Brill's Companion to Statius

In Brill's Companion to Statius, thirty-four newly commissioned chapters from internationally recognized experts provide a comprehensive overview of various approaches to arguably the most important poet of the Flavian period in Rome.

W. J. Dominik, Ph.D. (1989) in Classics, Monash University, Australia, is Professor of Classics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has published extensively on Roman literature and rhetoric, especially of the Flavian era, the classical tradition, and lexicography.C. E. Newlands, Ph.D. (1984) in Comparative Literature and Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley, is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She recently published Silvae: Book II (2011) and Statius: Between Rome and Naples (2012).K. Gervais, Ph.D. (2013) in Classics at the University of Otago, New Zealand, is preparing a commentary on Statius’ Thebaid 2. He has a particular interest in Roman violence, and has also published on Horace, textual criticism, and the films of Quentin Tarantino.Contributors: Frederick Ahl, Rhiannon Ash, Antony Augoustakis, Valery Berlincourt, Neil W. Bernstein, Susanna Braund, Pramit Chaudhuri, Christopher Chinn, Neil Coffee, Cecilia Criado, P. J. Davis, Jessica Dietrich, William J. Dominik, Robert R. Edwards, Randall T. Ganiban, Kyle Gervais, Bruce Gibson, Peter Heslin, Helen Kaufmann, Helen Lovatt, Agis Marinis, Charles McNelis, Dustin Mengelkoch, Laura Micozzi, K. Sara Myers, Carole E. Newlands, Victoria E. Pagan, Ruth Parkes, Francois Ripoll, Paul Roche, Luke Roman, Gianpiero Rosati, Meike Ruhl.