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GebondenEngels9780521867412
8-2-2007
This study focuses on ways in which Statius' epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the theme of internal discord in its narrative strategies. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521661874
17-2-2011
With the exception of a poem on the unscripted death of a lion in the Colosseum, Book II of Statius' Silvae is largely domestic in theme. It reflects the more private side of Roman culture, its pleasures, houses, gardens, friendships, and personal losses; it concludes with a provocative tribute to the poet Lucan. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521169110
9-9-2010
At the end of the Thebaid, Statius enjoins his epic 'not to compete with the divine Aeneid but rather to follow at a distance and always revere its footprints'. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521123617
19-11-2009
This study focuses on ways in which Statius' epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the theme of internal discord in its narrative strategies. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521147514
24-6-2010
A critical study of Statius' Thebaid, Dr Vessey combats the common notion that the Thebaid is simply an exercise in anachronism, an episodic narrative of the Theban saga. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521126113
14-1-2010
Statius' Silvae, written late in the reign of Domitian (AD 81–96), are a new kind of poetry that confronts the challenge of imperial majesty or private wealth by new poetic strategies and forms. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521808910
14-3-2002
Statius' Silvae, written late in the reign of Domitian (AD 81–96), are a new kind of poetry that confronts the challenge of imperial majesty or private wealth by new poetic strategies and forms. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521666237
17-2-2011
With the exception of a poem on the unscripted death of a lion in the Colosseum, Book II of Statius' Silvae is largely domestic in theme. It reflects the more private side of Roman culture, its pleasures, houses, gardens, friendships, and personal losses; it concludes with a provocative tribute to the poet Lucan. Meer
GebondenEngels9781009282215
30-5-2024
Moving beyond Virgil-centric readings of Statius' poetry, this book offers an innovative, intermedial, and Ovidian reading of the Thebaid, suggesting that the poem reworks both Virgil and Ovid's politically loaded myths and spatial narratives to scrutinise the new realities of Flavian Rome through the mythical story of Thebes. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781780932132
22-11-2012
PaperbackEngels9781904675112
3-6-2005
Its project - to tell the whole life of Achilles - was cut short by the poet's untimely death. In relating this story Statius explores the nature of gender and the limits of the epic genre, while playfully and wittily positioning himself in the epic - and wider - poetic tradition. Meer
GebondenEngels9783110229332
17-3-2011
GebondenEngels9783110194784
20-8-2007
GebondenEngels9783110191127
19-9-2006