I am like 99% certain I've cited him a couple times in the paper on Armor types and terminology I'm working on.
I have, I think for the first time in my entire life, had cause to cite Statius. Which I suppose means I have to stop using Statius as my example of 'the sort of author I never talk about' and find someone else. At least it was the Silvae and not the Thebaid.
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LITERALLY RIGHT WHERE I LEFT OFF A MONTH AGO: "The descriptor also appears elsewhere: in Statius' Thebaid, 11.542-543, he states that the "thorax" which is constructed with "plumis" gives ill protection to the groin."
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Can’t believe you’ve disrupted the Statius Quo.
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Well, a Statius Quote is pretty close, I guess...
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I remember a class on statius that I barely made it through. No fun to translate AT ALL
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I have no idea who Statius is or what the Thebiad is (I assume it's about Thebes?), but this tweet still cracks me up.
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Yep. It's about the mythological war between Etiocles and Polynices for the kingdom of Thebes. Incidentally anyone who has read The Purgatorio will have encountered Statius who gets a srar part in the poem.
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I'm not super familiar with Roman poets or poetry, but one thing that strikes me is how autobiographical they are. A poet says "I came from X" in a poem and we take that to be autobigraphical in a way that we wouldn't for say, Randall Jerrel's Ball Turret Gunner.
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Possibly because The Ball Turret Gunner is dead, and ghosts don't usually write poetry.
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