Ana Lóio, Ph.D. (2012), University of Lisbon, is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at that university. She has published articles and book-chapters on Statius’ Silvae and Martial’s epigrams.Contributors are: Giancarlo Abbamonte, Federica Bessone, Kathleen M. Coleman, Bruce Gibson, Ana Lóio, Carole Newlands, Antonino Pittà, Luke Roman, Gianpiero Rosati.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Commenting on Statius’ Silvae: No Place for Dead WoodAna LóioPart 1 The (First) Rediscovery1 Roman Humanism and the Study of the Silvae in the Fifteenth CenturyGiancarlo Abbamonte2 Poliziano’s (Commentary on Statius’) Silvae: Between Imitation and ExegesisLuke RomanPart 2 The Sequel: A New Age of Disclosure3 The Role of Translation in Commentary on Statius’ SilvaeBruce Gibson4 Notes from a New Commentary on Statius’ SilvaeAntonino Pittà5 Commenting on the Silvae: Visuality, Versatility, VerisimilitudeKathleen M. ColemanPart 3 A Path to the Future: Statian Readings in Augustan Poetry6 Errant Poetics: Rethinking a Comment on Silvae 2.2.83–85Carole Newlands7 Commenting on an Ovidian Model: An Authorized Desertion in Silvae 1.2Gianpiero Rosati8 The Hut and the Temple: Private Aetiology and Augustan Models in Silvae 3.1Federica Bessone9 Untying the Commentator’s Knot: Bonds and Lacunae in Silvae 4.4 and Propertius 2.1Ana LóioIndex

"This book has a claim upon the notice of all who are curious about the role of the commentary in classical learning, as well as those with a more general interest in the Silvae of Statius. (...) Ana Lóio’s introduction offers a brief but detailed history of exegetical scholarship on the Silvae. (...) In an exemplary synthesis of literary and textual criticism Ana Lóio examines two vexing passages in Statius’ Silvae (4.4.93–105) and Propertius’ Elegies (2.1.35–8), each concerned with proverbial friendships and the relations between poet and patron."Matthew Hardy in BMCR 2024.05.02