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ISBN
9780521867412
Publication Year
2007
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War
Item Height
229mm
Author
Charles Mcnelis
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic
Literature
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
490g
Number of Pages
214 Pages

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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. At the same time that Statius reworks the Homeric and Virgilian epic traditions, he engages with Hellenistic poetic ideals as exemplified by Callimachus and the Roman Callimachean poets, especially Ovid. The result is a tension between the impulse towards the generic expectations of warfare and the desire for delay and postponement of such conflict. Ultimately, Statius adheres to the mythic paradigm of the mutual fratricide, but he continues to employ competing strategies that call attention to the fictive nature of any project of closure and conciliation. In the process, the poem offers a new mode of epic closure that emphasises individual means of resolution.

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Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521867412
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Book Title
Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War
Author
Charles Mcnelis
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2007
Number of Pages
214 Pages

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Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
490g

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Charles Mcnelis
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