Silvae

About “Silvae”

The Silvae is a collection of Latin poetry by Publius Papinius Statius. It contains 32 poems divided into five books. Each book begins with a prose preface that introduces and dedicates the poems. The poems are written in various meters, including hexameters, hendecasyllables, and lyric meters. The themes of the poems offer insight into Domitian's Rome and the life of Statius. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)