 Juvenal is thought to extensively lampoon Statius' type of court poetry in his fourth satire on the turbot of Domitian, but he also mentions the immense popularity of Statius' recitations in Satire 7.82ff.In late antiquity, the "Thebaid" which was by then a classic received a commentary by a Lactantius Placidus.Throughout the Middle Ages, the "Thebaid" remained a popular text, inspiring a 12th-century French romance and works by Boccaccio and Chaucer.