2008
DOI: 10.1353/ajp.2008.0014
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Libertas Reverentiam Remisit: Politics and Metaphor in Statius Silvae 1.6

Abstract: This article argues that Statius Siluae 1.6 may be understood as an enactment of the politics of freedom in Flavian Rome. In describing Saturnalia and praising the emperor simultaneously, the poem engages with two different types of rhetoric and employs figurative language in an attempt to reconcile the two. Nevertheless, the literal meanings of these figures of speech come into play in the poem. In several instances analyzed here, the various ways of understanding libertas come into conflict. This literary co… Show more

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