Queer Consolation
Melior's Dead Boy in Statius' Silvae 2.1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9348554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paolo Asso (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 663-697 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Journal of Philology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9475 • E-ISSN: 1086-3168 |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/ajp.2010.a407741 |
| OpenAlex | W1479901456 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article examines Statius' Silvae 2.1 as a "frame tale," a way of seeing the social expectations for how grief and love between a man and a boy should be expressed. Melior grieves for the loss of his beloved Glaucias, who died at the age of twelve, but their rapport is doubly problematic from the standpoint of contemporary Roman morality, first because it extends from the paternal to the erotic, and second because Glaucias' servile status is ambiguous. In authorizing Melior to mourn his puer delicatus, the poem offers insight into the Roman understandings of sexuality, personal comportment, and public morality
Art · Consolation · Grief · Human sexuality · Literature · Morality · Poetry · Queer · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Gender Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |