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Women in Statius' Thebaid
The women in Statius' Thebaid are striking characters. Statius gives them real roles to play; they don't just sit in the background of the epic waiting for the men to decide all the issues. Instead, they take active roles in the action and succeed in affecting the world around them. It is …
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Heroic Self-Fashioning in Statius' Thebaid
… own heroic identity in Statius’ epic poem, the Thebaid. The Thebaid is a poem with no single central character, but a central group of heroes of relatively equal standing. Among this large crowd, each individual attempts to prove their heroic worth by manipulating narratives about themselves. In …
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A commentary on selected passages of Statius, Thebaid 6
Book 6 of Statius’ *Thebaid* narrates the climax of the Argive army’s stay at Nemea: the funeral of the royal prince Opheltes, who had been killed by the serpent of Jupiter in Book 5, and the athletic games held in his honour. This thesis contains a line-by-line commentary on the opening section, …
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An Epic of Tragic Proportions: [In]forming the Politics of Statius’ Thebaid through Greek Tragic Intertext
<p>Statius’ epic poem, the Thebaid, has often been compared to Virgil’s Aeneid and many studies rightfully devote their attention to this text. I argue, however, that Greek tragedy equally plays an integral role in our reading and understanding of the Thebaid. Statius’ relationship with Greek …
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Into the woods: narrative studies in the 'Thebaid' of Statius with special reference to books IV-VI
… the Silvae add more to an appreciation of the Thebaid than has so far been appreciated. Chapter two traces the influence of the opening of Callimachus' Aetia III over the episode: the Victoria Berenices' aetiology of Herakles and Molorchus reconfigures our notions of the heroic, attributing new …
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Fama proditrix: Rumor in Ovid, Statius, and Prudentius
… of Statius’ personification of Fama in the Thebaid, and argues that the Thebaid has a particularly strong focus on the meta-poetic overtones of Fama. This is demonstrated through a study of poetic invocations in the Thebaid which employ the word Fama, as well as a close reading of Fama’s …
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Weeping and <i>Virtus</i> in Early Imperial Roman Epic
… Lucan’s <em>Bellum Civile</em>, and Statius’ <em>Thebaid</em>. I seek to understand judgments of and explanations for men’s tears within my sources, using philological analysis in a roughly dramaturgical framework. By comparing scenes where men weep in epic poetry to scenes in other forms of …
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Female characterisation in the epic poetry of P. Papinius Statius
… an evaluation of female characterisation in the Thebaid and Achilleid, as a positive contribution to the rehabilitation programme described in the quotation above. Because Statius' poetry properly observes the ancient literary convention of imitatio, an examination of any feature thereof …
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Transgressive figures: Monsters and monstrosity in Flavian epic
… argues that the monsters in Statius’ Thebaid and Silius’ Punica both embody and reproduce dynamics of Flavian culture. These poems are taken together as exemplars of the culture during the reign of Domitian specifically. I conduct close, sustained, textual analysis of instances wherein …
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Epic of Civil War in Lucan, Statius and Silius Italicus
… first century AD: Lucan’s Pharsalia, Statius’ Thebaid and Silius’ Punica. A special contribution is given to the understanding of the Domitianic poems, the Thebaid and the Punica, in the light of their late-Neronian model, the Pharsalia. At the heart of this project lies the idea that Lucan …
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Nature, imperialism, and the ethics of war in Flavian epic
… Silius Italicus’ Punica, and Papinius Statius’ Thebaid use human encounters with nature to reflect on the morality of their poems’ central characters. Interactions and conflicts with nature occur at programmatic points in the poems, further indicating their importance for the narratives. This …
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Statius' Silvan Poetics: A Synoptic Reading of the Silvae
… mora, of the composition of the epic poems Thebaid and Achilleid. The entirety of this study looks to illustrate the coherence of the Silvae, a poetic work that not only has a clear internal poetic agenda, but also firmly defends its place in the framework of Statius’ oeuvre and the literary …
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Interpretatio Hiberniana: Classical Influences in Medieval Irish Depictions of Otherworldly Characters
… Togail na Tebe (the Irish version of Statius’s Thebaid), as well as a host of Otherworldly female characters in other works of Irish literature. Chapter 4 surveys the appearances of gods and supernatural figures in the Classical adaptation texts. It identifies similarities and differences in …