abstract
- Carole E. Newlands The early reception of the Silvae: from Statius to Sidonius ; The reception of Statius' Silvae begins with Statius himself. But although the ; Silvae heavily inform the poetry of late antiquity, there is virtual silence in our ; literary sources until the fifth century poet Sidonius Apollinaris explicitly mentions ; them.1 Nonetheless, as I shall discuss in this article, both poets prove important ; commentators on these new experiments in occasional poetry. In particular, the ; comments of ...