Praise of a city: poetic representations of Naples and Rome in Statius' Silvae

• Grant number: 13/19840-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: November 01, 2013
• End date: August 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Sérgio de Vasconcellos
• Grantee: Erika Pereira Nunes Werner
• Supervisor: Felix Mundt
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Humboldt University, Germany
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/01107-0 - Statius, Siluae: Liber I. Portuguese translation and commentary., BP.PD

Abstract

This research project aims to analyze how the cities of Rome and Naples and their surroundings are represented directly or indirectly through the description of their architectural landmarks and other elements in their landscapes in Statius' Silvae. Present in most of these poems, these places seem to be both a poetic topos used in the encomium of the poems' addressees and also themselves a recipient of praise. Thus, it can be interesting to investigate how these cities are poetically represented by Statius in his Silvae and what is the function of these representations in the structure of the poems. (AU)