Delicia-Children Revisited: the Evidence of Statius' Silvae Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The present chapter is meant to be a socio-cultural study on Roman pet children, based on a minute analysis of Statius' poetry. I will combine a traditional philological approach with recent insights from new literary theory. In this, I have been inspired by new literary approaches which focus on the so-called reader response, by New Historicism with its emphasis on very diverse source material and the interplay between ideals and social ...