of Francis Bacon. He is co-author (with J. B. Hall) of the editio princeps of Pierfrancesco Giustolo's commentary on Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae.
