Silvae, the Glossary
The is a collection of Latin occasional poetry in hexameters, hendecasyllables, and lyric meters by Publius Papinius Statius (c. 45 – c. 96 CE).[1]
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68 relations: Achilleid, Alcaic stanza, Alexander the Great, Alexandrian Pleiad, Asclepius, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Calends, Calliope, Carole E. Newlands, Catullus, Claudian, Council of Constance, Cumaean Sibyl, Dalmatia, Domitian, Editio princeps, Elysium, Epithalamium, Florilegium, Fortuna, Gaius Vibius Maximus, Hannibal, Hendecasyllable, Hercules, Hexameter, Horace, Hugo Grotius, Invidia, John Dryden, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Jus trium liberorum, Laurentian Library, Laus Pisonis, Leiden University, Leptis Magna, Livy, Lucan, Lyric poetry, Lysippos, Marcus Manilius, Marcus Vitorius Marcellus, Martial, Menander Rhetor, Naples, Nemesianus, Nero, Nine Lyric Poets, Occasional poetry, Otium, Ovid, ... Expand index (18 more) »
- 1st-century books in Latin
- Occasional poetry
- Poetry by Statius
Achilleid
The Achilleid (Achillēis) is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth to his death at Troy. Silvae and Achilleid are 1st-century books in Latin and poetry by Statius.
Alcaic stanza
The Alcaic stanza is a Greek lyrical meter, an Aeolic verse form traditionally believed to have been invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC.
Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
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Alexandrian Pleiad
The Alexandrian Pleiad is the name given to a group of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians in the 3rd century BC (Alexandria was at that time the literary center of the Mediterranean) working in the court of Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
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Asclepius
Asclepius (Ἀσκληπιός Asklēpiós; Aesculapius) is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
Biblioteca Nacional de España
The (National Library of Spain) is a major public library, the largest in Spain, and one of the largest in the world.
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Calends
The calends or kalends (kalendae) is the first day of every month in the Roman calendar.
Calliope
In Greek mythology, Calliope (beautiful-voiced) is the Muse who presides over eloquence and epic poetry; so called from the ecstatic harmony of her voice.
Carole E. Newlands
Carole Elizabeth Newlands (born 1949) is a scholar of Latin literature and culture.
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Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus (84 – 54 BC), known as Catullus, was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic.
Claudian
Claudius Claudianus, known in English as Claudian (Greek: Κλαυδιανός), was a Latin poet associated with the court of the Roman emperor Honorius at Mediolanum (Milan), and particularly with the general Stilicho.
Council of Constance
The Council of Constance was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church that was held from 1414 to 1418 in the Bishopric of Constance (Konstanz) in present-day Germany.
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Cumaean Sibyl
The Cumaean Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony near Naples, Italy.
Dalmatia
Dalmatia (Dalmacija; Dalmazia; see names in other languages) is one of the four historical regions of Croatia, alongside Central Croatia, Slavonia, and Istria, located on the east shore of the Adriatic Sea in Croatia.
Domitian
Domitian (Domitianus; 24 October 51 – 18 September 96) was Roman emperor from 81 to 96.
Editio princeps
In textual and classical scholarship, the editio princeps (plural: editiones principes) of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts.
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Elysium
Elysium, otherwise known as the Elysian Fields (Ἠλύσιον πεδίον., Ēlýsion pedíon) or Elysian Plains, is a conception of the afterlife that developed over time and was maintained by some Greek religious and philosophical sects and cults.
Epithalamium
An epithalamium (Latin form of Greek ἐπιθαλάμιον epithalamion from ἐπί epi "upon," and θάλαμος thalamos nuptial chamber) is a poem written specifically for the bride on the way to her marital chamber.
Florilegium
In medieval Latin, a (plural) was a compilation of excerpts or sententia from other writings and is an offshoot of the commonplacing tradition.
Fortuna
Fortuna (Fortūna, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion who, largely thanks to the Late Antique author Boethius, remained popular through the Middle Ages until at least the Renaissance.
Gaius Vibius Maximus
Gaius Vibius Maximus was an eques active during the reign of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
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Hannibal
Hannibal (translit; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.
Hendecasyllable
In poetry, a hendecasyllable (sometimes hendecasyllabic) is a line of eleven syllables.
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Hercules
Hercules is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena.
Hexameter
Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet (a "foot" here is the pulse, or major accent, of words in an English line of poetry; in Greek as well as in Latin a "foot" is not an accent, but describes various combinations of syllables).
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC),Suetonius,. commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96.
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius (10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Hugo de Groot or Huig de Groot, was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright.
Invidia
In Latin, invidia is the sense of envy, a "looking upon" associated with the evil eye, from invidere, "to look against, to look in a hostile manner." Invidia ("Envy") is one of the Seven Deadly Sins in Christian belief.
John Dryden
John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate.
Julius Caesar Scaliger
Julius Caesar Scaliger (23 April 1484 – 21 October 1558), or Giulio Cesare della Scala, was an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a major part of his career in France.
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Jus trium liberorum
The jus trium liberorum (Latin, "the right of three children"; also spelled ius), was a privilege awarded to Roman citizens who had produced at least three children or to freedpersons who had produced at least four.
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Laurentian Library
The Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana or BML) is a historic library in Florence, Italy, containing more than 11,000 manuscripts and 4,500 early printed books.
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Laus Pisonis
The Laus Pisonis (Praise of Piso) is a Latin verse panegyric of the 1st century AD in praise of a man of the Piso family.
Leiden University
Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands.
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Leptis Magna
Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean.
Livy
Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian.
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Lucan
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November AD 39 – 30 April AD 65), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba, Hispania Baetica (present-day Córdoba, Spain).
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Lyric poetry
Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.
Lysippos
Lysippos (Λύσιππος) was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC.
Marcus Manilius
Marcus Manilius originally hailing from Syria, was a Roman poet, astrologer, and author of a poem in five books called Astronomica.
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Marcus Vitorius Marcellus
Marcus Vitorius Marcellus or Vitorius Marcellus (c. 60after 105) was a Roman senator who lived in the 1st century and 2nd century.
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Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet born in Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
Menander Rhetor
Menander Rhetor (Μένανδρος Ῥήτωρ), also known as Menander of Laodicea (Μένανδρος ὁ Λαοδικεύς), was a Greek rhetorician and commentator of the 3rd or 4th century AD.
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Naples
Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.
Nemesianus
Marcus Aurelius Nemesianus was a Roman poet thought to have been a native of Carthage and flourished about AD 283.
Nero
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was a Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68.
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Nine Lyric Poets
The Nine Lyric or Melic Poets were a canonical group of ancient Greek poets esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of critical study.
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Occasional poetry
Occasional poetry is poetry composed for a particular occasion.
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Otium
Otium is a Latin abstract term which has a variety of meanings, including leisure time for "self-realization activities" such as eating, playing, relaxing, contemplation, and academic endeavors.
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Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
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Parcae
In ancient Roman religion and myth, the Parcae (singular, Parca) were the female personifications of destiny who directed the lives (and deaths) of humans and gods.
Pergamon
Pergamon or Pergamum (or; Πέργαμον), also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos, was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Aeolis.
Pietas
Pietas, translated variously as "duty", "religiosity" or "religious behavior", "loyalty", "devotion", or "filial piety" (English "piety" derives from the Latin), was one of the chief virtues among the ancient Romans.
Pindar
Pindar (Πίνδαρος; Pindarus) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.
Poggio Bracciolini
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (11 February 1380 – 30 October 1459), usually referred to simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early Renaissance humanist.
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Poliziano
Agnolo (or Angelo) Ambrogini (14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known as Angelo Poliziano or simply Poliziano, anglicized as Politian, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance.
Punica (poem)
The Punica is a Latin epic poem in seventeen books in dactylic hexameter written by Silius Italicus (c. 28 – c. 103 AD), comprising some twelve thousand lines (12,202, to be exact, if one includes a probably spurious passage in book 8). Silvae and Punica (poem) are 1st-century books in Latin.
Reichenau Abbey
Reichenau Abbey was a Benedictine monastery on Reichenau Island (known in Latin as Augia Dives).
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Sallust
Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (86 –), was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family.
Sapphic stanza
The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines.
Saturnalia
Saturnalia is an ancient Roman festival and holiday in honour of the god Saturn, held on 17 December of the Julian calendar and later expanded with festivities through 19 December.
Silius Italicus
Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (c. 26 – c. 101 AD) was a Roman senator, orator and epic poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature.
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Sorrento
Sorrento (Surrentum) is a town overlooking the Bay of Naples in Southern Italy.
Statius
Publius Papinius Statius (Greek: Πόπλιος Παπίνιος Στάτιος) was a Latin poet of the 1st century CE.
Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (138–78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman.
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Thebaid (Latin poem)
The Thebaid (lit) is a Latin epic poem written by the Roman poet Statius. Silvae and Thebaid (Latin poem) are 1st-century books in Latin and poetry by Statius.
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Tivoli, Lazio
Tivoli (Tibur) is a town and comune in Lazio, central Italy, north-east of Rome, at the falls of the Aniene river where it issues from the Sabine hills.
Topos
In mathematics, a topos (plural topoi or, or toposes) is a category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or more generally: on a site).
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See also
1st-century books in Latin
- Achilleid
- Agricola (book)
- Apocolocyntosis
- Ars Amatoria
- De Medicina
- De aquaeductu
- De materia medica
- Epistulae ex Ponto
- Germania (book)
- Histories of Alexander the Great
- Institutio Oratoria
- Metamorphoses
- Natural History (Pliny)
- Naturales quaestiones
- Pharsalia
- Punica (poem)
- Remedia Amoris
- Satyricon
- Silvae
- Strategemata
- Thebaid (Latin poem)
- Tristia
Occasional poetry
- Bars Fight
- Carmen Saeculare
- Chatuva
- Epinikion
- Occasional poetry
- Praise Song for the Day
- Silvae
- Threnodia Augustalis
Poetry by Statius
- Achilleid
- Silvae
- Thebaid (Latin poem)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvae
Also known as Siluae.
, Parcae, Pergamon, Pietas, Pindar, Poggio Bracciolini, Poliziano, Punica (poem), Reichenau Abbey, Sallust, Sapphic stanza, Saturnalia, Silius Italicus, Sorrento, Statius, Sulla, Thebaid (Latin poem), Tivoli, Lazio, Topos.